2003-01-07 - 10:43 p.m.

Knock Knock

It was a good day at work today.  I went in late.  That was nice.  It was pretty quite.  I had a normal amount of work to do.  I could hardy focus on anything, though.  I just am not much interested in work these days.

There was more talk about the contest to lose weight.  Tommy weighs himself four times a day now.  Kevin asked me if I wanted to go with him to the gym after work.  There was no way I could say no.  All day long I tried and tried to think of a good reason not to go.  Every time Kevin wavered I jumped on it and told him we weren't going.  But he would not let me.

David came into the office to hang out for a while.  Kevin and I had been joking about how stupid knock knock jokes are.  David came in and I asked Kevin, "Knock, knock."  He said, "Who's there?"  I said, "Interrupting Cow."  He said, "Interrupting c…"  And I interrupted and said, "Moooooo!"  They both thought it was hilarious.  This surprised me because this joke is very old.  My niece told it to me years ago.  I laughed my head off at the time.

Kevin said, "Knock, knock."  I said, "Who's there?"  Kevin said, "A Polish burglar."

David and I just went, "Ah.  I see.  He's Polish, you see, so he announced…"

The, I swear to God, I said to David.  "I have a very good knock knock joke.  You start."  And David said, "Ok, knock, knock."  And I said, "Who's there?!"  He just stopped. He fell for it.  I laughed like an idiot for five minutes and then explained to them that I had heard that joke back in elementary school and no one had fallen for it until now.

I took a long lunch today.  I walked over to the building up the street to eat in the café.  I sat reading my book and lost track of time.  I'm not sure how long I was there but it could have been an hour and half.  When I got back no one said anything.  I don't think anyone noticed or cared.

I am beginning to notice a trend.  Every time I leave the office, when I get back Kevin and Ben say, "Wow, the phones rang off the hook as soon as you left." No matter what time I go to lunch they say the same thing.  I notice when one of them leaves the phones don't ring off the hook.  I wonder if it dawns on them that the only thing that changes is that I'm not there. The phones are not ringing more.  I'm just taking more calls.

Oh, well.

So now it is time to go.  Kevin and I drive over to the gym which is just around the corner from our building.  He has never been there before and everyone has been telling him how the place is filled hot, hot women in their work out clothes.  And here is the thing about Kevin, he is getting married in April and he and his fiancée are not going to have sex until their honeymoon.  It is part of a process that will make it all the more special.

It has been a few days since he has been intimate with his beautiful fiancée/roommate.  Honestly, I can see abstaining for a few weeks, but four months?  That is just cruel.  They were going to go cold turkey for six months but they kept putting it off.  I doubt they will last the duration.  That sort of decision seems more and more arbitrary the further you get into it, in my opinion.

So we were heading over to the gym to work out.  Both of us have been slackers for a while and just wanted to do any sort of work out we could.  We entered this place packed to the gills with new year's resolution people (like us) and I watched people as we passed by. They all looked at Kevin.

Kevin is tall.  Over six feet tall.  He is a big, broad shouldered nice looking man.  Women tried to catch his eye.  Even guys looked at him as we went to the locker room.

Tall guys have an advantage.  They stand out in the crowd.  I told him people were looking at him.  He said it was because he has an aura. The aura of a man who was taken and that makes all the difference.

I guess.  Anyway, I was more or less invisible as we wandered through the gym.

We did our workout.  It was fun.  It is usually more fun to go with someone. You can take turns on the machines without feeling self conscious about resting between reps. We talked about how weak we both are.  He is a lot stronger than I am even when he is out of shape.

There were a lot of beautiful women there.  A lot of different types of women of different ages.

We spent about an hour there, both of us glad we did something instead of nothing like we really wanted to.  And if it had not been for Kevin I would have gone home and gone to bed.

The only real change to my diet so far has been to cut out sugar.  And by cut out, I mean obvious sugars like colas and candy.  Not the subtle sugar like you get when you eat a slice of bread.  I have never wanted candy more in my life.  A big, frosty Coca-Cola would be great.  But I shan't have one.

The pull of sugar is very strong.  It has ruled the world for centuries. There was a time when sugar was so rare that it was more valuable than gold, or so I am told.

I am not really into candy, but I have been eating more of it during the holidays.  There is just more of it around.   I got candy for Christmas.  Even one of my clients sent me their company logo in chocolate. It looked very good today, but I didn't eat it.

I am not practiced in denying myself things.  If I want something to eat something, if I really want it, I usually just go ahead and have it.  I don't drink diet drinks or use artificial sweeteners.  They make me sick.  So I had to remind myself that this was just a craving and it would pass.  And it has.

Tomorrow I go back to work.  I'll have to be there on time.  I can't think of a good excuse to come in late.

Jimmy
 

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