from tfd.com:
con·tent·ment
n.
1. The state of being contented; satisfaction.
2. A source of satisfaction
This is a vast topic, to be sure. I hesitate to dive in without first explaining my utter lack of authority on the subject, especially in regard to practical application. So I won’t be solving the problem in this post. Sorry. The best I can do is bring it to mind Read more »
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service. It gives the author a mere 140 characters to work with for each post. (find my personal posts at twitter.com/wessf)
Below you will find that Steve Murphy and Micah Foreman and I have taken on this same 140 character restriction for ourselves, submitting several micro-stories apiece.
Feel free to post a comment or twitter your own stories in the comments. Enjoy. Read more »
I’ve been on this “Slow-Carb” diet now for about two and a half weeks, and I just wanted to give a brief report on my first impressions. First of all, I could tell from the beginning that the slight change in diet was making me less hungry - this is because foods like beans, veggies, chicken, and eggs are so filling, and they take longer to digest than foods higher on the [somewhat mystical?] Glycemic Index (foods like bread, sugar, cereal, and the like, which I am avoiding on this diet).
By the way, I am edging my way to make this my permanent diet - just want to get the hang of it first. The best part about it is that once a week (usually Sunday or Saturday for me) is a “free day” where anything goes (or as I like to think of it, Snickers-bar day! - Snickers bars, ironically, are fairly low on the Glycemic Index; it’s just that they are high in fat).
Anyway, I am still tracking my calories and my weight. I haven’t been aiming for any particular calorie limit per day or anything - just tracking it - and my preliminary assessment is that it’s working. I am seeing a gradual decrease in the amount of calories per day that I am consuming (easier to see with a moving average on the old spreadsheet) and [again, gradually] have seen a decrease in my weight (a little over a pound - not yet conclusive but, seeing as I haven’t been “making” myself eat less, it is a great start). More later (hope this is interesting to anyone but myself).
Recently, happening upon this post (one of many fascinating posts on a fascinating blog), I was spurred into action, finding out everything I could online about something called a “Slow-Carb” diet. I won’t bore you with the details, of which I am only just beginning to grasp (google would be a fine place to start for more info if you’re interested). The broad strokes are that eating carbohydrates high on the Glycemic Index is not good for you and eating foods low on the Glycemic Index is good for you. The difference between the somewhat popular low-carb diet
and this aptly named slow-carb diet is that low-carb diets aim to avoid carbohydrates altogether, while slow-carb diets are just picky about what kinds of carbohydrates to eat [hint: slow-burning carbs].
The point of this post was not to bore you with all that [although all that was necessary in order to get on with this next part], the point is: my wife, Tammy, and I have been on this slow-carb diet for a little over a week now [doing well, thank you], and I have been keeping up with my weight and my caloric intake fairly well and plan on reporting back periodically on my progress. So, the challenge is to stick to the diet and documentation, and report back my results.
I guess that’s it.
–wessf
With the intention of bettering one another literarily (which isn’t actually a word - not yet anyway), a long-running challenge has been mutually issued by the creators of Popular Blur. The challenge is simple: to read all of the top one hundred novels of all time.
A few issues have arisen from this vaguely issued challenge regarding some of the particulars. First of all, there is no actual time frame attached to this goal. To that, I can only say we were too chicken to do such a thing, and we had no idea we would take this thing that seriously anyway. Moving on. Secondly, there was no agreed upon list of novels (turns out, there are plenty of these lists). 
That’s right, we agreed to do something but did not agree on what that something was. [Insert comment here about hindsight being revelatory and all that.] And finally, there was never any mention of reward for achievement or punishment for utter failure (although, again, since there was no stated deadline . . .). Follow along at your own pace [if you dare] - updates of our own progress will be added to the blog.
You can find the rest of this page in the sidebar titled, “100 Novels“