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7694 to Go

Okay, my first full day with my new pedometer, and I’ve hit 2306 by noon. That’s good and bad. Good because at least it’s not 200. Bad because I have to do that three more times to hit the “10000 a day” you’re supposed to do for heart health and weight loss.

Now I know that I could take the long way around the building to stuff, and go out for an extra walk and easily hit 10k, but I’m trying to see what a “normal ” day is for me. As in, how many extra steps on top of my normal hike to the building from the parking lot, and hike from my desk to the cafeteria will I need to add to my day. I told someone I guessed I would get somewhere between 6000 and 7000 without any extra work. Now that it’s noon and I see my current total, I may have to downgrade that to 5000 because I’ve already done two of my three trips to the cafeteria for the day. And round trip that’s 500 or so steps. Add the steps back to the car (400, I think?) and either I have to make many many many trips to the printer and the bathroom this afternoon, or I’m going to have an embarrassingly low total.

Let’s see, there was something else I was going to mention. Crap, what was it? I’m sure it was something good so that Adam would put me back on the home page of Universal Hub. Ever since he canned Boston-Common I haven’t made his home page once. I need to go out and get a news story about Charlestown, apparently.

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Actually, It’s Still the Middle of Winter Here

I ordered a mess of kites from the fatbraintoys.com website a few weeks back, and got them about a week ago, but obviously haven’t been able to do anything with them yet, what with all the snow and below freezing temperatures. And aside from my personal comfort, I have the nagging suspicion that kites do better in warm air than cold air. (I am not a scientist. Do not mock me if I’m completely wrong about this.)

I got a follow-up email from them yesterday saying something like “By now, you’ve probably had a chance to try out your kite, and we’d love to hear your feedback.”

Sure, throw it in my face that I haven’t been able to use my new sleddy sled kite, ya boogerheads. At this rate, I figure by April we may have a frostbite free day or two to give one a spin.

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The Gahden!

Well, for once I’m happy with my bank – BankNorth.

Congrats on giving Boston back “The Garden”. I’m glad you guys are using the common sense God gave you.

Althought I don’t know what the “TD” stands for, and will never use it when referring to the BankNorth Garden.

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Step One

I loved the commercial I heard on the radio this morning. It told us to put Scott’s Step 1 on our lawns “right now” except for the small problem of a foot of snow out there and the temperature not scheduled to go over freezing for the next week or two.

I don’t have snow tires on my spreader, anyway.

So people, for the love of all that is frozen, don’t do that.

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