Happy mid-day, friends.  I have some thoughts to accompany your lunch today.

My trip yesterday to the Proto-Type Athlete room is bearing painful fruit today.  I had requested some exercises to work off the last of the flab around my middle.  That’s exactly what I got and now I can barely move.  Hopefully, I will recover by tomorrow.  I will have to consider some of these exercises for my usual routine.  They kind of meld resistance training with cardio work for a burning, exhausting experience.  Give it a try if you can.  I’ll report more fully if I make it.

Has anyone else been requested to have a phycial exam by your “insurance” “provider”?  I received a two page form that made no sense, even to an attorney.  I think they want me to get poked, probed, and measured.  Why?  I bet it has something to do with President Sotoro’s plan to decimate healthcare in Amerika.  I would call the company for clarification but I find those calls as enlightening as a call to the DMV.  At least I’m in shape for once if the exam is mandatory.  Yuck.

My Alma mater, the University of Georgia, has unveiled new athletic uniforms and logos (the Big “G” remains the same, wheeew).  I suspect this is a scheme by Nike to boost profits.  Own Nike stock?

The Atlanta school cheats, including the former superintendent, have all turned themselves in to authorities.  View their mug shots here, courtesy of the AJC: http://www.ajc.com/gallery/news/booking-photos-aps-educators/g8qM/#3263056.  Why am I thinking about Alice Cooper now?

Also from the AJC, read this inspirational story about a man who kicked the fat habit: http://www.ajc.com/news/lifestyles/health/charlie-sheffield57-of-alpharetta-ga-lost-82-pound/nXBX7/.  “One day, my trainer said that some of the folks at the studio told her that they wanted to be built like the buff guy in his 50s.”  What a compliment!  Join the revolution!

More North Korean Knuttery: Some fear Kim Jong UnBalanced may have the ability to detonate an EMP device over the U.S.  Read the novel One Second After, http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765356864, for a somewhat realistic idea of what this might mean.  There is great debate as to the effects of such a weapon – likely not as bad as the book predicts.  Anyway, I doubt the little crazy man has the ability to do this and, if he did, that it would be successful.  No worries.