PTI doesn't work in Guam...or does it?

I was in Guam in March and in April for about a week and a week and a half, respectively. Both times my PTI cellphone worked, I was just charged for roaming (I think).

This visit my phone won't work. Somebody told me that there is some combination of buttons I could press to make it work.

Anybody know how to make my phone work?

Count the chins

Laurie took this fat guy picture of me during our co-ed game on Wednesday. We lost 2-0. I figured I'd put it out there before she used it against me.

To add to my misery, I failed the international referee fitness test this morning. I passed the first part, where I had to run 6 x 40 m under 6.4 seconds each. I failed the second part where we had to run 20 x 150 m in under 30 seconds each.

I chose to skip breakfast this morning and only drank water. You know what happens to me when I over exert myself, right.

Yeah. It happened.

Thank God I didn't eat.

Anyway, I finished 9. That was punishment enough.

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So what I'm trying to get at is I joined the Body Success Challenge at Gold's Gym, or as I prefer to call it, the Fat Guy Contest.

The contest runs from June 15 - September 15 and the winner is the person to lose the largest percentage of their original weight, mine being 200 lbs.

I thought I 'd make this really tough on myself and continued to pig out and drink beer right up until...Wendesday. Now I'm getting serious. I started "competing" during about the second lap this morning.

I am officially on a diet. No more beer.

I mean it. No more beer!

...and hopefully I'll have only one chin come August.

Good Luck, Jeff

Jeff Turbitt shipped out this week with his wife, Cynthia, and three kids, Alex, Carl, and Ashley. He's off to Arizona where he'll teach the good children of the desert proper grammar and sentence structure.

I first met Jeff in person (we actually met online) at Godfathers and I said goodbye to him at Godfathers as well.

Good luck, Bro. I hope our paths cross again.

South Carolina Monument Update

The Sunday edition of the Charlotte Observer carries a story about a proposed marine monument stretching from North Carolina to Florida.

There's a lot of stuff in the article to dissect.

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A year ago today I was leading a summer camp for local public school students.

Two years ago today I went hiking along the Banadero Trail.

Three years ago today I was working for the League of Conservation Voters.

Three straight years of environmental activities. Four if you count today's meetings. How boring. So remind me again why is it that you people read my blog?

The End is Nigh

Rays are the best in baseball.
Glitch in the Matrix.
What's next, a black president?

Just a simple haiku to explain my utter incomprehension of the American League East. I don't know if I can live in a world where the Rays are playing 0.605 ball...and the Cubs are the best team in the National League?

Forget global warming, what's going on with MLB?

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Jeff Turbitt is returning to the land of NASCAR and handguns. His sharp wit and his shiny head will be greatly missed.

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Lil Hammerhead has another candidate poll up on his blog. Follow this link and then vote for Angelo Villagomez.

A New Hope!

Yes We Can!

We Want Change!

Biba Villagomez!

Do it for your country!

Name that Spot

Laurie and I took Heather on an island tour today. Can you guess where this is? I have no idea who Deanne L Coffee is. Any ideas?

William Aila Jr on MP 96950

William Aila Jr, Cinta Kaipat and Jay Nelson appaeared on John O Gonzalez' TV talk show, MP 96950, last month to talk about the experience of Indigenous Hawai'ians with the designation and management of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and the proposed Mariana Trench Marine National Monument. I cut the hour long program into six 10 minute long segments and put them up on Youtube.

John's show is on every other Wednesday on KSPN Channel 2. As far as I know, you have to be on Saipan to watch it. I don't think it is rebroadcast anywhere else. Although we mostly use English on this episode, the show, as far as I know, is the only regular Chamorro language television program in existence.

Here is the show: