• I am surprised my last post didn’t generate more hate mail from the NEA
• In the last two days I have walked 7 miles on the treadmill on “Hills” level 10. That is a little like climbing Mount Monadnock on back-to-back days. And my back is okay.
• Speaking of Monadnock, I am looking for volunteers for day trips to climb partway up as practice runs. We would do this when the weather breaks, probably on one of those rare Sundays when we skip church.
• Speaking of church…if I get on my scale at home and it says “ERR” three times in a row, I assume it is God’s way of telling me “You don’t want to know what you weigh right now”. So, I don’t know what I weigh right now.
• If I were a Scientologist, would I believe it was L. Ron Hubbard telling me “You don’t want to know what you weigh right now”?
• I could never be a Scientologist. I got a C- in Biology and I never took Chemistry.
• But if I were a Scientologist, would it be considered a swear if I said “LRonHubbarddammit!”?
• I lost 10% of my body weight in 2008, and it has stayed off. Could I lose another 10% this year?
• If not, perhaps my new goal should be to become the largest person ever to climb Monadnock.
• I exercised for three weeks in a row, everyday, and then hit a wall. I took two days off last week, then got right back at it.
• I will be fifty years old in a few days, and I am humbled by that. Fifty years is a long time. I don’t feel fifty. I still think of myself as young, but not as stupid, with a lot more aches and pains. I am extremely thankful for my fifty years, especially when I think of the relationships I have with family and friends. I am also fortunate to do the work that I do. And I am respectful that many people don’t make it to fifty. I have been lucky.
• I just found out that local television stations have switched their signal from analog to digital. Boy, you would think for something as important as that, they would give us some notice, like, say, run Public Service Announcements every fifteen minutes for several months leading up to the change, or have an announcement continuosly scroll across the screen while one is watching one’s favorite shows (“Lost” and “24″, by the way), or have a panel of local “experts” that you can call, toll free, with questions, or publish articles in every news outlet known in the free world, until people go numb from hearing the same thing over and over, or maybe even have the government spend millions of dollars for converter boxes for tax-paying citizens. But to do it with no notice or fanfare? That’s un-American.
• I read recently that your waist should equal half of your height. All this time I thought I was overweight, I’m just too short!
• I only eat healthy food now, although I still eat too much. That means it costs me seven times as much to binge!
• Maybe the NEA gave me a pass on my last post. Will Scientologists do the same?
• What about Scientologists who belong to the NEA?
• How about Scientologists who are members of the NEA, who have analog televisions?