MORE ADVICE

AND THIS WAS TEN YEARS AGO!

This note is an addendum to my recent advice-column on how to travel when you are old and feeble:\

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My  reconsidered advice is – DON’T!

This comes about because of my experiences yesterday.  I flew home from Borrego Springs, a flight of about 3.5 hrs duration.  My friends Jay and Penny accompanied me to Palm Springs, to see that I didn’t get into trouble.  Nevertheless – I managed to leave my cell phone, with my boarding pass on it, in the rental car.  It took an hour and extraordinary effort/ingenuity on Jay’s part to retrieve the damned thing.  Jay ran around, searching, while Penny (driving their jeep) puzzled over the delay – and I, of course, could only sit still around feeling old and stupid.

Well, I did get home, and after logging much time in the recliner feel able to compose this warning.  My current plan is to travel only by car in the future, and that with someone else doing the driving – and consign planes, trains, and auto-buses to the fondly remembered past.  But, unfortunately, I still want to go to Cordova to see my growing family, to Wisconsin to see the new herd of cows, and to Asheville to see Carolyn and the trees.

GET OFF YOUR DUFF!

So, it says here, most people spend 10 or 11 hours each day, sitting.  It also says that this is bad for your overall health – and, in particular, your risk if dying.  The advice is: get at least 30 minutes of low-intensity exercise (e.g., walking) every day.  It doesn’t even have to be 30 consecutive minutes – apparently you reap the benefit even if you get it by going to the refrigerator for a beer, often enough.  That would entail frequent trips to the bathroom, too, thus multiplying the benefit.

As for me, I am in complete compliance.  For one thing, I spend at least 12 hrs/day in a horizontal position, when you consider my mid-morning and mid-afternoon naps.  And, of course, I have to stumble around feeding myself and washing things.  And, yes, the bathroom and I are very well acquainted.  And I play golf whenever the opportunity arises.  Now to post this thing and stop sitting.  I feel a nap coming on.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/light-activity-may-lower-harmful-effects-sitting

THE LORD APPEARS TO LOVE BOSTON. WHY?

It certainly appears that the Lord has a soft spot in his heart for the otherwise unremarkable city of Boston.  At least, He seems to provide them with sporting super heroes on a regular basis.  First there was this gentleman

                                                    

Followed by this one

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And lately by this well-paid fe[[ow

 But, as someone once said, the Lord can forgive sin but stupid is forever.  They traded this one away