A Long Walk

 Going into 2026 I have a few goals that I want to accomplish.

The main one is that I want to have lost a total of 100 pounds by my 50th birthday. This weight loss started in October 2025.

I plan on being more active for the year and eating better, working on things a little bit at a time.

One of my exercise goals is to walk a total of 2026 miles for the year, and I will be attempting to do a weekly blog to go along with it detailing a long walk starting on January 1st.

I will be utilizing Google Maps, Grok and my imagination to go from my door step to places unknown over the course of this journey.  I have a few ideas of where I want to walk to, but it is going to be a work in progress as everything is up for change an interpretation.

I know my first destination, but I do not know how I will get there, how long it will take or anything that might side track me.

This is where Grok comes into play.

Grok, if you don't know, is just the Elon Musk AI bot/app/whatever.

I am telling Grok where I start, where I want to go and that we are using actual paths to get there.  Grok will utilize google maps to plan out my route, let me know where milestones happen. Help me find gas stations, towns, attractions, etc.  Then I will walk to those and talk about my journey and make up a million things along the way.

I've been wanting to get back into writing a bit, so I'm using this as an excuse to do it and hope that I can at least be mildly entertaining along the way.

My first roadblock is ....  this blog and square space.

Everything was working fine until my domain imported over to square space which caused it to stop being viewable and a "website coming soon" page went up in it's place.

So, This will be published and I'm going to go work on figuring out how to get it viewable again.

Wish me luck.

If you're reading this, I succeeded.

2026 is on the horizon

 2026 is right around the corner and I've got a few things on my plate that I'm looking forward to.

The biggest one is that I have been making my own BBQ Sauces and I plan on selling them at Farmers Markets locally, in Las Vegas.

I've been taking samples to work and having co-workers try them out and so far it's been positive.

I have someone making lables for me so that I can put them on the bottles when I have batches to sell.

I plan on having a website running with information so people can contact me to order.

Demon Drip - My Favorite

So far all is going well and I'm looking forward to putting my effort into this venture.

I've already got friends and family back home waiting for me to get ready to launch so that they can buy sauces and have me ship them out.

Other things on the horizon, in no particular order.

I plan on being debt free before the end of 2026.

I am working on my physical and mental health to be a better person in a multitude of ways.

I have a goal of losing a total of 100 pounds by the end of September.

I started reading the Bible for various reasons and plan on reading a little each day until I convert to catholicism or my brain explodes.

I'm probably going to do 75 hard again in 2026 - I need some focus.

I'm also planning on walking 2026 miles in 2026 and I have an idea of turning it into a fun (fun to me, maybe not to anyone else) story that I'll share on the blog in intervals.

I'll share more as the time is right.

Can't wait to reveal more BBQ sauces as I get the lables (Currently printing out labels but I'm getting samples of stickers that I can buy to attach as well).

Hope y'all doing well - whoever that might stumble upon this that is.

Reunited

 

As all things come to pass, my parents are now reunited in the afterlife.

I'm trying hard to believe that there is an afterlife and that they are together again and enjoying each others company.

My heartache will dull with time as will the children's.

I miss you both tremendously.

2025 - Another New Year

 It's been over a year since my fingers graced these pages.  Since my last posting a lot has happened. I realize that I used to come around to write to help me cope with things or to get thoughts out of my head so that I could deal with life better and over the past year that probably would have done me good.

However, time moves on and life changes.

We are now sitting firmly in 2025 and life continues to change and evolve.  Today I gave my daughter her last Xmas gift which is a quad so that she can ride around with her brother in the neighborhood.

He is the one who follows the rules and does things properly and she is the one I have to worry about. But, that's why she has to ride with him so he can keep her in line.

So, what is going on for 2025?

Well, I'm glad you asked.

I'll be playing Video Games.

I'll Be grilling Meats.

I'll be Drinking Beers.

I'll be Playing Pokers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same I guess.

I'm at a point where I feel like I'm ready to start playing poker again.  I have a teeny tiny bankroll of wadded up cash in my sock that I'm going to start taking to the casinos (probably mostly South Point) and playin super tight while waiting for pocket aces so that I can get my money in pre-flop and hope that my opponent doesn't get lucky. You know, until I build up a few buy-ins and can play super loose and aggressive until I blow almost all of my money and have to resort to buying in short and pushing all in with anything that looks like it could help me win a pot.

I'm also going to work on losing weight again.  I've done it before and it's time to do it again.  I'm not giving pounds as there is no use for that, but I'll talk about successes and failures as I'm trying to get healthier.  

I'll also resort to posting my grilling success stories and pictures of smokey meats that make mouths water and panties wet.  I'm not 5 star chef, but my family enjoys what I cook and I definitely want to start making more (different) items on the grill.

When I say grill - I mean any of my backyard outdoor appliances that the wife has come to accept as I cook more which means she gets to cook less.

I also want to work on upgrading these backyard appliances over the course of the next year or so as I use them all the time and feel like I should treat myself to something better in one way or another.

For instance, I have a 22" griddle that I use.  However, I want to retire this griddle to use as our camping/mountain excursion griddle and get a bigger one for the back yard.  As it is now, when I'm doing steak and cheese sandwhiches I don't have enough room to cook everything all at once.  So, I have to cook things in a rotation in order to accomplish the goal.  More room will lead to a happier grrouch. This will also lead to drinking less which, I guess, is good in the long run.

Trapper Old Dudes

So, here is to a better 2025. Weather it is a happier 2025, a healthier 2025 or just a more fun 2025.

Life is short, make it better.

In theory - Tomorrow will be my first poker session of the year and hopefully I can bring back some good news to talk about how I am destroying the poker tables and picking up all the pussy.

Peace out and Trapper on dudes.