For over a week now, I've gladly embraced the single-use, Keurig K-Cup life. OK, so I'm a little late to the party-for-one, me party, as the company itself was founded as I entered high school listening radio songs like Hey Jealousy, Nearly Lost You, Would?, and Man on the Moon. OK, I'll concede it took a bit to gain critical mass. And, contextually, the first Starbucks in Memphis opened in October 1999. But for me in 1992 at 14, coffee, like girls, was an enigma to be solved.

While the prices per serving are eyebrow-raising, a feature that makes my kitchen JUST like a coffeehouse, I have fallen in love with the variety.

Of course, the cornerstone of it all is my beloved Vitamix 7500. I just finished up a span of days without its container for warranty replacement. I tried all sorts of ways to make my butter fuse with my coffee manually for my iced beverages, but none is like the creamery of a Vitamix.

It really is a critical component of my high-fat carnivore implementation. I've now had 7 Expeditions—a total of 42 weeks—where every six-weeks my weightloss was in the double digits. That's rather remarkable, ESPECIALLY in the context of achieving satiety. It's just too bad I had that 33rd Expedition that was crippled by existential malaise. But now in my 13th week of my HFC return...well, cue this song from The 17th Expedition.

Bon Jovi released a deluxe edition of his first album today, something I returned to during my 3 AM hour. I owned it as a kid on cassette and knew it by heart even if it was a purchase I made over at the State Tech Walmart because I confused its Shot Through the Heart with the later, You Give Love a Bad Name.

I found this endearing: Runaway - Cassette Writing Demo. I ran through my entire routine this morning through the studio portion. Then I met my 4:15 AM appointment with the rain, but only did 2¼ miles because of a foot ding that developed, something that surfaced earlier that morning from a couple of unexpected pops during my stretches. I'm serious about December, but I gotta go the distance and NOT do something stupid. If I pushed on, the only thing out there that would have seen it was a soaking rabbit and that cat with the green headlights.