The Last few days

Busy outside the house the last few days so no updates. I have been reading some of the required materials (and taking notes from them) for the Python course at MIT.
What I've NOT been doing is the walking. I'm in a self defeating cycle where by I don't feel like walking due to the shortness of breath, but walking would help me get in better shape and overcome some of the related issues. I'm slightly worried that the shortness of breath and tightness of chest is cardio related, but maybe I'll be lucky and its just the fact I'm old and fat.

You know, I've said this elsewhere but it bares repeating; Science is really cool. Today I went through the APOD(astronomy picture of the day) section of images I have on rotation on my desktop. The stars are beautiful and mysterious, even when we know so much about them. I really do believe that we should be working much harder to get ourselves "off the doomed rock" that is our home. THAT being said; we should redouble our rather meager efforts to clean up said rock and remove some of the doom.

Did some yard saleing and bargin shopping in the last two days. We got a lot of books, inculding "The Sphere" and a handbook on industrial electronics. Tonight at Hudson's Dirt Cheap in Amory, we got several of the Elven Figurines from THIS SET http://www.schleich-s.de/en/playground/elfenwelt.php?lang=2 Got 6 of them to be exact, plus another Knight Figure, this one standing up holding a sword, as opposed to the ONE we already had, a Knight mounted with jousting lance. The details on these are awesome, and we got them at 60% off. Its a splurge but it is the month of our anniversary and we get to have fun sometimes too.

That's all I have to say for now, I'll try to do more in general tomorrow, and focus on getting some more work done in the Python Class, work on the assignments.
Chaio