Met someone.   

She's awesome.     

And beautiful.     

And smart.   

And funny.   

We have a great chemistry thus far.     

I finally broke my almost 6 year dateless streak this morning when we went out for breakfast and then went to the gym  (she's into working out too).     

We held hands for forever it seemed.       

She says I give great hugs (she does too).  Thanks Bean & Suze.       

I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.       

I'm quite giddy at the moment.   

So yeah, this stray cat, barely more than a kitten, showed up outside my apartment a week and a half ago meowing his little head off.  When I went outside to investigate he walked right in my apartment and pretty much set up shop.  Being an old softy I decided to keep him until I could find his owners as surely, a cat this well groomed and seemingly taken care of had to belong to somebody. 

I hung up some fliers by the community mailboxes and expected to be contacted pretty quickly, but nobody came forward and nobody at work wanted him either.  After a week I was told by my apartment complex's property manager that I had to get rid of the cat or pay the hefty $300 pet fee plus an extra $10 a month in rent. 

I called around to some no-kill animal shelters, but none of them were taking animals and I didn't want to give him to animal control as they euthanize after 30 days so I swallowed hard and decided to cough up the cash to keep him.  Thankfully, they're letting me pay it in a couple of installments, but it's still a really sucky amount of money to pay for a stray that I still have to take to the vet and get a check-up.  Hopefully that's not too expensive...

Anyway, I haven't named him yet and I'm looking for suggestions.  I have until Saturday as that is the day that I go to my property manager to give her all the cat's info including his name for their records so I'm looking for ideas.

I was originally gonna call him Buckley after Jeff Buckley, but that's a much better name for a dog I think so I don't want to waste it on this cat in case I ever get a dog.

Some of my other thoughts...

Dunder or Mifflin...maybe Dundy?  Schrute?  Dwight?

Spike just because it's not a typical cat name.

Caedmon after one of my favorite bands.

Jubal from Genesis 4:21, nice obscure music reference there.

Oooh, maybe combine a couple and call him Caedmon Jubal or CJ for short.  Mwuhahahaha!  I really like that.  Hmmmm...maybe I don't need ya'll's help after all.  Well, give me some names anyway and maybe you'll have some that I like better.

So here's a little thing I Photoshopped together to give a better idea of my fitness progress to date.  I've got some other stuff to blog about, but I'll do that later when I have more time.



Also, just for fun, here's one I like to call Gangsta Flexed. 



[UPDATE]  Per Knifewrench's suggestion, I like to call this one, "Let It Snizzow All Up In the Tennesizzy"

As those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile know, my hairline has been going south for the past couple of years.  A couple of days ago I procured some electric clippers as keeping the hair short is supposedly decent camouflage for decreasing follicle density, plus the clippers cost the same as a haircut with a generous tip so they've pretty much paid for themselves already. 

Of course, once you buy electric clippers, you have to try them out.  So I did...and kind of went a lot shorter than I meant to.  I wore that look for the past couple of days, but tonight I decided that since I was so close anyway, I was just gonna go for it and see what I look like underneath it all.  If I didn't like it, it will grow back...well most of it anyway.

Whaddya think?  And remember this is for posterity so..be honest.

But first; for some reference, here is what I used to look like a few years back...



And now...



I'm not sure yet, as it's all really new to me, but I think I'm kind of digging it although...ya'll don't think I look like some kind of a neo-Nazi skinhead do I?  If that's the case, I'm definitely going to have to grow it back as best as possible.

Ok, so here are some current pics of me (WARNING!!! SHIRTLESS FAT GUY...WHO COULD CRUSH YOU LIKE A GIRLY MAN AHEAD!!!).  It has now been a little over a year since I started my new fitness regime and here are the results so far...
















...I'm just giving you time to look away here...
















...Okay, if you're still around, here it goes.  As you can see, I still have a long way to go, but considering where I started, I think I've made a lot of progress...