Dear Meat, I must say so long to you, my old t-boney friend. Tomorrow I am leaving on a journey of vegetarianism. It will not be easy, in fact I foresee it being very hard, but I have to leave you. Tonight, let us have one last fling, a lusty spectacle of carnivorous rumination. I will see you at a local sushi restaurant. I will be wearing a blue shirt, I look forward to seeing you there. If I don’t see you there, I’ll assume that we are officially over.

Jered Future vegetarian.

After spending Saturday out and about, Esther and I decided to focus on our home and ourselves. Saturday was not a great Weight Watchers day, we ate out a lot, most of which was not points friendly. Sunday, we decided to get back on the WW horse, that meant after brewing some coffee, we went to the Nolan Trail and did the whole 5 miles. I have always wondered why the Nolan Trail was advertised in a lot of brochures, and I have finally found out why. It is a fantastic 5 mile loop through the woods surrounding the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News.

The Nolan Trail, originally uploaded by Tobyotter.

After our long walk, the conversation that ensued essentially went as follows:
Esther: “We should get our backyard in shape.”
Jered: “Yeah, wouldn’t it be great to have our friends over and not have to hide the back yard?”
Esther: “Yeah, we should get our backyard in shape.”

So that is how most of our Sunday was spent. A whole bunch of tilling and weeding and planting. You can see a diagram of our backyard below, it is shaping up very nicely.

Tonight, a good friend came over for dinner and some evening entertainment. Casey was flying solo today, almost in more that one way. He was supposed to catch a flight to Idaho this morning, but was turned away at the gate for arriving too close to the time of departure. It really wasn’t was his fault, security at ORF is horrible and the parking situation needs a major revamp. His travel plans were not for fun, he’s actually going to be late to his grandmother-in-law’s funeral. I know he wanted to be there to support his wife, who flew out there yesterday.

After some great Lavish bread chips made by Esther, we all started playing Wii. It was incredibly fun! We paused half way through a bowling game to have some excellent home-enhanced pizza, and shortly after decided we are starting the Wii Sports League. When our friends get back from Idaho, we should have our controllers and I have already looked up double elimination brackets, so we are set to wii our hearts out. Honestly the more people playing, the more fun it is.

Do you have any Wii game suggestions? Preferably multi-player…?

Esther recently bought some political magnetic poetry and today when I got home from work, I put my best coffee house poet forward. Here are some of the things that I came up with.

The ballot is stronger than the world of the Internet.

Get out of the great state between a mother and child.

I discourage the influence of this modern world in your country by the military, the industrial complex and a giant sucking sound that depends on an axis of evil.

Delay ought to be fear

By passing an idea, you can not stop poverty.

Facts can do for NAFTA what the Soviet Union did for that country.

The importance of your definintion of “other priorities,” four years ago, is the only thing I’ve looked at with lust.

I know that I haven’t been doing Haiku Tuesday, so I thought this might make up a little bit.

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