http://www.frogtoggle.com Words. Lots of em. Guaranteed. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:02:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've read a few of these journal entries, you'll have learned a few key things about me - chief among them that i am perpetually overweight, and constantly hatching doomed schemes to fix that. i'm like the Wil E. Coyote of healthy active living. Instead of just ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=173 i stopped writing here a few years ago because my life completely changed. i put in a token post about once a year, in the vain hope that i could rekindle a dead journal and get excited about writing again, but the new demands that were placed on me ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=172 Just as i was never picked to play an "important" baseball position in gym class when it came time to choose teams, i was also never picked for Jesus in any church passion play during Easter. That's because i am fat, and Jesus was not. And i'm not talking about ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=171 i hurt myself last week. It was one of those bad luck moments that i've rarely had in my generally charmed. i've never broken a bone, i've never been diagnosed with cancer, and i've never had stitches. One of those is no longer true. i had just finished dropping my ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=169 i'm in San Francisco again. It's still a far cry from what i pictured in my earlier post, but i will say that i like it. i like the place very much. There are just as many homeless people here this year as there were last year, and they're ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=168 i've been sucked through a TimeHole. That's where you wake up one day to discover that an entire year of your life has sped by, and you didn't experience a second of it. Oh sure - you have memories of everything that happened. You know that last year, you ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=164 A fun game that people play when reading the little slips of paper in fortune cookies is to add "in bed" to the end of the sentence. My wife and i just ate some fortune cookies. Her fortune: "Being aware of your fears will improve your life." "In bed!" i ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=167 i had my left arm amputated today. Sort of. Replace "left arm" with "computer" and "amputated" with "sent away to the computer infirmary with a faulty power supply" and you get a clearer picture. i still have my actual left arm, though i may as well not have it for all ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=166 It was 1982, or something. The less remembered about the early 80's the better, i think. Anyway, the important thing was that i was a kid and Cabbage Patch Kids were hotter than a lock of Farrah Fawcett's hair (which, incidentally, weighed about three pounds. Fast Fact!). i ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=163 There i was - racing home after a hard-fought battle for the hottest Christmas toy this year, a "video-game" console called the Nintendo Wii, when i began to feel unwanted pangs of Christmas cheer. i'm talking about some full-on nauseating prime time stop motion-animated singing mouse-style puppetrous heart-warming Hallmark ... http://www.frogtoggle.com/?p=162