Friday,  December 28, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 162 • 3 of 32 •  Other Editions

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plod and slog up and down.
• Of course there are drawbacks to steps.  For instance, as a boomer, we all walk into a room and think "Now why did I come in here?"  With steps, it's 16 steps up,

wonder why you're there, go back down 16 steps and then remember why you needed to go there.  Then it's back up 16 steps and then back down.  But we learn to adapt like writing down the reason to go into a room upstairs.  Or my wife may find me sitting in a room with a vacant look on my face.  She'll ask if I'm ok and I'll explain I'm just sitting until whatever I needed comes back to me before I do the 16 extra steps.
• I pity the day I'm in the basement and need something on the top floor.  Thirty two steps up, 32 down only to realize I didn't get everything I needed.  Then it's 32 up, 32 down.
• On the flip side of the coin, South Dakotans' are getting fatter according to the fat police.  They say most everyone in the state is obese.  You saw that story.  It made you nervous, didn't it?  So exercise is good.  People spend real money joining gyms, buying expensive treadmills and step machines.
• If you had my house, you wouldn't need any of that fancy fat burning equipment.  You would be naturally healthy, buffed beauties bounding through the house and up and down the stairs.  Yes, when we do sell our house, we're going to market our house as a heart rehab house.  It probably won't be anytime soon because first we need to clean it out.  But that's another article.   

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