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Links to all the blog posts that have appeared on Jon of All Trades and Eks Axis.

Thirty-two

August 29, 2013 Jon Blog, Inside My Head, Music 1 Comment

Having set this up earlier this week, let’s dive right into it. I used to call this feature “Songs to Close Out Your Summer” when I wrote it for Cru Jones Society, and I think I was probably a bit too optimistic regarding my ideas about its impact on the readership. “Oh hey, I’ve been…

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Mix

August 27, 2013 Jon Blog, Inside My Head, Music 0 Comments

I made my first birthday mix CD by accident. Since that night, I’ve made one every year since, and I used to write about the selections. Last year, I had no outlet, so I wrote no article about it. I still made the CD, which felt a little weird, because this CD is usually a…

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Learnings

August 23, 2013 Jon Blog, How I Lost 40 Lbs., Inside My Head 2 Comments

This week’s series of posts chronicles how I lost 40 lbs. Each day is dedicated to a different aspect of that process. Today’s post is part 5 of 5, and it covers all the weird shit I learned along the way. Undergoing weight loss means you learn a bunch of random shit about yourself. As…

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Exercise

August 22, 2013 Jon Blog, How I Lost 40 Lbs., Inside My Head 7 Comments

This week’s series of posts chronicles how I lost 40 lbs. Each day is dedicated to a different aspect of that process. Today’s post is part 4 of 5, and it covers the essential uselessness of exercise in terms of weight loss, but why you should do it anyway. I like to exercise. I feel…

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Routine

August 21, 2013 Jon Blog, How I Lost 40 Lbs., Inside My Head 2 Comments

This week’s series of posts chronicles how I lost 40 lbs. Each day is dedicated to a different aspect of that process. Today’s post is part 3 of 5, and it covers how I established an eating routine and how (and when) I broke it. So what is my routine? I wake up each morning…

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Tool

August 20, 2013 Jon Blog, How I Lost 40 Lbs., Inside My Head 4 Comments

This week’s series of posts chronicles how I lost 40 lbs. Each day is dedicated to a different aspect of that process. Today’s post is part 2 of 5, and it covers the tool I used to help with my weight loss. Only one other time in my life have I lost a bunch of…

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Weight

August 19, 2013 Jon Blog, How I Lost 40 Lbs., Inside My Head 2 Comments

When I stepped on the scale on November 25, 2012, I weighed 225.0 lbs. When I stepped on the scale on August 14, 2013, I weighed 183.4 lbs. It took me nearly nine months, but I lost 40 lbs, which was my goal. I did it slowly, and I did it deliberately. When you lose…

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Century

August 14, 2013 Jon Blog, News 0 Comments

This is my 100th post for Eks Axis. I opened this blank page without a real idea of what I wanted to say about it, but knowing I wanted to acknowledge the moment somehow. No one would know this is the 100th post unless I brought it up, but I suppose that’s the bitch of…

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Adjustment

August 8, 2013 Jon Blog, Goofiness 0 Comments

I have a colleague who recently moved from the Washington, DC area to the Houston area with his family. I know what it’s like to move to the Houston area, so this post is dedicated to him, even though I have no intention of ever sharing it with him. (I like to keep this blog…

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Badd

August 6, 2013 Jon Blog, Music, Rumpy Pumpy 0 Comments

When I was 10, I asked my mom to take me to Budget Tapes and CDs to buy me the new Color Me Badd album, C.M.B. As this was 1991, and Tipper Gore was still fresh in every parent’s mind espousing the horrible sexual and violent content of today’s music artists, I stood in horror…

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