This is an open note to all my friends, girlfriends family you name it... :)

I am not skinny.  Stop using that word around me please. Do I call you all fat?  Yes I get the "that's not a negative Lars." comments, but I don't buy it.  You wouldn't say it if you didn't really mean, "Put on some weight".  

Not cool.  I'm working out like crazy and you all know it.  I'm rock hard and that seems to mean nothing.  I'm not skin and bones, I'm athletic.  I'm fit.  But you can't use those words can you?   What is the problem here?  Is everyone else just so pre-occupied with their own weight that they feel inferior to me or something?  What gives?  I got to the point I stopped and asked total strangers or people that knew me only slightly like my bank teller if I was skinny, her response, "You look better than people in magazines." 

So what is the problem here?  Look folks, if you are afraid to say something else just say it.   It's like you all got together behind my back and said..."Let's all call Lars 'skinny' this week."   When one person said it, I discounted it.  When two people said it I was thinking about it.  Now I'm hearing it more and more.  I eat right.  I eat healthy, I may do too much running and rollerblading and working out right now, but that won't last forever.  Give me a break would ya?  My arms and shoulders will get bigger and then what will every one complain about? 

Something is really weird here and it ain't me.  Not now anyhow.  Please lay off with the "skinny" word.  It wore me thin (yep, pun intended).

Lars

Have you been to the beach lately?   It seems to be getting harder and harder to find a secluded place you can enjoy on your own.  From the time I was a teenager with my buddies through my twenties and thirties I've seen the Delaware beaches become harder to access with less friendliness. 

Mind you I never liked our beaches, the water is dark, the water is cold and the surf is neither rough or tame; it has no character other than bland.    But these beaches are all I've got in driving range and for that I covet what little I got.   The beach towns get wider, the open space gets crowded out and before you know it, you have to walk a heck of a long way to a public space.  I can't say it's friendly to couples or families.   It's certainly no fun for groups unless you plan it out.  It comes down to having a beach home and fortunately I have a couple friends with that situation.  A buddy of mine working at a radio station and an old girlfriend that has been a friend for years... but that's me. What about so many other people stuck with a two hour drive and hoping a day trip will be fun?

Many times when I make a complaint I offer an answer.  Today I just have a complaint.  Bummer for us all.