Critical Mass

I’ve finally reached the point where people who haven’t seen me in a while are actually in awe of my “new” look. I’ll give you two examples that occured over the last day…

Example #1 – I have to give you a little background on this one. There is a guy that I met almost a year ago on a flight from Angola to ??? somewhere. He worked for Schlumberger and was in the process of moving his family to Cameroon. I met up with him again a few months later in Gabon, also on the airplane. Then, last July 4th, we ended up on the same plane yet again flying into Gabon. As big as West Africa is and as much as we travel I’d ran into this guy on three separate occasions and each time on the airplane. Well, guess who I ran into on the flight from Pointe Noire to Luanda yesterday? Yep, same guy, only this time he was just staring at me trying to figure out who I was. I asked him why he was just staring at me and he said he thought I looked familiar but he couldn’t figure where he knew me from! Ha ha ha. Then he hounded me the entire trip about what I was eating and how much I was exercising. So there’s example one.

Example #2 – The office folk… They were kind of like the guy on the plane. They all just kind of stared at me like I have some sort of disease. It was pretty funny. The strange thing here is that I’ve only lost about 12lbs since I left, whereas I’d lost around 40lbs since the guy I mentioned above has seen me. 40lbs is a big difference but apparently the last 12lbs has been the “critical mass.”

Now, add to that the partial mullet I’m sportin’ and the partial foo-man-choo and apparently I look different.

Anyway, just thought I should brag a little… It’s been a long time coming! Less than 30 pounds left to lose now. I have until February 9th, 2006. That should be more than enough time!

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