Did not realize Jimmy John's had a pre-defined lettuce wrap option for my favorite sandwich. From their nutrition page, click the low carb header at the bottom of the left column, and click "The J.J. Gargantuan® Unwich". 6 net carbs, and that's rounding up. Now I have to go see if it's that simple to order at the local shop. Not today, but soon.

Odd: the location I'd normally go to (Randall, south of US 20) has a $25 minimum for pickup orders off the web, but one almost equally close (Randall, north of I-90) has a $3 minimum. If I have trouble communicating the order in person at the one spot I guess I can order online for the other. While not really further from home it's not so convenient in that none of my usual other stops are up there. On the south end of Randall in Elgin and South Elgin I can roll a nice itinerary of groceries, pet food, etc.

I was bad Sunday, so it's a little unexpected that I still got down to 199.0 this morning. Had a good dinner and multiple [bites of] good desserts with @dragonjaze's family. Expected FAQ on weight loss: "how?" Unexpected FAQ: "why?"

Also, it's funny what you learn when you lose 50 pounds, like how much of your friends' self-esteem was invested in weighing 40-50 pounds less than you. (Not as much as they tease, but more than they thought.)

Kind of hard to top this for Xmas:

I think she's working on one of her accessories, but I'm not entirely sure.

She has a long family story about the purchase process — not happy — but after getting some sleep she can finally look at and work on her new toy — happy.

So @dragonjaze is going to look at a truck on Friday ...

Not just any truck. She's been casually looking at trucks for months. She decided what her ideal truck would be, and was working towards saving up a down payment and planning to factory order it next year. Then it just happened that this exact formula — Nissan Frontier XLT V6, manual 4x4, premium package, in the new shade of blue they introduced for 2012 — turned up within 500 miles. One of them. Possibly the only one in the whole country at the moment. They do not sell a lot of manual transmissions in this country.

She's had a dealer keeping an eye out for one and it popped up last week. Not exactly a good bargaining position, and the price has gone up since the original negotiation. I'm sure it will be higher by Friday too. I don't know how much ground she'll give. She doesn't have the cash to budge much. She scrambled to find a bank willing to lend about eleven months' pay, not just nine or so, so she could buy it before anyone else did. That really wasn't too much trouble, so she's ready to go. The truck is on a bigger truck heading this way, with her deposit already gone.

I've been looking at ads on both dealer aggregation sites and Craigslist, and see all sorts of possibilities. If she had just one need, it could be met for a fraction of the money. Something manual, something 4x4, something V6, something with a bed for hauling, something for towing … all easily found. Something old and something blue would sure be cheaper than something borrowed and something new, but at some point her criteria expanded to include specifically buying a brand new vehicle. It started when I did the same a year ago, and she's been jealous since. She's convinced that this is the only time in her life that she'll ever be able to buy something new, and she wants to do it now.

I've been over how that doesn't add up. I've pointed out that five or six years from now (not sure what her terms are) she will be wondering why she doesn't have $25,000 in cash for a down payment on some property, like she planned. She knows she has no need for a truck, particularly after discovering that $50 set of strap-on roof racks can support her woodworking hobby nicely. She won't have the money to get the cab topper she wants, and I am willing to bet she drives around with a bed full of ice half the winter. Meanwhile the doctors debate exactly how many procedures Fog needs, and all of that will sit on a credit card for months.

It's her money, so I'm giving the best support I can while being conflicted. I do support her getting exactly what she wants for $26K or $28K, whatever it is after considering interest, rather than settling on a $23K truck in dealer stock and regretting it. I just think she'd be overall happier scratching this itch with a $5K used truck or SUV and staying with her plans for putting $20K or more down on land in Washington in about five years. It's her money ... but we're trying to build that future together, so is it mine too?

Quite a few numbers off by one inch from four weeks ago:

• Neck: 17"
• Chest: 41½"
• Bicep: 13¾"
• Stomach: 37¾"
• Waist: 36¼"
• Hips: 39½"
• Thigh: 16¾ -24"
• Weight: 201.0#

Looks like I can finally invest in 36W29L pants. 38 was a little loose the last time I wore one of them. Still need the relaxed fit in the thigh.

Meijer had coupons for roughly 20% off general merchandise good for two days only, so I went to attempt to use them. I couldn't find anything that looked good. After walking around for 30 minutes I was considering a Hello Kitty Light-Up Cosmetics Kit, but couldn't decide if Dad would like it. I stopped soon after.

And they were out of the large eggs that they had on sale at $.99, so I had to get XL for $2.05.

I just realized I have no key set up as Compose on my laptop. I need to work on keyboard mappings. The ThinkPad keyboard is great but having Fn in the corner where Control belongs is all wrong. Plus I keep hitting F1 when gonig for Esc.

I get to go to bed early this afternoon. @dragonjaze will be out most of the night at a company party. We'll see if she makes it home.

201.6 this morning. Last night my sternum was a topic of conversation. Not sure how I can make my bones any more attractive.

I actually had yesterday's Amazon Gold Box deal of a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 camera for $269 ($100 off their already Internet-best $369) not just in my cart, but checked out and being processed, before I went back and cancelled my order. That was the exact camera I picked out as being the one I would want, if I were getting a new camera. But I realized that I had some lingering doubts. Yes, it's the best compact P&S out there. I stuck up for it when @dragonjaze was looking at cameras for her birthday. But after she got one, I started looking at compact system cameras, because within twice the price there's a big jump in capabilities. I have a lot of reluctance to getting an interchangeable lens camera, because my house is pretty dusty and I can't even keep my glasses clean enough to avoid headaches. But maybe ... thus the doubt. And she has a nice new compact P&S, even if it's only an ordinary 1/2.33" sensor and 28mm equivalent wide angle. And I have a compact P&S, even if it's only a 5-6 year old 5 MP thing.

Ultimately I asked myself what toy I would get if someone took me to Fry's and said I could spend a couple hundred. Then I realized that my desire for a camera comes a couple times a year. My desire for a tablet computer comes once a week. (Less with the laptop now, but still.) My desire for a new phone comes fairly often, and I know that's not something I need except to push my current phone down to @dragonjaze, who does need an upgrade. (We're within three months of getting full subsidies and five months of being out of contract, so that can wait.) Of all the things I could do with $269, adding a third camera to the household is one of the worst.

Besides, I didn't learn about the deal until about 1:00 PM, and the moon has been in Pisces since noon yesterday so I no one is supposed to be shopping.