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"Taking
a Swing at Weight Loss - Update #4"
30 May 2001
Gweetings to da
fam, da fwiends, and all da rest a uuz!! Fogee abboouuuu it!
Can you guess where I have been? Smile. Just had an awesome
weekend in New England celebrating my brothers wedding!! In
Tennessee at the moment en route back to Texas!! Houston here we
come...hoping da Astros will manhandle the Dodgers over the weekend.
Then off to meet Phil and Betsy and kids in New Orleans for a few days to
visit Betsy's grandparents. Time ticks on!
The stats, the stats!
Just completed the eighth week of this monster road trip and am feeling very
sustained and fortified by both Divine Blessings and much love and support
from all of you. Have now racked up 75 pounds of weight loss covering
over 10,000 miles on the road through 21 states while attending 37 major
league and 2 minor league baseball games. All of this without any
mechanical or physical problems and while having the chance to get to know
both of my fathers much better. The Heavenly Father God Almighty has
blessed us immensely with many gems and pearls of experience and safety on the
road. My dad and I have really gotten much better acquainted and
have chewed on many things (conversationally) with much depth and time.
You can talk about all kinds of things while covering 600 miles in a day.
We were so eager to get to my grandfathers house last week in Virginia that we
drove 16 hours straight stopping only for gas from Kansas City. With a
"potty" on board no need to even stop for that.
The most memorable event of the last 2 weeks was definitely the game between....I
mean it was my brother Paul's wedding to his new bride Eleni in Boston MA over
the memorial day weekend. I almost choked on my bow tie when I looked up
and read on a plague in the sanctuary that the first pastor of the church
where the wedding was held was in 1664!!!! Ya talk about history...the
church which is a real gem of a building is one of the oldest in North
America. What a great time we had with family and friends
celebrating the genesis of a new family. Had a chance to hang out with
some good buds like Jon Petersen and Alberto Rodriquez who very generously
came out all the way from California along with the whole immediate family
that came from California and New Jersey and even some
relatives I had only previously heard about from Cape Cod and other NE areas.
Am embarrassed to admit that the TUX did not fit....its was too BIG!!!
For the first time in my life I had to have extensive alterations in the
smaller direction which was actually a lot of fun! Besides the wedding did
squeeze in some memorable baseball while attending the 100 year anniversary of
the Boston Red Sox baseball club on Sunday 5/27 and a great game between the
Sox and Yankees on Memorial day.
I have to again emphasize how helpful and encouraging the e-mail I receive has
been. To know that so many of you care enough to write amazes and
blesses me. And the web site has gotten over 500 hits already which
totally surprised me. By the way if you have any suggestions on the site
let me know. The plan is for it to be updated with pics and stuff
usually every weekend. These more extensive written updates will
be posted every couple weeks. Feel free to pass on the address to others
who may be interested. One of the more rewarding outcomes of the journey
already is the encouragement that the whole experience has been to others who
have started diets of their own!
Well thanks for taking the time to read this. Look forward to hearing from
you...Go PADS!!!! Nice little come back to get into the thick of things
in the congested West!! (if u are not a baseball fan don't worry if that
sentence made no sense)
Cruising da baseball oceans of America,
dr. Nick
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Taking a Swing at Weight Loss! 