Good morning folks. Beautiful day in the east. Sunny and cool.
Back from my long weekly hike on Saturday morning. I've logged 19,613 steps on my phone already. Feels like I'm ready for intermittent dozing the rest of the day with the football game on in the background. I did pass a milestone in my efforts to carve my weight from 250 to something more healthy. I'm down to 218 now. My goal is 212. At my age if I get below that I'll be losing muscle.
My son is enjoying his first few days in Burnet, Texas. I hope he's as happy after a week of work. He's definitely not afraid of hard work and I think he has what it takes to do what they need him to do. He sent us some lovely photos of the sun setting behind some Texas hills, along the Colorado River (the one in Texas. This originally confused me because when I was about his age, back when I was pipelining in the mid-1970s, I lived along the Colorado River in Grand Junction, Colorado, while we laid a line through the desert in eastern Utah. It didn't seem possible it could be the same river that rolled on to the west from Colorado to California, and it isn't. I guess I'm the only one who didn't know this.)
Hope the Cats can salvage something today on the football field. I'd like to see one game where the running game, passing game and defense all seemed to play to potential. I don't think that has happened yet. Maybe today's the day.
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