I opened my mail - the Toronto Art Expo has accepted me as an exhibitor at the February show

Yes, it costs major bucks to get in. Yes I have never to the show before, and have no clue how I should be hanging/displaying artwork there. There are a lot of things to be done - get a website, make some more art, get some small yet classy signage made . . .

Hot damn, I'm in. First acceptance of any real note since I moved here. This is the big leagues, and I am going to the Show

Now, has anyone attended this particular show before? The dividers are curtains of some sort apparently. I don't have a modular hanging system and don't wish to invest in one - but the attached video to the website seems to show people using chains hanging from the divider pipes to suspend art. I could use some input from any attendees/artists/patrons. Feeling a tad flustered. Maybe it is such a large investment that I am flapping about unnecessarily. After...

I'm posting the last of my self-serving weight/fat blogs for the forseeable future. I hit the numbers I thought were important (if you think numbers are important with this stuff). So it was a successful 4 month run in that I lost 20 pounds and am stronger than when I started. The bad news is that there is a blip, a back-slide in the fat % this last month. I didn't think I've been that bad when it comes to treats, carbs and fruit juice - but the numbers are there

age: 52
height: 5' 11"
weight: 191 lbs
BMI: 26.6
BMR: 7530 kJ
1800 kcal
Impedance: 397 ohms
fat %: 21%
fat mass: 40.2 lb
ffm: 150.8 lb
tbw: 110.4 lb
..............
desirable range
fat % 11-22%
fat mass 19.0 - 43.4 lb

What I've done is drop another 2.4 lbs since the last check-in, but gain 2 pounds of fat. So I am losing weight, but the loss has to be muscle. I don't feel weaker - actually I am really...

I am taking part in the Bayview Art Tour this weekend. Any TO folks who want to drop by, pm me re details

I've been anxious (never a good thing with me) about this for a while. Getting down to the wire I find myself less than full-to-the-brim with charity and warm fuzzy thoughts. eg I mutter and snarl to myself about the passersby in that eternal bullshit dance we call urban traffic. The work that has been done and is yet to be done has had me feeling both tired and very antsy. Nothing like a sleepless night due to a shiny new cold, achy knees that protest whenever I clamber about mounting/moving artwork, the things that seem to be left undone.

My biggest concern is a holdover from the installation disaster I had a year ago, when I had an opening in this nice little bistro and spent a lot of energy and money prepping for it and telling folks about it. Nobody came. Nobody said anything about it. Nobody bought a thing. Total failure, total reset of...

These blog entries are boring as dried mud, I know. But they are helping me keep track of the change I decided to shoot for a couple of months ago. I'll do one more when I have my 52nd birthday next month, then keep this particular self-involvement out of the direct gaze of TFP. Besides, when I start to scale back from those 45 minute stints on the treadmill I might start blimping up again. Hate to share my regression with the virtual world

age: 51
height: 5' 11"
weight: 193.4 lbs
BMI: 27
BMR: 7646 kJ
1827 kcal
Impedance: 388 ohms
fat %: 19.8%
fat mass: 38.2 lb
ffm: 155.2 lb
tbw: 113.6 lb
..............
desirable range
fat % 11-22%
fat mass 19.0 - 43.4 lb

Lost 3.6 pounds since the last check-in. A total of 5 pounds of fat lost this past month. I like the change from 21.9% to 19.8% body fat. One pound of water gained and I have added half a pound of muscle...

The Tanita Body Composition Analyzer

age: 51
height: 5' 11"
weight: 197 lbs
BMI: 27.5
BMR: 7768 kJ
1857 kcal
Impedance: 412 ohms
fat %: 21.9%
fat mass: 43.2 lb
ffm: 153.8 lb
tbw: 112.6 lb
..............
desirable range
fat % 11-22%
fat mass 19.0 - 43.4 lb

I'm down about 7 1/2 pounds in a month. 3 pounds of fat, 4 pounds of water - would that last half pound be brain tissue? According to my Lady, I have puzzled her the last few days by apparently acting cognitively impaired (she finds stupidity a deal-breaker ).

Not sure what to make of the blood pressure reading. It said 113/69 - but has read as high as 126/78 recently so I don't know if there are glitches or misreads or what. Resting heart rate sitting here with coffee and typing was 78 bpm, which is elevated from the 72 I had a month ago.

I took Martian's comments about...