States of things

Windows 10: Installed on my 7″ and 10″ tablets, and my affection for it is growing. My desktop is still at 8.1 because I have daily need for a program that doesn’t work on Windows 10 yet. On my phone, I gave up on trying to be a cutting-edger with Windows 10 Mobile preview builds and went back to Windows Phone 8.1. The preview builds are just too rough for my taste.

Musical instruments in the house: I just ordered another trumpet for another son.

Cable television: Bo: “True or false: I am the only user of cable television in the house.”
Lea (without hesitation): “True.”
Sigh. I suspected as much. It’s just sports anymore, really. The IndyCar season is over August 30. I can solve most of the football problem with over-the-air and ESPN/ESPN2 for $20/month. But what do I do when IndyCar starts back in March?

Waistline: Think I could sell myself “100 pounds in 500 days” as a mantra and stay with it? Guess how many days to 2017? Guess how much I’d like to lose? That kind of synchronicity can’t be an accident, can it?

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