…as long as you can let yourself back.” – Mick Jagger

I’ve been working lately on letting myself back. Amazingly enough, sitting in front of a PC all day is NOT the best way to stay in shape. Who knew?

I wasn’t getting fat, but I let myself get soft. Way too soft. So it’s exercise every other day, calisthenics and free weights, slowly ramping myself up. It’s working, a helluva lot faster than I expected. After just two weeks I’m noticeably tighter and stronger. And these things on my stomach? Whaddya call them? Abs? Cool, I didn’t know I had those!

Feeling better physically kinda offsets my increasingly dark mental state, which I blame on the ongoing economic idiocy of the government, the media, and the voters. I’m not going blog about it; others have done it more eloquently, more viciously, and more effectively than I could. I had a draft kicking around for 5 days, and it just kept getting angrier and uglier the longer I worked on it. So instead I’ll just say this: I think the best thing to do now is lay low and quietly prepare, as best you can, for when it all comes tumbling down.