Not much on the agenda today besides work, work and more work. It's pretty much been the same thing every day here for the past thousand years or so. Thus, the lack of posts about anything even remotely interesting lately.

I spoke with my dad yesterday. He met with the surgeon on Monday and was told they are going to postpone operating until my dad loses more weight. Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but my dad is morbidly obese and has been for most of his adult life. He recently paricipated in a weight loss challenge with a co-worker and lost 40 pounds, which is fantastic, but he's still very overweight and the doctor wants him to lose at least another 50 before they will consider doing his hip replacement. My dad's always been been in a bit of denial about his weight because he's always been, as he says, "in perfect health aside from needing to lose some weight" - his EKG doesn't show any problems, his blood pressure is low, his cholesterol and other test results are all in normal ranges. I've tried to explain to him that, regardless of the test results, carrying around 200+ extra pounds is far from "perfect health". He's a walking time bomb for a heart attack, no matter what his EKG says, his asthma is out of control, his back is in such bad shape it's irreparable and now he needs hip replacement. That is far from perfect. I'm hoping this postponement will be the wake up call that he needs to really get serious about losing some more weight.