A little more news ...

.... about my renewed efforts at keeping up the blog as a sort of mini-journal.

1. I hope to make a few regular notes regarding how "well/regularly" I've been able to exercise and walk, and how my diet (not "dieting," but simply watching what, and how much, I eat) is going. For example, today I completed my 3 sets of weights, then this evening we ate a reasonably decent meal at the mall food court (chicken, rice, broccoli for me) then walked the mall for 30 minutes or so, logging 2.02 miles.

2. I wanted to mention the book I read some 3-4 weeks ago, "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. In it he offers an excellent, and simple, method of tracking all your differing activities and priorities in all the various areas of your life, either using high-tech methods (i.e., computer/palm pilot, etc.) or low-tech (i.e., daytimer, note cards, pen/pencil, etc.). The idea, simply put, is to simply get everything into your system (dates, deadlines, to dos, reminders, and so on) so that you can reduce or eliminate the tendency to use "mental energy" trying to remember stuff (or fretting that you didn't). If it's all written down someplace you check regularly, & you're confident it is, then you won't use up mental capacity or energy worry about stuff. I've found that, especially as I get older, "systems" greatly enable me to be more confident about stuff: files where I can find things, keeping similar things together, putting the bills always in the box, then paying them at about the same time each month ... that sorta' things. I make a lot of notes about all sorts of stuff in MS Outlook on my laptop, then synch it with (a) the Palm Pilot (which I seldom use) and (b) My Yahoo (a great backup of my upcoming "stuff"). If you don't have a system like this - find one, it's that helpful, and that important.