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Rated: 18+ · Book · Scientific · #2262478
Just stuff I thought of while getting a little exercise.
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.
Life intervenes
December 1, 2021 at 7:16pm
Ops, not much today. Being the housekeeper has levied a claim on my activities. Didn't even get to walk the mile. I had a conversation last Thursday, with my big daughter, about the future of work and the economy. What happens when the pandemic is over? I say there is a precedence to look at. The women who went into industry during the WWII had to do the work while the men were all out being killed. It had to be done. But when the war was over, most put down their welder hoo... [Read more]


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