Several weeks ago I decided to start using the treadmill that’s been sitting downstairs for several years. I could do thirty minutes a day five days a week, and that has generally worked out. Fortunately there’s a makeup day on Saturday if I miss a day during the week, which I did this week for the IT Breakfast on Thursday.

We have a very high-tech bathroom scale that has also been in a lonely hiding place. I dug it out on the first day on the treadmill, stepped on it, and the blinking display said, “OL”. That’s it. Nothing more. I was thinking that means something like Over Limit. The book to the scale has long since disappeared so I just put the scale back into its hiding place until today.

Today I got a real (big) number. I’m no longer over the limit! At least it’s going the right way.