Let's see. Same old same old with me. A bit less of me as DH and I are seriously dieting. He has lost a lot more than me, but both still headed in the right direction.

Still married and living in the same place with the most excellent DH. Still have 2 teenage boys, that is as stressful as one might imagine. 23 years now owning this business with DH. Business is also stressful.

Mom is 90 now and doing pretty good all things considered. Brandy is 15 and not doing too good. Starting her on some new drugs for canine cognitive dysfunction in addition to her pain and arthritis meds.

Most exciting new stuff is we have a new bigger shiny boat. One of my doctors had to get rid of it because his mother told him he didn't have time for a boat with his 4 kids. Gotta love the Chinese matriarch that doesn't hesitate to tell her grown physician son how to live his life, and he doesn't consider not doing as he is told. So they had it appraised and sold it to us for half price. Now if only I had time to use it.

Don't have nearly the amount of time I would like to spend here, but I try and catch up with Recent on the weekend.

Okay, Laura just did the best meara ever. I love this thread, as much for the juicy nugget-sized life-bits, as for the delurkers and re-delurkers coming around for the first time in forever (or actually ever). It's like the recaplet version of all those things that have been going on in the threads I barely manage to keep up with the rest of the year!

I'm not sure any of that was actual English.

As for me, I'm still in the same town and the same house with the same dude. But we both have new jobs (him: left the bookstore for a way cool office! me: left the looniversity to freelance!) and a new cat. We all mess with computers a lot. Including, unfortunately, the cat.

Crazy amounts of our time go into fencing. I tend not to talk about it all that much, because, seriously, jus t because it takes 10,000 hours to master a sport doesn't mean that y'all should have to spend that whole 10,000 hours listening to me bitch about how pissed I am that I've been holding my blade, like, 3 degrees off where I want it this whole time and anyway I stink and my quads hurt.

Who do you find a good fit for the exercise?

For me, I like podcasts that are funny, engaging, and nerdy, because when I'm listening to them I barely even notice that I've been on the treadmill for an hour.

My top three are Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, The Nerdist, and WTF with Marc Maron.

Oh! I should try exercise with Cabin Pressure.

Not a lot has changed since last year. Weight flutuates, job eats brain, kid eats brain leftovers. Down one cat, up one dog.

Oh, Wait Wait is a great idea! That show flies for me.

So amych, do you have video of you fencing up somewhere? I would love to see your swagger.

I heard this on the radio this morning - a website that lets you pick music to match your heart rate.

So amych, do you have video of you fencing up somewhere? I would love to see your swagger.

No, I don't having anything to put up anywhere, but ::blush:: -- when I look at video I'm mostly thinking "what do I need to work on", not swagger!

Other way good podcasts--the Kevin Pollack Chat Show and The Proopcast from Greg Proops. Smart and funny.

Wow! You have no idea how much time I have spent finding music that is just the right beats per minute. It makes such a difference.

(do we get stomped for Nattering here?)

eta: Marking all the ideas!

I have pictures of amych fencing when she was at the tournament in Cincinnati almost exactly a year ago: [link] and [link] It was excellent to watch.