After driving more than 3800 miles and spending almost a week in the beautiful states of Utah and Arizona we are back in the Seattle area. Saw some extraordinary places (pictures to follow depending on time available to sort/upload them) and have a few funny stories about the experience. We’ve sampled summer as it should [...]
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21 Jun 10
Edward Weston
Does the name Edward Payson Weston say anything to you? I thought so. Well, this gentleman who lived between 1839-1929 is responsible for some feats that are simply remarkable. To make a long story short he is famous for… walking (The Father of Modern Pedestrianism as Wikipedia describes him). The one piece of information that [...]
8 Jun 10
The Results (Losing weight saga – Epilogue)
For the last past months I’ve randomly written blog posts in the “Losing weight saga” category. In these posts I’ve either bitched about some weight loss aspect (I love complaining when something is bothering me, but I’ve tried keeping this part to a minimum) or tried to share a certain aspect that I’ve learned during [...]
26 May 10
Steps to a Better Me – Part 5
All steps to a better me can be found here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/tag/steps-to-a-better-me/ Step 5 is realizing that what we call normality, in almost every aspect of it, is unhealthy. By normality I mean what most people do by default or think that should be the default choice. Lately this have been a favorite pet subject of [...]
15 May 10
Cereal Label Fail
Here is the label: And the fail is the way the difference between cereal with milk and cereal without milk is listed. Hey Kellogg’s, you have 2 columns in there. Use them to list the nutritional content in both cases (you do that for vitamins and it works, right?). Don’t be dumb and put this [...]
29 Apr 10
Steps to a Better Me – Part 4
All steps to a better me can be found here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/tag/steps-to-a-better-me/ Step 4 in becoming a better person is learning to deal with stress and how to keep stress level to a minimum. Today everyone expects you to get more work done in a shorter period of time. We have moved past the point in [...]
27 Apr 10
Steps to a Better Me – Part 3
All steps to a better me can be found here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/tag/steps-to-a-better-me/ The next step that could make you a better person is educating yourself about nutrition. Although this stuff should be superfluous to anyone, the sad truth is that most people don’t have a clue about how to eat correctly. I believe that the first [...]
10 Apr 10
The Broken Shopping Cart
I’ve blogged about different supermarket related things in the past (here and here). Now, since I’m going to do it again, I start thinking that I have a small obsession with supermarkets. You see, they represent the essence of the American Dream and are part of the 4 big essential activities that you do: eat, [...]
30 Mar 10
Steps to a better me – Part 2
All part of steps to a better me can be found here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/tag/steps-to-a-better-me/ The next step that could make you a better person is giving up TV. I know that it sounds stupid at first, but this move totally makes sense to me. I stopped owning a TV 4 years ago. This is good because [...]
20 Mar 10
Steps to a Better Me – Part 1
Small things. Some small things can have a big impact on different aspects of our lives. They can help us be more productive, live a healthier life or simply make us enjoy some details that in normal circumstances we would have found irrelevant. Lately I’ve been thinking about such “improvements” and the effect they can [...]
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