Humorous remarks

I'm going through old notes and came across some from an orthopedic surgery seminar. Man, that surgeon had some great ways to put things. Here are the only two I managed to record.

About a spectacularly stupid dog he knew: "If it were to develop another neuron, it could have a synapse."

What it's like the first time you go in to surgically reduce a fracture: "You'll feel like a cow, with a gun, going fishing."

I particularly like that last one. First times doing something new, especially something new and difficult, are like that. I remember my first abdominal surgery! A cow, with a gun, going fishing. Stick with it. Sometimes, you get good at something difficult.

Fitness goals

I'm missing anything to do with physical fitness in my life.

My foot problems make many activities challenging or downright not worth it. For well over a decade, I've just ignored the whole physical fitness realm. But I'm getting tired of being a complete couch potato.

I guess the first step is to decide what my goals are. Do I want to build a STRONG body? A STURDY AND RESILIENT body? A FLEXIBLE body? A body that MAY AGE WELL?

(Note the total lack of "slender" or "sculpted" in this list of possibilities. As long as I'm still carrying breasts around there's really no point making any minor optimizations to the rest of me, and besides, I think I am past the age where skin shrinks.)

Those of you who do or who consider doing physical fitness stuff: what are your goals?