Today's weight is 217.6. I did not get up in time this morning to make my walk, so I walked at lunch. I walked about a mile and it took a good 20 minutes. I did not time myself today because I walked down to the ATM at my bank. The distance and the timing would not have been comparable to my course at home. In any event, I was breathing hard the whole way.
I've been talking so much about my health issues here that it has kind of focused all my attention on MEEEEEEEE.
I need to remember that others have it worse. Take for example, my friend Rick Utter. Rick is a guy I've known all my life. His parents were friends with my parents. I went to school with Rick. We don't hang together a lot now but we run into each other from time to time.
A few years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer. I think it was Lung Cancer. It finally caught up with him last Saturday. Rick was a year younger than me and a great guy. I remember in high school he got interested in welding and he starting making these bumble bees out of wire. Then he would weld a support base around a rock and a three foot long piece of wire that he would attach to the bee. I kind of swung around at the end of the wire. It was a cool little home furnishing item.
He sold these things for 20 bucks, back in the 70's and he sold them as fast as he made them.
That's the kind of guy Rick was. Inventive and business savvy.
He will be missed!
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I'm very sorry to here of Rick's passing, Stanley. Another of our generation bites the dust. Like you, Rick was an artistic type and a "maker." I know little bout his life except that he bought and fixed up houses and had done well for himself that way, and was quite a hard worker. I know this form Carol Ann, who I must have run into at my LC class reunion 10 years ago this summer.
-Mchammed
( I wonder if anyone will ever read this comment?)
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