@ch1820: FWIW running and walking together for ten miles IMO burns for me 1200 calories at the very least, probably for yourself quite a bit more. This is not including fatigue near the end of the run. I walk one minute and run for 15 seconds. I am not trying to invalidate what you are doing. I am just concerned.

I have ran a measily four miles. cln1820 blows my doors off. If I had half her stamina...well anyway, I fell asleep for several hours. I have not been sleeping much, maybe four hours a night. This is very unusual. I seem to not want to go to bed late in the evening.

My credit card has been going up a couple hundred dollars a month, but most of that is really necessities, like gas, or bill payments that I did not reimburse from my cash account. Looking at this, it now appears to me that I have been overspending by about maybe $100 or $150 a month. Not good. So far my additional spending has not become entirely out of control...so far. I have been eating out too much. We are talking about an occasional Big Mac, and $2 pancakes at Denny’s. I also have been purchasing too many expensive PF Chang meals. I have been bored with my usual meals, but this is no excuse for spending more money on food. Then there is that $100 device I have used for my running.

I have recently been exercising with my stepson. He is a very good person who is kind, helpful, and with a very quick mind. He had to go to Special Ed while in high school. In some ways he has more available intelligence than his brother who was able to graduate high school a year early with an opportunity to go to college. Go figure.

I need to take a shower and get my place cleaned up. If my ex girlftriend were to show up, she would not be happy with me.