To summarize the experience in multiple words…

A friend of mine instructs the class and invited me out for a free session. It’s pretty much what I expected. A whole lot of bouncing around. A whole lot of punching/kicking a bag. A whole lot of sweat. A whole lot of women who are way more in shape than me.

It was a great workout. There is no denying that. I’m pretty sore all over and my calves feel petrified. I guess that means the class was a success??? Success is painful.

Dog smells. Needs a bath.

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It hurt.

I called the doctor’s office, they scheduled an appointment for the same day.

I showed up at my appointment time. I was seen at my appointment time.

The doc cut a hole in me. My back hurt more.

The doc gave a prescription so the hurt would not come back.

I went to fill my prescription. The medicine was free.

Not covered by insurance. Publix has a whole list of medications they provide for free.

That’s awesome.

I love our healthcare in the US. I hope no one wants to change it.

This law is pointless and will do nothing. Every employer puts a dollar value on the role your job provides to the company. That dollar value becomes the budget for your total compensation package. I say ‘package’ because that’s exactly what it is. Your salary is not your compensation package. It’s merely a component along with payroll taxes, insurances, costs, vacation time, or any other benefits they may provide. Paid sick-days will simply become part of that package and as anyone with basic math skills to tell you, when you add two things together, you get a bigger result.

Should this legislation pass and employers become required to offer paid sick-days then everyone impacted by this will suddenly find they no longer provide as much value to their company (monetarily speaking) as they did before. Do you think companies are going to sit idly by and “eat” this cost? Of course not, they have shareholders to please and dropping profits are not very pleasing.

So what happens? Employers will either cut salaries immediately or wait till annual review time comes around and give the employee nothing. Eventually things will level out as does everything. Equilibrium is a bitch, huh? The result being people are paid less but get these magical paid sick-days and politicians everywhere can run around saying, “Look what I did for you!”

And what did they do exactly? Nothing… other than use the power of the government to force make you like them better and keep them in office even longer … pandering to more idiots.

Hillary, it wasn’t ‘sexism’ which caused you to loseWeight Exercise, it was ‘cuntism.’ People don’t like/trust you.

I’m playing kickball with the WAKA organization and am having a blast with it. Although my team officially has a losing record, I’ve met some really great people in the league who have taken my alcohol consumption to some of the highest levels ever. We have even booked trips to Las Vegas for the 2008 Founders Cup (basically the Super Bowl of kickball). I cannot wait!

I went sailing for the first time in my life a few weeks ago. I was pretty petrified of the boat tipping the entire time but fortunately for me that never happened. We were sailing in a regatta and took home a 3rd place divisional trophy. How awesome is that for a first experience?

Today I start back at Georgia State to take a few business classes. Negotiations in the May-mester and then Project Management in the regular Summer session. It will be weird going back there after all these years gone but I’m kind of looking forward to it. Can’t wait to pick up my first Georgia State Football t-shirt from the Student Center!

My house rented out. I went through a management company to find a tenant and to handle all the paper work. So far, I’m pretty satisfied with how everything turned out. I knew nothing about my renters before they moved in except they had stellar credit, a dog, agreed to the rent I was asking and paid an absurd deposit. It’s so nice not paying a mortgage and rent at the same time.

I was at the Braves’ Opening Day. We lost but it was my first time at an Opening Day (regardless of what Brand Atlanta says). We had the all you can eat / drink tickets. I definitely got my money’s worth.

Along with APWBWGTTD founder mingaling, bobafred and I launched APWBWGTTD.com (or atlblogs.net) for all Atlanta Bloggers to join and participate. Right now it’s mostly just a feed aggregator such as the old site but we have some ideas to make the site an even better Atlanta Blogger community. Much thanks to the recently new member freecone for a kickass logo (which will debut as soon as we can figure out how to fit into the template).

I took a cooking class. That was interesting. It was via the Apron’s deal at Publix. All in all, wouldn’t recommend it. Not worth the money.

I went to the Orange Bowl. My motivation for going was Miami January has got to beat Atlanta in January. Not even close. It was the first time Miami had been in the 30s in 40 years or something. Rained, too. I’m glad I went and I had a blast. I just wish I had brought warmer clothes.

So there’s an update. Not funny. Not even interesting really. I hope to do better. Promise. Not that you care.