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I Feel So Relieved

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For the past eight years, I have held a terrible secret, one that has caused me no small amount of sleepless nights. On at least two occasions during that time, I’ve had the opportunity to level with the authorities, and neither time did I avail myself of the opportunity to cleanse my soul of its terrible burden.

But now, as of this morning, I no longer feel like a hunted man. It feels as if a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. The monkey is off my back.

That is, if the monkey weighed fifty-five pounds.

You see, as of this morning, for the first time in eight years my actual weight has matched the number printed on my driver’s license.

Just makes me want to prance naked through the DMV calling neener neener neener

In other news, it looks as if I may soon be leaving my comfy, well-lit ER here at PGHNSTRACH and going back to work on the bolance. If that happens, I’ll post a couple of before and after weight-loss pics. I’ll wait until the day before I start work at the Big Green Army, so at least my beloved goatee will be memorialized before the powers-that-be force me to shave it back to a simple porn star moustache.

*Sob*

  • bob@thenest

    AD, I’m curious. If KatyBeth has noticed, and I’m think she surely has, what’s her take on all this?And congratulations. A flash in the pan is nice, but that much self-discipline over the longer haul is quite something else. You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.

  • bob@thenest

    AD, I’m curious. If KatyBeth has noticed, and I’m think she surely has, what’s her take on all this?And congratulations. A flash in the pan is nice, but that much self-discipline over the longer haul is quite something else. You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.

  • Anonymous

    Ok, I’m lost… what’s the big green army? THE Army?

  • Anonymous

    Ok, I’m lost… what’s the big green army? THE Army?

  • Anonymous

    Ok, I’m lost… what’s the big green army? THE Army?

  • Anonymous

    Ok, I’m lost… what’s the big green army? THE Army?

  • Stretcher Jockey

    No…no, AD….say it isn’t so….Please tell me you’re not becoming a “Green Weinie”*sigh*What a Greek tragedy…

  • JKosprey

    You and me both AD (The army, not the weight, I’m a skinny bastard. I have to GAIN weight to ship out.) I’m off to basic and AIT for combat medic on May 22nd

  • Stretcher Jockey

    No…no, AD….say it isn’t so….Please tell me you’re not becoming a “Green Weinie”*sigh*What a Greek tragedy…

  • JKosprey

    You and me both AD (The army, not the weight, I’m a skinny bastard. I have to GAIN weight to ship out.) I’m off to basic and AIT for combat medic on May 22nd

  • Stretcher Jockey

    No…no, AD….say it isn’t so….Please tell me you’re not becoming a “Green Weinie”*sigh*What a Greek tragedy…

  • JKosprey

    You and me both AD (The army, not the weight, I’m a skinny bastard. I have to GAIN weight to ship out.) I’m off to basic and AIT for combat medic on May 22nd

  • Stretcher Jockey

    No…no, AD….say it isn’t so….Please tell me you’re not becoming a “Green Weinie”*sigh*What a Greek tragedy…

  • JKosprey

    You and me both AD (The army, not the weight, I’m a skinny bastard. I have to GAIN weight to ship out.) I’m off to basic and AIT for combat medic on May 22nd

  • Stretcher Jockey

    And I can’t believe that you didn’t want to go to work for Podunk Parish Ambulance Service *grin*They need all the help they can get these days from what I hear…

  • Stretcher Jockey

    And I can’t believe that you didn’t want to go to work for Podunk Parish Ambulance Service *grin*They need all the help they can get these days from what I hear…

  • Stretcher Jockey

    And I can’t believe that you didn’t want to go to work for Podunk Parish Ambulance Service *grin*They need all the help they can get these days from what I hear…

  • Stretcher Jockey

    And I can’t believe that you didn’t want to go to work for Podunk Parish Ambulance Service *grin*They need all the help they can get these days from what I hear…

  • Anonymous

    HEY AD – How about some clarification. Is this a re-join ? More experience ? Better/more training ? In general what’s the deal-io ? I’ve been a faithful reader to your sight since I’ve found it and I’m sure all of us FRs would like the background and how this all came to be

  • Anonymous

    HEY AD – How about some clarification. Is this a re-join ? More experience ? Better/more training ? In general what’s the deal-io ? I’ve been a faithful reader to your sight since I’ve found it and I’m sure all of us FRs would like the background and how this all came to be

  • Anonymous

    HEY AD – How about some clarification. Is this a re-join ? More experience ? Better/more training ? In general what’s the deal-io ? I’ve been a faithful reader to your sight since I’ve found it and I’m sure all of us FRs would like the background and how this all came to be

  • Anonymous

    HEY AD – How about some clarification. Is this a re-join ? More experience ? Better/more training ? In general what’s the deal-io ? I’ve been a faithful reader to your sight since I’ve found it and I’m sure all of us FRs would like the background and how this all came to be

  • Anonymous

    Supposed to be ‘site’ not ‘sight’. (stupid fingers, not typing what I meant)

  • Anonymous

    Supposed to be ‘site’ not ‘sight’. (stupid fingers, not typing what I meant)

  • Anonymous

    Supposed to be ‘site’ not ‘sight’. (stupid fingers, not typing what I meant)

  • Anonymous

    Supposed to be ‘site’ not ‘sight’. (stupid fingers, not typing what I meant)

  • Fat Lazy Male Nurse

    Why don’t you treat yourself, and your loved ones to a big old ‘cockduster’ ‘tache like Magnum PI?

  • Fat Lazy Male Nurse

    Why don’t you treat yourself, and your loved ones to a big old ‘cockduster’ ‘tache like Magnum PI?

  • Fat Lazy Male Nurse

    Why don’t you treat yourself, and your loved ones to a big old ‘cockduster’ ‘tache like Magnum PI?

  • Fat Lazy Male Nurse

    Why don’t you treat yourself, and your loved ones to a big old ‘cockduster’ ‘tache like Magnum PI?

  • IceFire

    Congrats on the weight loss, AD!The way people’s weight fluctuates in one reason that PA DOESN’T list it on the DL’s (That, plus most people are likely gonna LIE about it anyways!)

  • IceFire

    Congrats on the weight loss, AD!The way people’s weight fluctuates in one reason that PA DOESN’T list it on the DL’s (That, plus most people are likely gonna LIE about it anyways!)

  • IceFire

    Congrats on the weight loss, AD!The way people’s weight fluctuates in one reason that PA DOESN’T list it on the DL’s (That, plus most people are likely gonna LIE about it anyways!)

  • IceFire

    Congrats on the weight loss, AD!The way people’s weight fluctuates in one reason that PA DOESN’T list it on the DL’s (That, plus most people are likely gonna LIE about it anyways!)

  • Richter

    “Well if you go prancing through the DMV, your weiner would flop around and you would actually be able to see it now that your belly is much less rotund. And that might make you stand there and look at it instead of gloating at the other fatties and freaks in the line,”eh, I may need to visit the DMV myslef in the near future, but I’ll wait till you and your weiner are through.you’ll notice me, I’ll be one of the fatties/freaks in line. (hi scotty!!!)

  • Richter

    “Well if you go prancing through the DMV, your weiner would flop around and you would actually be able to see it now that your belly is much less rotund. And that might make you stand there and look at it instead of gloating at the other fatties and freaks in the line,”eh, I may need to visit the DMV myslef in the near future, but I’ll wait till you and your weiner are through.you’ll notice me, I’ll be one of the fatties/freaks in line. (hi scotty!!!)

  • Richter

    “Well if you go prancing through the DMV, your weiner would flop around and you would actually be able to see it now that your belly is much less rotund. And that might make you stand there and look at it instead of gloating at the other fatties and freaks in the line,”eh, I may need to visit the DMV myslef in the near future, but I’ll wait till you and your weiner are through.you’ll notice me, I’ll be one of the fatties/freaks in line. (hi scotty!!!)

  • Richter

    “Well if you go prancing through the DMV, your weiner would flop around and you would actually be able to see it now that your belly is much less rotund. And that might make you stand there and look at it instead of gloating at the other fatties and freaks in the line,”eh, I may need to visit the DMV myslef in the near future, but I’ll wait till you and your weiner are through.you’ll notice me, I’ll be one of the fatties/freaks in line. (hi scotty!!!)

  • Evil Lunch Lady

    Wow Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Evil Lunch Lady

    Wow Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Evil Lunch Lady

    Wow Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Evil Lunch Lady

    Wow Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Chris in SE TX

    WTF? Why would, er…, A Cad… er… iana…. make you shave the goatee???? Chemical plants don’t allow them because of respirator fit problems, but you don’t wear those on the ‘bolance, do you?

  • Chris in SE TX

    WTF? Why would, er…, A Cad… er… iana…. make you shave the goatee???? Chemical plants don’t allow them because of respirator fit problems, but you don’t wear those on the ‘bolance, do you?

  • Chris in SE TX

    WTF? Why would, er…, A Cad… er… iana…. make you shave the goatee???? Chemical plants don’t allow them because of respirator fit problems, but you don’t wear those on the ‘bolance, do you?

  • Chris in SE TX

    WTF? Why would, er…, A Cad… er… iana…. make you shave the goatee???? Chemical plants don’t allow them because of respirator fit problems, but you don’t wear those on the ‘bolance, do you?

  • Recovering Grady Addict

    Acadian. That’d be the big greenie he’s referring to. And like my current service, still stuck on the 1950′s concept of physical appearance = competant medic. I was suprised to be hired on with my myriad of visable tattoos. I had heard that medics with arm tats were forced to wear long sleeve shirts year round. Gleefully not the case, since they are still stuck on 100% ployester shirts.However they are still sticklers for making the fella’s shave daily, no beards, no goatees, trim moustache’s.I don’t think anyone ever told them that when you are traveling towards the light you don’t care what the person pulling you back looks like. Smells like… well that’s different.

  • Recovering Grady Addict

    Acadian. That’d be the big greenie he’s referring to. And like my current service, still stuck on the 1950′s concept of physical appearance = competant medic. I was suprised to be hired on with my myriad of visable tattoos. I had heard that medics with arm tats were forced to wear long sleeve shirts year round. Gleefully not the case, since they are still stuck on 100% ployester shirts.However they are still sticklers for making the fella’s shave daily, no beards, no goatees, trim moustache’s.I don’t think anyone ever told them that when you are traveling towards the light you don’t care what the person pulling you back looks like. Smells like… well that’s different.

  • Recovering Grady Addict

    Acadian. That’d be the big greenie he’s referring to. And like my current service, still stuck on the 1950′s concept of physical appearance = competant medic. I was suprised to be hired on with my myriad of visable tattoos. I had heard that medics with arm tats were forced to wear long sleeve shirts year round. Gleefully not the case, since they are still stuck on 100% ployester shirts.However they are still sticklers for making the fella’s shave daily, no beards, no goatees, trim moustache’s.I don’t think anyone ever told them that when you are traveling towards the light you don’t care what the person pulling you back looks like. Smells like… well that’s different.

  • Recovering Grady Addict

    Acadian. That’d be the big greenie he’s referring to. And like my current service, still stuck on the 1950′s concept of physical appearance = competant medic. I was suprised to be hired on with my myriad of visable tattoos. I had heard that medics with arm tats were forced to wear long sleeve shirts year round. Gleefully not the case, since they are still stuck on 100% ployester shirts.However they are still sticklers for making the fella’s shave daily, no beards, no goatees, trim moustache’s.I don’t think anyone ever told them that when you are traveling towards the light you don’t care what the person pulling you back looks like. Smells like… well that’s different.


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