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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.
The Blue Chair
October 27, 2024 at 10:16pm
Twenty years ago, I used to read 15-20 novels a year. Most nights I'd spend a couple hours reading in a favorite blue chair beside my desk. But, not so much lately. You see, that chair is stacked high with research records, drafts, flash fiction efforts, memoir sections, instruction manuals, articles, and just about any other junk printed off the Internet. I have a mental difficulty in understanding what I read directly from the monitor. I have to print it and hold it in my hands to r... [Read more]


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