got Friday off!

Wow! What a couple of days! Pleasure button is being pushed a lot. I've been losing weight, people are noticing and commenting, and my ego is preening about it. Gotta watch that. When my ego gets too strong I start to lose perspective, start to take credit, and lose the good stuff I'd gotten. Less ego, more observation!

It didn't stop yesterday. At my exercise session today, I got lots more attention. It's getting rather heady. I'm now at the weight I was when I met my future bride. Wheat was the linchpin... give it up and all else follows. My appetite is a shadow of its former self.

I dropped my daughter off at her day camp, did my exercise, and returned for an impromptu concert. Lots of noise, lots of fun. Then, with my all-day parking pass, I walked around my old neighborhood, looking at places I lived, remembering what if felt like 20 years ago to be me, and realizing how lucky I am to have my wife & daughter - they anchor me, keep my feet on the ground, keep it real for me. Otherwise I'd probably get into all kinds of trouble. Anyway I had a wonderful time walking around, enjoying my endorphins from the exercise, and feeling pretty durned strong for a 52-year-old, and light on my feet.

The death star has landed on Fry St. The Empire has struck back, and little Fry St. was no match for it. But one side of the street remains somewhat intact. The apartments I used to live in, the head shop, the copy shop. Ironically the site of the old Sigma Alpha Mu house is now the Christian Student Center - it sounds like the beginning scenario for a teen slasher movie...

I went to work and worked a little on my Linux & Education project. That was fun. Then I went home and spent time with my dogs, and continued my sight-reading project. I'm reading the entire Dover Bach Keyboard Music book, 350-some-odd pages. I made it to p. 104 today. And I'm reading a little faster, or a little more musically (choose one).

Then my family came home and I made dinner - too much habanero! Sorry. Then I came to the coffee house to blog.

A great day. I was gonna watch Spider Man but so what...