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Just stuff I thought of while getting a little exercise. |
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The doctor was serious. "You are getting too lazy for a 78 year-old. Watch your diet, then do some exercise to burn off a hundred calories every day." A writer's life is sitting in a chair. I can't stand just exercising, pumping iron, push-ups. So, I had to come up with something interesting while getting a little exercise. Our neighborhood has 23 McMansions on 1 acre lots. It's about one mile round trip to walk past them all. At my normal gait, it takes about 25 minutes. MtFitnessPal says 25 minutes at 3.5 mph is worth 129 calories. So that's what I'll do... but at first it might be a little boring. But 25 minutes, doing a mindless task, allows the mind to wonder. Maybe I can make it into a mindless blog. |
Should we or shouldn't we? November 23, 2021 at 10:28am Last Friday I came back home and the wife asked, "What's new out there?"
I thought about a minute, then came up with a dozen small things I had notices in the last month or so. Here's one:
"The neighbor, two houses down, hooked up to city water. I wonder if it's because the state tested some wells and found PFAS contamination one point above the limit."
"Should we do the same?"
"Are you kidding? That'll be $6,000."... [Read more] |
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