Cheat Work Thursday

I've never thought there would come a day when not being able to run would be upsetting news to me. Last September, I got myself a checkup, the usual sugar-cholesterol-kidney-I-forgot-another-one, which results I kind of expected because, well, you are (usually) what your lifestyle is. Everything is thankfully fine except, of course, for the bad cholesterol. All the delicious cookies and fried food have finally paid off! I don't need the results to know that I should exercise regularly and eat good food, but I like that I now have the numbers from a doctor -- who spent years in med school learning important and hard stuff -- as a reminder. So now , as in latest by the following October, I really have to do better, right? (Ok, for the record, I do exercise and make effort to eat good food, just not consistently, because consistency requires discipline and willpower.) So, October, November, December and January -- I spent a lot of my free time staring at my medical result...

Last week, while waiting for my car being serviced, I found this fun site,  online.seterra.com . I can now name 50 US states and 35 countries in America on the map. I'm a genius. I should be on Ellen. The questions are, who drew the US state lines, and why many of them are magically straight? How fair was the process? What if someone preferred to be part of Nevada and was already in it, but due to the straight line was forced to be in Utah? What happened to those who had a piece of land that extended from one state to another? Why do Wyoming and Colorado get to be perfect rectangles? And who gave Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island such a small space? (Will totally post and brag about it again when I do Europe, Africa and Asia, plus the capitals and cities!)