Just so you know, I'm usually working a day ahead of myself so while Day 2 is being blogged on the Monday (or queued for blogging on the Monday), I actually did this blog and its exercises on the Sunday. So I'm sort of time-traveling here. Sort of.

Anyway, today sees me showing you Steps Plus which is the advanced level of Steps Basic... which I showed you yesterday.

Just so you know, Day 1's Wii Fit age was... 29 originally. I did it again later on and it told me it was 24. Assume 29 is correct as that was the starting age. 

This is quite possibly one of the coolest videos you've ever seen.

It has Pleo - one of the cute robotic green dinosaurs (we're getting one in the CyberShack soon) - getting to meet some dolphins.

So cool.

Oh... to be a dolphin...

I have made attempts in the past to lose weight. I have tried all manner of things... some even worked.

Billy Blanks' video workouts worked... until I got bored of memorising his script and repeating it as he spoke. 

Yourself Fitness never worked... because it got boring quickly. Agg... multiple choice answers with predictable technology underneath? Pfft! Come on!

Gamercize wasn't bad... but geeze, I could see me not liking video games for much longer if I were forced to stand on a step machine and play Guitar Hero.

So now I'm trying Wii Fit and while I've played it a few times for CyberShack TV and at the Nintendo launch for it back in March at the MCA, I've never played it like I'm going to now.

There are reviews of Wii Fit already on the web, but most are done in the style of Wii Fit as game... not Wii Fit as a tool in the process of helping you to lose weight. So that's what I'm going to do.

For the next two weeks, I shall attempt to play Wii Fit for a minimum of 40 minutes to 1 hour a day in the hopes of losing 3 kilos over two weeks. I've done 5 in one week before and that was with the high impact workouts of Billy Blanks' Tae Bo. This is a fair amount less impact based.

But to make sure I'm doing it and to let you see how it's affecting me, I'm going to take you along for the... err... ride... which probably isn't a good word to describe it.

You're coming along for the "experience". (Yeah... that'll do.)

I now present to you...

Lii Fit!

After an excruciating process of thought that will probably end up with every member of the Stark family with an iPhone except my Mum, I told my Dad to go and get me one.

Currently, an iPhone is available the ridiculous price of around 700 bucks for the 8gb version, while the translation of 399 equals roughly 420-odd dollars with the current exchange rate.

I would normally say that I should wait for the 3G version. In fact, I'm not even sure if I'll like the iPhone to be honest. But it's the problem of having a Dad with one and having a brother with one... and being a gadget guy... I'll probably just go completely nuts not having one. 

Plus the 3G one has its own share of issues.

One, it'll probably cost a bundle over here. Like everything else, actually.

Two, I don't actually use 3G. I use prepaid which currently sits me on the 2.5G network of GSM. I don't care about 3G. I don't want to make video calls or watch interactive TV. I couldn't give a shit about seeing the latest in interactive horoscopes and shudder to think that I would ever be someone who needs 3G. I use a phone to occasionally make phone calls, often receive phone calls, send a lot of messages, and occasionally listen to music... which brings me to point three...

Three, I don't have an iPod, an mp3 player, or any music device. I have previously considered buying an iPod Nano 8GB which costs 249 AU. I like the Nano and its size... but I don't think I'd use it as much and the size of the screen looks like it might bug me, though I do like the scroll wheel. And yet if I'm going to get an iPod Nano, why bother over details and worry about paying an extra 180 or so to get a good phone with it.

My current phone is the Nokia 6110 Navigator that I got for free from the job. While I reviewed it well, I don't use the GPS because I don't drive. And even if I did, I'd be lucky for it to work. Less than a year on, good luck getting the GPS in a phone to work in a timely fashion (timely being some time in the hour you turned it on).

My 6110 has issues. The battery is only good for around 3 hours of talk time and lately needs to be charged every day or two. I'm lucky if the phone doesn't need a restart once a day because of drop-outs. And the music software is so, so evil.

So while I'd normally air on the side of caution and wait for the 3G version, worst case scenario is if I ever need to upgrade my phone, I'll just sell this one.

And I never need to upgrade my phone.

Plus this will stop me from salivating over iPhones when I see people on the train with them... 

Here's an interesting translation of some erotica I wrote tonight while speaking about the subject to a friend...

But before I do... a warning:

The following lines of text might make you aroused, confused, disturbed, bored, annoyed, irritated, disgusted, or convulse and explode. Reader discretion is advised.

Ok... so we start with the following statement...

"Oh yes. Let me fuck you. I'm fucking you in your tight ass. You're tight because I'm so big. Yeah bitch."

...and then with a bit of literary tact (I'm lying about that bit), we can turn it into...

"Such joy as I pound your tight virginal asshole with my throbbing member the size of a small Ethiopian child! I let it breach your insides, in and out, in and out, until war is made with several countries!"

Shakespeare would be proud. 

I've been working on this on and off throughout the year.

It's a dress-up doll of me in Flash with actual pieces of clothing from my wardrobe!!!

Yes... go on... dress me up, but if you'd like to undress me in real life, why not send a holler this way... we can both have some fun...

--err... yeah.

Just go on and play with me dress-up doll.  

It's a quarter to eight in the morning on my day off and I'm sitting in a bus in a line of cars heading into the city.

It's a cold day. Everyone is bundled up and wearing something warm; not a t-shirt in sight.

It's my day off and I'm up early.  I didn't even want the full day off though, merely the morning.

As I sit in a queue that barely moves, I curl my toes up in the thick cotton socks keeping the coldest parts of me warm.

I'm on my way to support Bowie at RAFW. He's invited me out every year since I've started working for him, but until now I've always had something else to do. Ironically, I would have had an interview to do but I've decided to make this a priority.

I've never attended a fashion show before. I hope I don't fall asleep.

"Just look at the hot model girls," my brain tells me. "Then you'll be fine."

 

While I work on a book or two, it dawns on me that I'll need something somewhat useful on the back cover of the book (or at least the flap) informing the reader about myself.

Because that's what writers do. Apparently.

So realising this, I have today come up with what I would like to use on that back cover (or flap). It follows:

 

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Leigh D. Stark is a curious fellow who speaks with a hybrid Australian-American accent not unlike the Toyota Prius. He also tends to refer to himself in the third person just as he chose to do so when he expressed his desire to write this paragraph. In the end though, logic got the better of him and he attempted to train a hamster he once found in a Toyota Prius to write it for him. Unfortunately, the hamster stole Leigh's date to the prom so Leigh has been forced to write this paragraph himself. He knows the hamster would wish to express his sincere regrets and apologies before being crushed to death in the mouse trap that Leigh left out for him baited with blond women.

Regardless, Leigh speaking from the third person would like to inform the reader that if they quite like the content & written material that they are reading, they can find an almost daily load usually written in the first person at www.leighlo.com

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Feel free to leave your opinions on my excerpt which I will more than likely ignore. 

Occasionally I buy things with the expressed intention of showing them on my blog to the twenty or thirty people that frequent it.

This is one of those times.

Anyone who reads my blog would have picked up that with my lack of luck in the lust department, I probably wouldn't get to use these until they're damn near expired.

That not withstanding, if you're about to use an Ansell condom for a sexual activity (as opposed to using them as a replacement for chewing gum), "FREE HUGS" is pretty trivial in comparison. 

Just testing a device I have to review and using it for something... unique...

Here is my little test from this evening converting the Nikon D300 to a video camera...

Oh yes. I can occasionally surprise you.

Occasionally.

And yes, you're looking at my laundry. I apologise. Next time I'll order some hot women for you to look at. :P