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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.
Journal Musings
October 11, 2025 at 9:51pm
My attitude about learning has changes from my college days (1961-1965) to after retirement 2010 on. Engineering school was more about 'training' to perform a profession. Read, study, learn, practice, and evaluate. Always with a goal to complete a task. The state of California insisted on some humanities studies to be included in a Bachelor of Science degree. So, Northrop Institute of Technology, offered several non-technical courses to meet that requirement. I took what was needed... [Read more]


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