Another typical day in the life. A nice hike with the Wednesday Walkers group (pictures to follow), being a substitute in dart league, and ending the night with a Barretto bar crawl. Does it get any better than that? Yeah, I can think of some ways, but it is what it is, and I’m living large, so why complain?

I was a little perturbed at being asked to play in the dart league match. Yeah, I had agreed at the end of last season to be a substitute, but now it seems like an unwarranted intrusion on my freedom to do what I want when I want to do it. Three is the minimum to play a match, and my former team has three players without me. One of them is currently visiting in the USA, so I’m expecting a call again next week. I did make it clear that they need to find a replacement. Anyway, I hadn’t played darts since my “retirement” last month, and I had to play with a set of darts I don’t like, so I wasn’t expecting much performance-wise. I didn’t throw well, but I wasn’t as horrible as I thought I might be. And we won the match 13-0 against an admittedly weak opponent. Apparently, that was the first time “our” team had ever accomplished that feat. Maybe it will be a last for me as well.

Nothing special about the beerless bar crawl. Started at Hideaway, where I bought Joy and the girls some of those big-ass tacos from the Coffee Shop for dinner. I moved on from there to Cheap Charlies. Regular Rose wasn’t working, and my other regular, Marilou, was occupied with another customer. No biggie, I got a back rub from one gal and sat with another girl who’d never heard my jokes before, so that was a win. I finished the night at Kamto, where I enjoyed a chicken sandwich and some convo before heading home. I was a little drunker than I prefer having started at two in the afternoon, another reason I don’t like playing in the dart league.

Today marks the end of the first week of my reduced calorie/increased exercise program. Coincidentally, Facebook reminded me that it was four years ago today that I finally achieved the weight loss milestone I had been striving for for over two years.

Anyway, this morning I weighed in at 210.6, down almost three pounds from where I started last week at 213.4. I’m not sure that rate of loss is sustainable, but I deem it a good start.

A few shots from the Wednesday hike:

Got a road trip hike/cookout coming up in the morning. Always nice to see something new. And to have something different to share with my faithful few readers. See you tomorrow!