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My wife got a couple samples of the new Extra Citrus Mint gum the other day. Now, I like citrus gum a lot - any kind of intense combination of lemon/lime/orange flavored gum is chewing heaven for me. But it's very hard to find, as, apparently, I'm the only person on earth who likes that kind of gum. And, of course, I like mint gum. So what's the verdict on a gum that is both lemony and minty? Well, my wife put it best when she said, "It's awful when you start, but it gets better." The actual flavor combination is pretty terrible. Mint and lemon really don't go together well in my opinion, but the good news is that the mint vanishes pretty quickly, leaving a very pleasant, intense lemony flavor that I really enjoyed. So I'd probably buy this if I saw it in the stores and have someone pre-chew it for 15 seconds for me.

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These guys are, hands down, my favorite band in the whole world. And this is the third time I've seen them in concert in the last 2 years. It's always a great show. Here's a couple of videos I shot tonight.

It's Saturday so it's time to check my weight: That's down about half a pound from last week, which is pretty good considering I had a pretty emotional week and exercised exactly once due to a lot of 12-hour days at the office. I found a neat iPhone app called TargetWeight that tracks your weight and BMI. Here's what my chart for the week looks like: So, it's a start. Hopefully I can break below 180 lbs. this week and keep it that way.

It's concert weekend at our household, with Casting Crowns last night and then Downhere tonight. This is my second time seeing Casting Crowns live, and I can't say enough good things about their live set (and live albums). I've said before that they're one of those groups that's just better live than on a record (digital bits, shurely). Last night they switched things up from the first time I saw them a few years ago by including an acoustic set designed mainly to showcase Melodee DeVevo's vocal talents. (Other female back-up/co-lead-singer Megan Garrett was absent, at home with a new baby.) It was a terrific show that provided me with my first opportunity to do a social media concert video. I tried uploading this during the show last night but both the Wifi and 3G signals in the Shaw Conference Centre were pretty degraded, so it had to wait for the drive home. It finally finished uploading at 11 p.m. last night and by the time I got up this morning, had...

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This kinda blurry and ridiculously pixelated photo (that's what I get for using the zoom on my iPhone) is my current weight as of this morning. I want to get this number down, and I'm going to post a new picture every Saturday to help encourage (shame, shurely) myself to get it down.