11 down, 1 to go --
And despite what all the analysts have been saying, I really think this will be a tougher game than everyone seems to think. Virginia Tech poses a threat because its defense might be good enough to slow down Miami, its combo of Suggs and Jones could potentially run all over Miami's D, and its special teams could easily get them a touch or two considering the 'Canes have done a horrible job of blocking on punts and FGs all year long. 

It's entirely possible that Miami might be able to just walk all over the Hokies like they did the Orangeman today, but I'm personally a little scared. I'm definitely not going to start searching for Fiesta Bowl tickets yet, that's for sure. 

By the way, I was proud of Dorsey's performance today. The Syracuse pass defense isn't worth a damn, but he's performed poorly against other defenses that they clearly out-matched. He threw the ball well, was very accurate and was more consistent than I've seen him all year. Anyway, I still don't think he should win the Heisman, but he definitely deserves to be invited to New York. McGahee, too. 

The Diana Kauffman and Lisa Gleave Show --
If you've been anxiously awaiting the day that I would finally post my full arsenal of Diana Kauffman and Lisa Gleave pics that I have been promising for months, your day has come. If you follow the above links to the Babe of the Week page for each of the girls, you'll now find special bonus links to zip files containing a whole slew of hot, never-before-seen (on this site) photographs. For those with short-term memories, these beauties were two of the hottest booth babes of E3 2002 and the are hella fine. 

Happy Thanksgiving! --
Toole made some angel food cake, Sam whipped up his classic green bean casserole and took care of the turkey, Smith prepared the homemade stuffing, Jell-O, gravy, and lemon meringue pie, and I made the mashed potatoes (even peeled them myself!). It was all pretty damn amazing and I stuffed myself full of about two servings of everything. For a bunch of re-re's, we managed to put together a nice feast. 

Thankfully, my diet plan allows for one free day per week where you are encouraged to gorge yourself -- and I definitely did that. Sad part is that in order to get it back on Sundays as it was originally, I'll have to go about nine days in a row without another one. Shouldn't be a problem, assuming that I don't die from all I ate tonight. We'll find out Monday morning how it's affected my progress, but I'm guessing I'll still be on track to hit my goal of being less than 330 lbs at the end of the first 12 week cycle. 

Anyway, I hope all of you out there has had a very cheerful Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Turkey Day!

Weeding out the crap --
My PlayStation 2 collection has shrunk to an even hundred, as I've traded in another three of my stinkers -- Test Drive Off Road Wide Open, Cool Boarders 2001 and Project Eden. I still have a few more stinkers left, but will keep them for now because each seems to have a different hold on me. Would you want to let a gem like Portal Runner out of your hands? I didn't think so.

It's all about the videogames --
Believe it or not, this new "Dear Dave" update has at least a half-dozen letters that have to do about videogames and the gaming industry -- and they're not all NFL 2K topics, either. Well, color me surprised. I'm personally all for it and will always gladly answer your gaming centered questions whenever I'm able to. So, keep 'em coming! Oh, and if that game stuff bores you, there's also some new dating advice, babe talk and other random crap discussed in the newly updated "Dear Dave". 

More games, less games --
I got rid of another less-than-stellar PS2 game to fill up my EB gift card so that I could pick up Mech Assault for Xbox Live. It's an extremely good game to play online and if you're looking for a spanking, you can TRY to find me. I won't give you my gamer tag because I really suck at it and I sound a bit feminine through those headset things. 

My GameCube library has also grown by one. Fran picked me up a copy of Metroid Prime from the Nintendo store up in Washington a week and a half before it hit retail store shelves in this region. Pretty nice of him, I say. 

This babe's got charisma --
Don't let the name of the show fool you, Charisma Carpenter is the real star of Angel and not that vampire dude that gets his name in the title. It's Charisma's ever-so-cute expressions and hotness, along with the show's witty dialog, that make me try to tune into it every week. That's why it's no surprise that she's being rewarded with being named my most recent Babe of the Week. 

The vodka and popsicle diet --
I weighed in this morning at a measly 337.5 lbs, which means that I've lost approximately 49 lbs since I started this program and about 8 lbs in the past week. That, for those of you that are keeping score, is my best week yet. Maybe it's because I had a solid week of working out and followed the dietary guidelines fairly consistently most of the week, or maybe it's because of the nice mix of a half bottle of vodka and box and a half of sugar free popsicles that I had Friday night. I really don't know. I just know that whatever it was, I had a good week as far as loosing weight is concerned. 

With Thanksgiving approaching, this might be a tough week ahead. My plan is to just have my free day on Thursday instead of Sunday, so all should be fine as long as I'm able to just keep the Thanksgiving feast on Thursday and Thursday alone. It's okay if I pig out a little on that day, since that's what the free day is supposed to be about, but I just can't let the overeating extend beyond that. I pretty sure I'll be fine. 

Boring, but productive, day --
I've been dealing with a cold since Friday morning that was brought on thanks to a quick cold spell that crept out of nowhere. It was a fairly warm night, so I left my window cracked at night, then the temperature dropped and I became sick. Well, it hasn't been all bad because even though I was extremely sick Saturday morning I had a great cardio workout and then today I got a lot of housework done, including washing all my clothes and my sheets and vacuuming my bedroom. Despite the fact that I've been bored out of my mind all weekend, I feel like I've gotten a decent amount of stuff done. Good weekend, in my book.

Drunker than drunk --
There was a time in my life where I could chug a bottle of vodka and be fine...well, somewhat fine. Not anymore. Tonight, I guzzled down a mere half bottle of the old fire water and am beyond fucked up. So fucked up that I enjoyed watching Episode II Attack of the Clones on DVD and so fucked up that I couldn't even get an erection upon seeing Nat's lovely little nips in the movie. 

The PS2 Library Shrinks --
I'm not big on getting rid of old games anymore, mainly because I regret trading in so many classics on the SNES and Genesis years gone by, but I had a few stinkers in my PlayStation 2 collection that I figured I should just give up on. Basically, it was four 3DO titles and two from Majesco, so my collection got better by retraction, basically. May bring it down a bit further if I see others I'm willing to let go of. 

She's hot like a fox --
My latest Babe of the Week, Lisa Dergan, is currently a reporter for Fox Sports Net and is by all means worthy of being called a "fox" -- assuming people actually still use that word to refer to a hot and extremely beautiful woman. Lisa has also spent time as a model for Guess, is a former Playboy Playmate of the Month and has been a member of my Spank Bank™ for more than a decade.  

Your Dearest Dave --
Being lazy and not updating the "Dear Dave" section usually means that when I do, I have a decent amount of letters to post. That's why today's update is a fairly good size. Definitely not HUGE, but large enough to get the job done. In today's "Dear Dave" a wide array of subjects are covered including dating advice from yours truly and lots of babe talk. Speaking of babe...the Babe of the Week will be posted tomorrow. I promise!

H.O.T. HOT! --
Kristin Kreuk is HOT! My thing is working again thanks to Smallville and I'm gonna reward it with an all-nighter. Good night! 

Down to where I thought I started --
I guess that I should be happy with the fact that I weighed in this morning at 345.5 lbs, which is more than 40 lbs lighter than I was when I started Body-for-LIFE, but it's just not impressive to me yet. Let's face it, I'm still fat -- even if people that know me can see that I'm not as big as I once was. The only thing people that don't know me will see when they look at me is a fat guy who keeps having to pull his pants up because they keep falling down these days. It's a start, though, and I do understand that this isn't going to be a overnight process. 

By the way, I should have some real updates as the week progresses. Been really out of it of late and have only had the desire to just put up quick blurbs about what my day has been like. Will have a new Babe of the Week for you all by Wednesday and a new "Dear Dave" update should also be ready between now and then. 

Done with it --
Well, even though I hate Resident Evil Zero, I still went ahead and beat it today. It's just like all of the other Resident Evil games -- horrible and annoyingly stupid game design wrapped up in a very pretty package with phenomenal atmosphere and a story that's both engaging and interesting enough to get you to put up with the gameplay issues. Opened up this thing called Leach something, but I'm not sure if I'll ever really play it since it'll be RE without the story...which doesn't really do much for me. If I do play, it'll be to play with the chick's new outfits. Kind of cute. 

Also played this other game a lot this weekend, but I'm not sure if I can talk about it yet. I'll check with Smith tomorrow, and if I can, I'll post my thoughts on it. It's another great, but extremely annoying kind of game. I've been playing a lot of those lately, it seems. 

Done to death --
Was playing some Resident Evil Zero for GameCube today and am amazed that they're still making these kinds of games and even more amazed that people are still putting up with the same old tired out formula. The gameplay, control and design of the Resident Evil series is just completely played out and should no longer be put up with. I still love the atmosphere and am intrigued by the game's story and presentation, but I'm so sick of putting up with its many gameplay issues that will never be fixed. I'm 350 lbs and out of shape and I don't take 30 minutes to turn around or walk backwards five feet. 

ABD --
Another bad day. Nice that it's pay day, but not nice that all my money is gone already. Damn bills and strippers. Other things are kind of crappy, but no need to discuss everything. At least I still have my good looks and sense of humor... 

Poop, shit, crap --
I'm a frustrated fat man these days. Decided to do a porn search a couple nights ago where I just downloaded everything that came up on KaZaa when I typed in "porn" without reading what each was about (trying to find porn I haven't seen), and ended up with a LOT of stuff that I wish I had died without ever seeing. There's some sick shit out there, but a lot of what I saw recently is beyond sick and is just flat out wrong. I'm not into bestiality or German shit porn, but I'm willing to accept that those are viable forms of pornography -- a lot of the stuff that ended up on my hard drive really shouldn't exist. 

What's worse is that my dick hasn't worked for the last 18 hours thanks to the evil images that have been forever burned into my head. I don't know if the damn thing will ever get hard again. I even watched Christina Aguilera's Dirrty video while rubbing myself constantly and nada. The thing didn't show any signs of life. My dick is broke and I'm not happy about it. 

Other things are also frustrating the fuck out of me, but it's mostly stuff that I can't talk about. I guess I should just concentrate on this whole weight loss thing and make it my life's focus. The only problem is that for the majority of my life I've always turned to food, alcohol or masturbation to deal with my problems and I can't really do any of that much anymore. I need an outlet and don't really have one since sports, working out and videogames tend to cause me as much stress as they help relieve them. Oh, well. Not looking for pity, because I don't need any. I'm just venting. At least I get paid tomorrow, so I'll have some cash -- at least until I pay all my bills and end up broke again.

This babe's got some flava --
She's a Juggy, an aspiring model and actress, a soft-core porn star, and a lovely mix Mexican, Apache and Korean. She also goes by a couple of different names, so searching for her pics takes twice the amount of effort. But don't like that stop you from abusing Google, but this week's Babe of the Week is extremely hot and there are heaps of hot pictures of her scattered all over this thing we like to call the 'Net. 

"Dear Dave" gets laid --
I wish. Instead of hooking up with this really hot chick that I saw on the drive home from work today, I decided that it was more important that I update the "Dear Dave" section tonight. All this really means is that either I'm really stupid or I just love all of you guys way more than any man should love another. Either that, or I had no chance at all of hooking up with a hot chick. The details aren't all that important, you just need to know that "Dear Dave" has been updated with a rather large number of your emails and my replies. You'll have to wait until tomorrow for this week's Babe, though. I promise you that she'll be hella hot...unlike the others.

DVD Tuesday --
If I was a geek, I'd be all excited because both Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Special Edition and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Special Extended Edition hit store shelves today. Oh, wait, I am a bit of a geek. I guess that's why I had both these DVDs pre-purchased from Suncoast Video and picked them up on my lunch break. Well, they are both now in my DVD collection, which is currently 167 titles strong.

Body-for-LIFE update --
The Babe of the Week will have to wait until tomorrow because I was busy doing several large loads of laundry. Typically a rather boring experience, laundry night was brightened up a bit by the fact that there were two fairly hot Asian honeys folding their clothes the whole time I was there. If not for the fact that I was a bit stinky, I would've made my moves and got laid tonight. Instead, I just did my laundry and came back and caught the end of the Raider blowout of the Chargers. 

Oh, right, the Body-for-LIFE update...I'm now 352.5 lbs, which means that I've lost approximately 34 lbs since I started this diet. I actually had a pretty bad week and ate a TON on my free day (2/3 of a Stouffers family size lasagna, several sandwiches, a large bowl of Pops with Diet Pepsi, and more), so I'm amazed I was able to lose 3 lbs in the past week despite all the wrong things I had been doing. Guess I should take it as a good sign. This week should be much better because it seems like that massive over-eating on Sunday has helped curb my appetite. 

Extremely fucking pissed... --
I always get mad when my teams lose, but this one against the Jets has just irked me more than normal. I guess it's because it was so damn close and such a well-played game by the majority of the Miami Dolphin football team. Even though the always-idiotic announcers called this Ray's "best game ever" as a Dolphin starting quarterback, he sucked a tremendous amount of ass tonight. 

First and foremost, it was his stupid fumble in the first quarter that gave the Jets their only TD of the entire game. You gotta be a fucking retard to fumble on a play like that. Second, if not for drops by the Jets defenders, he would've had at least six or seven INTs in the game. These were horrible passes that really should have been intercepted, but just weren't. Third, most of his "good" passes were only complete because of some unbelievably good catches by his wide receivers. Fourth, even *I* saw that Ray Mickens blitz coming and I'm just some stupid jackass who hasn't been on a football field in over a decade. It's his job to make those reads and NOT get sacked in those kinds of situations. He lost that football game. 

In order to let their guys get healthy and stay healthy, I suggest that the Dolphins just forfeit their games until Jay gets well. It's kind of funny because I still think that Jay isn't all that good -- yet, in all of his mediocrity, he's still leagues beyond the suck that is Ray Pucas. 

Things are getting tougher... --
...for the diet. I guess I should call it a "lifestyle change", but that doesn't sound right. Last night I was about to tell someone, "I've lost a little more than 30 lbs since starting my lifestyle change." But ended up using "diet" instead because I would've interpreted that statement as, "I've lost a little more than 30 lbs since I started banging other guys and going poop diving on a semi-regular basis. Diet works for me.

Anyway, I've gotten way off my point here. What I've been meaning to say is that it's been tough going of late. My temptations to eat the foods that I shouldn't have been really bad for about the past 10 days or so. It might just be my brain going crazy on me, but it seems that my roommates, Bishop and Smith, are eating more good foods around me of late. Also, it seems that the sign for the In 'N Out that I drive by every trip to and from work is BIGGER than it has been in the past and the smell from restaurants that I pass seem stronger than ever. It's like the whole world is trying to get me to screw up. 

I haven't strayed off path much, with the only exceptions being the three vodka tonics I had last night and the three slices of pizza I had earlier in the week, but it's getting hard to keep this up. The free day used to help me out by allowing me to be bad for one day, but lately it's just fueling my desire to eat worse the rest of the week. Oh, well, I'm sure this will pass soon.

Go 'Canes! --
I don't know where they'll be ranked in the BCS -- everyone seems to think they'll be #2 behind OSU -- and I don't care. I'm semi-happy with the way they played today and hope that this is a sign of things to come. If they play their game and don't get complacent, I think they'll find themselves in the National Championship game again. With only two remaining unbeaten teams, the only thing they have to worry about is winning their own games and nothing more. It doesn't matter if they're #1 or #2. Their remaining schedule is still pretty scary, so I'm not buying my Fiesta Bowl tickets yet, though. 

I think I suck my own dick when I sleep --
What else could explain the fact that I've woken up to an extremely dry, pasty and sticky mouth every morning for the past week and a half? I've had to brush and use two rounds of mouthwash every morning since this started happening just to get my mouth to the point where it feels fresh.

Not another teen Babe of the Week --
That's only because this week's Babe of the Week, Chyler Leigh, is 20 years old and subsequently not a teenager anymore. If you don't know who this hottie from North Carolina is, she was the star of Not Another Teen Movie and was one of the lead characters of the recently cancelled, barely-even-started, television series called Girls Club -- actually saw an episode and couldn't stomach excessive amount of feminism that was flowing from my TV set. Would've watched the show for her and Gretchen...maybe. Regardless, Chyler is definitely spank-worthy and thusly is this week's Babe of the Week!

Another BCS rant --
I don't really care all that much that Miami is now #3 in the wonderful Bowl Championship Series rankings. I think the team has become complacent and was actually hoping that they would drop in the polls to get them some inspiration and give them that virtual kick in the ass. What irks me is that it uses these asinine computer rankings that are so completely full of shit.