It’s very surreal to wake up, notice that you have a blog comment to approve (which happens, umm, relatively neverish for me), check your blog stats to see why, and get this:

Well, isn’t that odd? I think to myself, unless my wife or the Peruvian farmer who doesn’t speak English well and thinks this is a gardening blog accidentally clicked on my page 1200 extra times in a spurt of caffeine-fueled confusion.  So I wander to Facebook, where I see Bob Harper’s link…to here.  To my blog.  Which is strange and surreal, and definitely the coolest thing that has happened to me in a long time.  So, I wanted to say, Thank You, Bob!  Not for the link, though, honestly, which is pretty damn cool.  Actually, I want to say thanks for being a big part of me reaching my goals.  See, I wanted to be 185 pounds by Labor Day.  Today, I weighed myself, and it read 184.5.  So, thanks Bob, because if it wasn’t for you and Jillian, I don’t think I would have made it.

Now I’m counting on you to help me with the other half: being able to do 100 consecutive pushups.  If those plank row/T-stand/pushup exercises don’t do it, I’m not sure anything will.