201¾ lb.

24.1% body fat

I have three sets of picks this year. My best set is 14-2, and my worst is 12-4, but I didn't lose a single Sweet 16 team.

However, the first Friday has always been the ends of my runs, not the first Thursday. How I do today will determine if this is a banner year or a "same-old-story" year.

In other news, my inbox has been popping lately. Not my PM box but my real, email inbox.

Lots of messages RE: BrickFest '07, since we've hit the last 2 weeks before the show in Portland (and I'm on staff, remember?), and the usual share of "cheap pharmaceuticals" spam. One thing that's been noticeably absent, however, has been stock tip spam. Oh, I still get one or two, but not the heavy hitters like, um, GDKI, CGDC, and others that wonderfully escape my memory.

And Tuesday, I found out why:

The Securities & Exchange Commission shut 'em down.

Read more in Press Release 2007-34, as the article itself is too long to actually copy & paste.

This is a victory for everyone who has an orange & purple sticker on their blog (and I know I'm not the only one, just the first B) ).

Glasses of sparkling white grape juice to my friends on BZP whose blogs fight spam!

-KIE