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Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 3:28 PM by Robby Roberts
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Route: -- Elev. Avg: 1229 ft Location: Gainesville, GA, Elev. Gain: -3 ft Date: 01/22/10 Up/Downhill: [+108/-111] Time: 03:01 PM Difficulty: 1.3 / 5.0 Weather: Cloudy 46 F temp; 87% humidity 46 F heat index; winds SW 6 mph Map
Distance: 1.00 miles Time: 0:22:21 Speed: 2.6 mph Pace: 23' 05 /mi Calories: 234 
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Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation
Gainactual +/- avg actual +/- avg end 23' 04 -0' 00 2.6 +0.0 +4 ft Versus average of 2.6 mph: Slower Faster
Walk 02:39 PM
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BIM Active
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 3:17 PM by Robby Roberts
OK, I'm trying out another new program on my BlackBerry. And, it's more than that, this is a free service that supports a lot of different phones from different cell providers.
It's Called BIM Active. What it does it allow you to track your outdoor activites (Walks, Runs, Bike Rides....), caclulate distance, time, calories burned, and keep a log of them. It will even publish a "Blog" of them on their site. Here's mine.
I have linked my blog there, to this Blog. While the formatting is a little different here than what it displays there, It's basically the same info. I'm going to start using this to help motivate me and keep me more accountable as spring get here.
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FourSquare
Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 8:38 PM by Robby Roberts
OK, well I just found out about FourSquare, and well, I like it. It seems fun. Almost like a cross between Geocaching, Facebook and Twitter.
What is FourSquare? Here's what they have on their "HELP" page:
What is foursquare?
foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. We aim to build things to not only help you keep up with the places your friends go, but that encourage you to discover new places and challenge you to explore your neighborhood in new ways.
Basically, you check in when you are out. Kind of like a Tweet on Twitter. You can do it from your mobile phone @ m.foursquare.com, you can do it by TXT message, or, they have an app for iPhones, Android Phones, BlackBerry Phones and the Palm Pre phones.
You earn points for checking in, and badges for doing certian things.
It's all in good fun and meant for you to link up with your friends and compete for points and badges.
If you join, be sure to add me as a friend!! Just be sure to link it to your FaceBook or Twitter Account, and have me as a friend on one of them to find me.
I'm Back!!!!!!
Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 9:16 AM by Robby Roberts
OK, I've let this sit idle WAY too long. I've had myself in a bit of a personal funk, I put back on about 25 lbs of the weight I lost... It's been a rough year.
But, I've met someone that has changed my life. The funk is gone! I'm hitting a local gym, 4, sometimes 6 times a week. I'm back on the diet. And, I'm getting ready to move to a new, hopefully much better place.
What really got me was the election of Obama. It really just killed my hope for this country. But, last nights victory in Mass, a REPUBLICAN taking the seat held by Teddy Kenndy for so many years, in the MOST LIBERAL state in the union, has re-energized me! Let's hope that Scott Brown's victory is repeated in many other Congressional Mid-term elections this year!
F.O.O.L.'s.... are you one?
Posted on Monday, August 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM by Robby Roberts
Welcome to the "Followers Of Obama Liberals" (better known as F.O.O.L's) As a F.O.O.L. you are expected to give everything you make to the government without question and accept whatever services they choose to provide you without question.
Please say the F.O.O.L Oath with me.....
"I love you,
You Love me,
Let's
screw over our economy.
With a great big chunk of my taxes given free.
Won't
you please support me?"
F.O.O.L's are not allowed to think for themselves. The government knows better how to spend your money, what kind of car you should drive, how your healthcare should be handled, and what foods you should/should not eat.
F.O.O.L's are not allowed to go fishing to feed themselves. If a F.O.O.L does go fishing, he is expected to give all of his/her fish to President of the local F.O.O.L Chapter and have him divide the fish evenly among all members. It does not matter if the other members like or want fish, they will be given their fair share
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The above is written as parody. However, it's NOT funny at all. Simply because, too many fool's voted for a man to run our country because of his personailty, or the color of his skin, NOT based on his political record.
Before anyone calls me racist, let me ask you this. Did you vote for Obama because he was black? Then you are just as racist as people that voted against him because he was black. Pot, meet kettle.... I voted against him based on his history in politics, his own words & his stand on key issues. I could have cared less about his skin color!
Do you really want the Government deciding what's best for you? For your health? Do you LIKE going to the DMV? Do you LIKE going to the Social Security office?? Health care does need reform, but the government has never proven themselves capable of running anything effectively.
Picture the D.O.T. work crews, always running behind, over budget, more supervisors than workers... you know the image. Now, THOSE GUYS will be running the health care system! THINK ABOUT IT!
As for the fish. Here's how it breaks down. Let's say
I go fishing with 2 of my buddies, Joe and Jim. I catch my limit of 6
trout, Jim Catches 3, but Joe caught NONE (Mainly because he goofed off
and didn't even try!). It's dinner time, and we agreed that dinner would
be what we caught during the day. Meaning, I get 6 fried trout, Jim
get's 3, but Joe is sittiing there with an empty plate. HOW does the
situation progress??
Socialists, like Obama, would look at it like this: I am a bad person for having 6 fish on my plate. It does not matter that I took the time to find the best fishing hole or that I worked hard to catch them. No, in their eyes, 6 fish are more than I need. Since there are 3 of us, and 9 fish, it's only fair for them to take 3 fish off my plate, give them to Joe who did nothing all day and say we are all even.
Conservatives would leave it to ME to look at my friend and choose to say "Hey Joe, want some fish" and let me give him as much as I want to. Both cases, we all wind up with 3 fish. But, in this case, I was allowed to decide for myself where MY FISH that I EARNED went to. Yes, there is that chance that I could be greedy and Joe could do without supper. Guess what.... That's Joe's problem and maybe sitting there, his tummy growling, watching me and Jim enjoy our fish will motivate him to go catch some of his own.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry again.
Don't like that? Think about an Easter Egg Hunt. If your child finds more eggs than another child, do you punish them for it? Do you take the eggs from them? IF you hide 50 eggs, and have 5 kids, but only 4 hunting them, do you tell the 4 kids they are only allowed to find 10 eggs each? And do you tell them that, if they find anymore, they have to put them in the basket of the kid sitting on the porch doing nothing? That's how a Socialist Easter Egg hunt works.
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More Changes
Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 1:40 PM by Robby Roberts
Well, changes are going on so fast I can't keep up with them..... Between my parents' health issues and choosing to leave my home church, things are a spinnin' in my world right now.
A Walk In The Park
Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM by Robby Roberts
Well, I'm trying to get back out and walk more. Today, I needed to blow off some steam, so I put on my iPod and headed up to Little Mullberry Park. Sometimes, I get a friend to walk with me. But, not today. I had an idea. my BlackBerry takes nice pictures, and has a 2GB memory card in it. SO, I started snapping away. Now, it's not like it's a feature rich camera, but I've been pleased with the results. I took a few of the best shots and put the together in a video slideshow for you guys.
Little Mullberry Park 04/26/2009
Been a while...
Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 at 12:48 PM by Robby Roberts
OK, so I've not been blogging like I should. Long story short...
-I rushed into a relationship with someone who was not who they
pretended to be. They used me, they took advantage of my kindness and
generosity, and worse, they made me not want to trust people anymore.
-I've
let my diet go and put about 20 lbs back on.
-I "Quit" the teams I
was serving on at Church due to burn out.
But, that person is now moving out of my life, I'm back on my service teams at church, and, I've started walking and back on my diet, again.
Give me some time to get my thoughts together again and I'll be back.
In the mean time, you can follow me on Twitter to!
www.twitter.com/wolfmanrobby
Jimmy Carter 2.0
Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 1:34 PM by Robby Roberts
You know, they make a lot of valid points.... ‘Jimmy Carter’ tag has Obama wincing
Flying
Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 at 8:34 AM by Robby Roberts
Maybe it's mid life crisis, maybe it's because I've always dreamed of flying like Superman, or "The Rocketeer," but this is calling my name.... How much are wing suits?????
Check
out this video
Flying
at over 100mph!
One Nation Under GOD!
Posted on Friday, January 02, 2009 at 2:29 PM by Robby Roberts
I got this in an email from a friend today...
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
I was prompted to reply with this...
The problem is not having God in the pledge… the problem is God is not where your hand goes when you say the pledge – the Heart.
This country has not been ONE Nation UNDER God in many, many years. We are a nation divided in trying to be politically correct, in trying to appease those that do not believe in God, or worse, those that believe in a God that would have them commit mass murder in their names.
I’ll defer to our founding fathers…..
Thomas Jefferson
1781 - Notes on the State of
Virginia, Query 18
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people
that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be
violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.
Reference:
Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (352)
George Washington 1789 - Thanksgiving Proclamation
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and
humbly to implore his protection and favors.
Reference:
George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (543)
James Madison 1825 - letter to Frederick Beasley
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to
the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments
which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with
too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed
with it.
Reference: Writings of Madison, Hunt,
ed., vol. 9 (230)
John Adams
1776 - Thoughts on Government
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated
seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver
of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained,
in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner
most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his
religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the
public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.
Reference: The Works of John Adams, Charles Adams, ed., 221.
Benjamin Franklin
1787 - Motion for Prayers in
the Constitutional Convention
And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we
no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the
longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God
governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the
Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise
without his Aid?
Reference: Franklin:
Collected Works, Lemay, ed. (1138)
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Weight Loss Help
Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 11:33 AM by Robby Roberts
OK, I get a lot of questions about my weight loss. Honestly, there is one big secret.... LOGGING EVERYTHING. What I eat, what I do (excercise), my weight....
I use a program called "CalorieKing Nutrition and Exercise Manager" that I bought for $45 last year. Let me just say, I highly recommend it. What this program did for me was make me realize WHAT I was eating. I mean, to come home and log that I ate a Double Quarter Pounder w/Cheese and Large Fries for lunch and see my carbs, calories and fat count shoot into the red, well beyond my "Limits" for the day would blow my mind. And, I would still have to do soemthing for dinner. What that did was make me start thingking about foods BEFORE I ate them. I made me change my eating habits. No, this program does not tell you what you can or can't eat. It just keeps track of what you do eat and makes you think about it.
Now, there were other programs out there, but CalorieKing just gave me the biggest bang for the buck. However, the software program from FitDay.com came in a close second. Now, I know a lot of you are on a budget, or just don't want to spend the money. Well, the people over at FitDay have recently begun offering a "Lite" version of their program for FREE. It's web based, nothing to download. It does not have all the bells and whistles, but the basics are there. I can tell you, if they had this last year, I would have used it instead of plopping out the $45 for CalorieKing.
I still wholly endorse the CalorieKing software, and recommend it. But, for my friends that are wanting to lose 10-100 lbs, and want something cheap or free to try, give the FitDay Free version a try!
Running on God Power
Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 7:37 PM by Robby Roberts
Today Pastor Tony was talking about how we have to depend on God's power to help us, how we can't run on our own power for long. I've never doubted that. What, I never knew was just how long someone could run on God Power only.
See, my batteries feel dead... not dead as in they need to be recharged, but dead as in they won't hold a charge of their own anymore. Like an old laptop I have that runs fine on the external power supply, but as soon as you pull that plug, it sputters and dies. I've been running on nothing BUT God's power for a couple of years now. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning, cause I know that I lost the will to do it myself a long time ago. It's what dives me to work out, and to lose weight. If it had been up to me, I probably would have put ON 130 lbs in this last year, not lost it.
No, I have not run off of my own power at all for about 4 years now. My batteries are dead, worn out, shattered and leaking acid...
Just pray that no one trips over my God power cord and unplugs me before I can find replacement batteries...
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2 years....
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 8:14 PM by Robby Roberts
Two years ago today (09/22/2006) my then wife of 10 1/2 years, who was pregnant with our first child, and I signed the closing paperwork on our first home. We were excited. Yeah, we were out of pocket over $20,000 down payment and closing, but we didn't care! We had a new home and a baby on the way
Less than a month later, on October 14th, we lost the baby. The same week that Patti lost her (Step)Grandmother to cancer.
Less than a year after our closing (Labor Day, 2007), Patti walks out the door. I won't go into details, but our marriage was over. By December, 2007, the divorce was final.
In March of 2008, I find out that I may be a daddy, but those hopes are
dashed not long after the little fella is born in July.
And, how
do I "Celebrate" my 2 years after closing? Cleaning my belongings out of
the house. I have been given until October 18th, then I must turn the
keys over to the mortgage company.
I sit here writing this in my "New place" - an 11x12 room with nothing of my own my my clothes, my computer, my cats and my TV. Everything I own is packed into storage. The bed I am laying my head on is not even mine. I have moved it all my self. No help from my so called friends. No response to emails or phone calls. Emails some claim they never got... but I have the Read Receipts that say otherwise.
Well, there is ONE thing else I have here that is my own... the tears running down my cheek.....
Making Changes....
Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 1:36 PM by Robby Roberts
OK, I've decided to tinker with the look of my blog... ignore any funky formatting over the next few days as I experiment with different templates, then tweak them to my liking...
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I'm still alive....
Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 8:30 PM by Robby Roberts
I'm sorry it's been nearly 2 months since my last post. Things have been very hectic in my life, and not hectic good... Health Scares and surgery for my dad, betrayed by yet someone else I thought cared about me (Someone that's been part of my life for 20 years), the birth of a son I wanted but who's not mine, I've lost my home to forclosure, and then, this weekend topped the cake.
Over the years, I've helped many friends move. The other week, I emailed the ones I felt I could count on to repay the favor, since I'm all alone now. I know the email went out, as I did have a few replies about being out of town for the holiday weekend (As expected). And, I could see in their replies, the names of everyone I sent it to. But, I did not get back a single offer to help... yesterday morning, it was just me, my fathers Tahoe/trailer and a pair of handtrucks. Three loads to storage, and so much more to do.
Edited on: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:22 PM
Who am I?
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 1:53 PM by Robby Roberts
Who am I?
My life has given me a lot of time and reason to ponder that question over the last 4 years. I can say, I still do not know the answer. But, here is what I do know:
- I'm loyal, to a fault. My friends are my most valuable asset and I stand BESIDE them 100% (not behind, beside!)
- I'm driven. My weight loss has shown me that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!
- I'm stubborn! I get something in my mind, it's hard for me to give it up. Heck, you can hit me with an SUV and it won't stop me. It might slow me down, but it won't stop me. I know, it's been tried!
- I'm a lover, I just don't have anyone to share my love with.
- I'm a big kid at heart.
- I'm too quick to give my trust to someone up front, but slow to give it back if it's every betrayed.
- I'm a man of my word. I make a commitment or promise, I do everything in my power to keep it.
- I'm mean what I say. I don't play word games, I don't tell people what I think they want to hear. I don't try to manipulate people with my words.
- I'm brutally honest. You ask my opinon, I'm going to give it to you, even if its not what I think you want to hear.
- I'm not afraid to cry when I need to & I know how to be strong when someone needs me to be.
- I'm scared of what's around the corner, but that does not stop me from stepping around the corner to face it.
- I like chocolate more than I like to admit.
- I like Elvis more than I WANT to admit.
- I'm not afraid to admit that I enjoyed watching "Chick Flicks with my ex... Not because of the movie, but because it was something to do together.
- I can cook, sew and I'm not too bad at giving pedicures!
- I hate a messy house, but I'm too lazy to clean!
- I'm easily amused, but even more easily bored!
Do you have anything to add?? Email me!
What's a post about who I am without a baby picture when I was just a pup of a wolfman?? ;)
A Messiah In Our Midst?
Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 at 11:45 AM by Robby Roberts
An interesting article from the Patriot Post today.....
A Messiah In Our Midst?
By Jonah Goldberg
Is Barack Obama the Messiah? Before we answer that question, let me vent for a moment. In 2000 I was cruelly denied the Pulitzer despite being the only columnist in America to ask the pressing question: Is Al Gore an alien? The evidence was there for all to see. He was born nine months after the mysterious alien sighting at Roswell, N.M. His weird syntax and verbal rhythms are otherworldly. He often refers to “earth” or “this planet” as if he’s just passing through, and he once angrily complained to the Washington Post that it had printed a picture of the earth from outer space “upside down.”
There is no “upside down” in space — unless Gore had his childhood view in mind.
At least I’m not in the wilderness this time. Lots of people have pondered the possibility that Barack is our Divine Redeemer. There are Web sites dedicated to the question “Is Barack Obama the Messiah?” Google that question and you’ll get more than 35,000 hits. (Enter just the words “Messiah” and “Obama” and you’ll get nearly 10 times that.)
But there’s more concrete evidence. Since Obama declared his candidacy, there have been remarkably few biblical plagues. And lions and lambs seem open to bilateral negotiations.
Obama’s apostles are hard to dismiss. Oprah simply calls him “The One,” because “we need politicians who know how to be the truth.” (Jesus says in John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth ...”) Oprah goes on to say Obama will help us “evolve to a higher plane,” which would put Obama in the role of our Intelligent Designer......
Read the full article HERE
All hands to the escape pods....
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 1:03 PM by Robby Roberts
No, I'm not giving up and abandoning ship. "Escape Pod" is the name of a podcast I subscribe to and I'm really enjoying. First, what's a "Podcast" some of you may be asking. Think of it as a radio broadcast that you subscribe to and download to your PC to listen to. In this case, every Thursday they post a new, Sci-Fi Short story (usually Hugo Award Nominee's) that you can download. You can go to the site and just download the MP3 file, or if you use a program like iTunes, you can "subscribe" and iTunes will download it for you automatically and even sync it to your iPod. You don't have to have and iPod or other mp3 player, you can listen to them on your PC.
Myself, I like to listen to them on my walks.
Now, my buddy Greg has been trying to read more and more books. I used to be able to digest a book like nothing. I could take in a 450 page paperback in a weekend. But, after the accident in 2004, I have trouble PHYSICALLY reading for more than about 15 mins at a time. I get a bad headache and it's not my eyes. So, I have been turning more and more to audio books so I can still get my fix.
FYI - our Church has a podcast of some of our best messages, and Pastor Tony just uploaded the first of the "Leaving the House of Blues" HERE.
Oh, and for those of you that still like to read, or for those like Pastor Tony that are lucky enough to have an Amazon Kindle (on my wishlist, FYI!), there is a bonus. Click the link to the Hugo Awards page in the text above and you can download eBook versions of some of the stories to read.
100!
Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 7:02 PM by Robby Roberts
- The number of years in a century
- A 100 year old person is known as a centenarian. George Burns. Bob Hope, and United States Senator Strom Thurmond were among those who had lived to 100.
- The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight
- The United States Senate has 100 Senators
- The number of subunits into which many of the world's currencies are divided; for example, one euro is one hundred cents and one Pound Sterling is one hundred pence
- The number of tiles in a standard Scrabble set
- The denomination of the U.S. hundred-dollar bill with Benjamin Franklin's portrait; the "Benjamin" is the largest U.S. bill in print
- The denomination of American savings bonds with Thomas Jefferson's portrait
- The denomination of American treasury bonds with Andrew Jackson's portrait
- Hundred Days, aka the Waterloo Campaign
- "The First Hundred Days" is an arbitrary benchmark of a President of the United States' performance at the beginning of his term
- 100 is the HTTP status code indicating that the client should continue with its request
- STS-100 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched April 19, 2001
- NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange
- In English slang, adding the number 100 to a particular skill or subject denotes introductory knowledge ("Physics 100", "Soccer 100"), akin to the name of a first year university subject.
- Games 100 is an annual listing of the year’s top games
- The Time 100 is a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. The list has developed into an annual event.
- 100 Grand Bar (formerly known as $100,000 Bar) is a candy bar produced by Nestlé
- Pope Valentine succeeded Pope Eugene II to become the 100th Pope in August 82
- The number of yards in an American football field (not including the end zones).
- The number of runs required for a cricket batsman to score a Century, a significant milestone
- The record number of points scored in one NBA game, set by Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriers on March 2, 1962
- The Freedom 100 is an Indy Pro Series auto race held the Friday before the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
- The 2004 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals was the 100th Fall Classic
- San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson became the fastest player in NFL history to reach 100 touchdowns on November 19, 2006
- Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies became the fastest MLB player to reach 100 home runs on June 27, 2007
- The minimum distance in yards for a Par 3 on a golf course
OR - I could just come out and say it's Official, I've lost 100 lbs since Labor Day of last year.....
