matters of substance

So today, Valentine’s Day,  is our 51st anniversary of meeting.  I was a mere slip of a lad back then – forty pounds less, egad.  Blow away in a strong wind.  Much better to be substantial.  Well grounded.

(Putting that into terms of last night’s dinner,  a mere 160 potato pancakes . . . . )

According to googled calculations, actually, my weight should be 175, fifteen pounds less than it is.  I should aim to get there by my seventieth birthday.  Without taking the shortcut of getting ill.  That would be a pound a month, not impossible.  That’s 3500 calories; about 117 per day.  Which is exactly half a head of cabbage – quite easy to give up!  I feel skinny already!  And think of how much money we’ll save on cabbage!

Mathematics, they are wonderful.

Joe