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Happy March 17th everyone! Hope you are wearing some green.

We went to see Taylor’s (Shelley’s son) playoff basketball game last night. Despite Taylor’s 10 points they still lost to a very big team. We then went to Dairy Queen where I was a good boy, and sat patiently while everyone else gobbled down some frozen treats. But don’t worry, I was rewarded this morning with hitting the 210 mark. I have now lost 24 pounds.

The NCAA tournament is going nicely, and we still have room for more teams. The pot is currently around $120.

I went to go get the oil changed in the Honda on Saturday (before the bowlathon), but the place was slammed and they wouldn’t have been able to do it in time, for me to drive up to Yorktown by 1pm. That’s when I remembered that I had a brother named Prince, who use to work at Fallen Camper Sales, while he was taking “a break” from Georgia Tech (the Prince joke was a reference to a Christmas Story that eldest sister wrote when she was 9 or so). So I swung by KMart and picked up some Rhino Ramps (I only paid $30 for mine), a case of 10W-30 Pennzoil motor oil ($20 for 12 quarts, which should do 3+ oil changes for the Honda), a Fram Oil Filter ($5), and an Air Filter ($10). So it was an expensive first purchase ($55 for the oil change parts), but I will make my money back on the third oil change, considering an oil change goes for around $20 a pop. Another nice suprise was that the previous owners had left a 10 quart oil drain pan, so I was able to use that. Of corse, they didn’t leave it empty so after I used it I had to take it to Advanced Auto Parts to recycle it (where I needed to go anyway since the Civic’s air filter was unexpectadly difficult to find).

We celebrated Sherry, Charlie and Papa’s birthdays yesterday at Pearl’s house. We grilled out some hamburgers and hotdogs, with the sisters (Verna, Annis, and Martha) and Nanny contributing cakes, potato salads, coleslaws, and baked beans. Needless to say I only had the meet. But it is easy to do when the weight keeps coming off. I am down to 211 pounds and hope to be down to 210 by Tara’s wedding this weekend.

Sherry’s birthday is actually on March 24th… same as my Mom’s.

Thank you for the donations, I was able to raise $410 (after company matching) to donate to Junior Achievement. I am sorry to say that I was the worst bowler on my team and got beat in two of the games by a girl… but she is in a bowling league along with everyone else on my team, plus my game fell apart after Georgia Tech’s lost to Duke. But the good news is I raise the second most on my team and Georgia Tech is seeded 3rd in their bracket (St. Louis)… the entire bracket can be found here in PDF form.

Thanks to those of you that have pledge or donated. I am up to $145, but still want to get a little more. I want to say thanks to the following people for donating so far:

Lee Berner

Kevin Clary

Linnea Corn

Mary Fenno

Leigh McDonald

Judi Sands

Jack Sims

Shawn Tureman

Dawn Winters

I have been playing around with my paypal account (for collecting NCAA tournament money) and decided to make donations easy to give. Simply click on this button :

My company is having it’s participating in the Junior Achievement 18th Annual Bowlathon. And I said I would join in as well. But didn’t realize how little time I had to raise money. So the event is this weekend and I have raised somewhere close to $0. So if any of you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. You don’t have to get the money to me by this weekend I will just write a check to cover any pledges I get and you can mail a check whenever.

Or for those more technically savvy, you can use my paypal account, my email address for that is ben_mcdonald@symantec.com.

Any amount would be greatly appreciated, and any amount over $25 gets matched by my company!

I had to go by this little plastic ring guard to slip around my wedding band since it was slipping off quite easily and I was afraid I would lose it. I will eventually get it resized once I am at a weight that I hope to keep for the rest of my life.

I have set up a NCAA tournament on Yahoo

the link is here

and the password is ‘beebe’. Sign up now and have a add a little fun in your life.

If you that link doesn’t work here is the important information:

Group Number : 9950

Group Password : beebe

I am down to 213! only 9 more pounds to go before I reach my New Years Resolution of losing 30 pounds this year!