Elijah's state record 800m run

The ring

Specs: Tungsten Carbide (an alloy with nickel binder)
Size: 11.5

Several cool notes about Tungsten and reasons why I picked this metal:

1. Tungsten Rings are the most wear-resistant rings available on the planet.
   
2. Tungsten is about 10 times harder than 18K Gold, 5 times harder than tool steel, and 4 times harder than titanium. Tungsten measures between 8 and 9 on the Mohs hardness scale. (Diamonds are a 10 - the highest.)
   
3. Due to their extreme hardness, Tungsten Rings will hold their shape and shine longer than any ring on the market.
   
4. Tungsten rings have been referred to as "Permanently Polished Rings."

I bought it from these guys, http://www.tungstenworld.com/, but drove into their local HQ to pick it up and try on for size.

Price is about 1/3 of stand alone jeweler such as Robins Bros.

Teeth

Recent check up with the dentist, five cavity's.

Hard to smile when the dentist will be drilling in there pretty soon.

A couple of those are from previous fillings that now are busted, apparently from a shoddy job the first time. So, I'm at a new dentist.

Terrible pain though, every time I eat it hurts. Good diet plan.

I know typpically the point of posting something here....

is to share something of common interest to all.

Yeah... well I don't have that today. It's big news for me, and I guess I wanted to date it somewhere for my own records.

Dropped under 220 this morning for the first time since probably freshman summer in high school.

Granted I went for 10 min in the sauna after running for 35 min, so I squeezed out all the water I could, but I have been hovering in the 221 range for a week now.

I Started around 260 last year, thinking 220 would be a good goal weight, but now that I am here, 210 is probably more of a healthy range.

Any one read to the end? Ah well, I wouldn't either.

Lasik eye

I usually have a photo to go along with my posts. In this case, it's such big news that the information itself may be interesting enough to stand alone.

I had custom wavefront lasik with interlase on my eyes this past Friday.

No longer any glasses!

The whole operation is so fast, and not scary at all.

I'm taking a bunch of eye drops, but otherwise everything is done.

Theres about a two week healing period, and around the three month period fully healed.

It's pretty amazing feeling to go from glasses or contacts all my life, to not needing those items any longer.

New bad boy in town

Specs: 61" DLP LED SAMSUNG

Running GTA4 here via PS3 at 1080p over the HDMI input.

......It's just to Sweet!

Were still running on that ghetto old TV stand, but all things in time.

Thanks again to MARK, early wedding present with the TV.

I'm still fiddling with the settings, apparently it's important to run some calibration DVD's to get the colors just right.

Blue Ray looks absolutely amazing, and with the size and distance from the TV, it feels like your sitting in about the 15th row at a movie theater.