Had another very busy week, with two or three meetings a day every day this week. We are driving down to our place in South Georgia tomorrow. Cathy is going to drive while I work on the laptop and handle my voice mail and e-mail with the Blackberry, so I can work "on the run" We haven't been down in several weeks, so I have many chores to do.

My dad asked me to do some research for him on laptop computers. At age 82, he is looking at buying their first computer! Talk about a late adapter, even my in-laws have a computer. I am seriously leaning towards recommending an Apple computer, even though my experience with Apples is very limited. I just think that in terms of viruses, spywear and adware they are probably much simpler and cleaner. And I think they can run windows programs now, so why not?

I went shopping for lawnmowers today for our place in South Georgia. I am leaning towards getting a John Deere. Our last riding lawn mower lasted for about twelve years and actually the engine still worked when we had to retire the mower. We had a bent drive shaft that was going to cost five or six hundred dollars to fix. We are big about keeping and using things a long time. We gave a car away to charity last year that was 21 years old and still running. We only got rid of it because we had, at the time three very old cars ( the youngest of which was 16YO ), all of which could need to go in the shop at any moment. We went from three old cars, to two old cars, one old car and then no old cars ( one car had terminal mechanical problems in excess of it's value and the other was hit from behind). Luckily we have one "new" car (six years old) that we bought used and are about to pay off. After next month, no car payments. I think this habit of using products an extremely long time is more environmentally sound than buying new products that get better gas milage. I believe that if people held on to and maintained their cars for at least twenty years, it would reduce the use of resources and reduce contributions to landfills by a substantial amount.

Today was an eating day:

Breakfast:

Two egg whites, two sausage patties, one piece of whole wheat toast

Lunch

Turkey sandwich, on whole wheat with salad and chips

Dinner

Pasta, with Alfredo sauce, mushrooms and sliced chicken breast

Snacks:

Frozen Custard ( was doing pretty good up to now ) and handful of chips, apple

Drinking diet cokes and herb tea and staying away from adult beverages. Mowed the lawn at the Atlanta place after work with the old push lawnmower, which is quite a good workout. Weigh-in for better or worse takes place on Monday. I think that I have put on a few LBS the last few weeks through laxity on my "non eat" days but I am feeling like I am coming out of the other side of this.