Progress!

In the last four days, I've run/walked 7.5+ miles twice and walked 4.5 miles once, plus tennis this morning and a softball game this evening. Average (3 measurements) weight down to 180 even.

In other news, Cae seems to have mostly made up his sleep debt, and is just hopping about and hooting like nobody's business. That should be fun.

Also, there's a potentially scary thing brewing in the fam that we could use some prayer about, but I don't want to reveal until more info. has presented itself. Yikes!

And finally, some quotes from a Michael Kinsley article I enjoyed:

In a speech on March 25, McCain declared that he "will not play election-year politics with the housing crisis" but "will evaluate everything in terms of whether it might be harmful or helpful." He promised to "not allow dogma to override common sense."

In other words, he hasn't got a clue. Another word for dogma is values, and another word for politics is democracy. So McCain, by his own admission, knows little about economics, has no underlying values or principles to apply in considering what action to take and isn't interested in your opinion either.
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[Criticizing Hillary's plan]
Republicans believe you can cut taxes and bring in more money. Democrats believe you can turn mortgages that people can't afford to pay into ones that they can and it won't cost anyone a cent.

[Regarding Obama's plan]
Where is the "conversation" about the economy that's even half as sophisticated as Obama's speech about race? One that explains to people that you can't just make everything better by sending out $1,200 checks? That there is a real cost to protecting overextended homeowners from the consequences of their own folly? That, yes, there are villains here, but blaming the whole mess on villainy is missing the point? That immigration and international trade are part of the solution, not the problem?

Ladies and Gents, "Dumb Money," by Michael Kinsley.