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When I wrote this week's starter, I was obviously in a gloomy mood. I find that happens more than usual in this strange year of 2020. But you know what snaps me out of it, more often than not? Going on a good walk. As evidence here are two entries from my walking journal last night and this...

Late start on starting the Stay the Course Week. Hope all's going well with all our Coursers. I don't have much cheerful news. Hope someone else does. Dark and gloomy day. Tropical system bringing heavy showers (squalls?) in here off the ocean from this morning through (they forecast) the end...

I love your commitment to being "a huge evangelist of any brand of fitness tracker." There are a lot of exciting options out there as a result of the competition within a booming market. Personally, I'm think it is really cool to have heart monitoring capability that you wear right on your...

I love my Garmin. Bet you will enjoy yours, Rich. After carelessly losing a pricey one several years ago, I found a simple original Vivofit model on Amazon for something like 50 bucks. It tracks my steps, records mileage, notes sleep patterns, allows me to sync and compare my results with...

Happy New Week, hardy Coursers (wherever you may be)! It is the first of September; I can see November from my house! Tonight my Garmin step-tracker reported that I have taken 2,141,178 steps in the past 12 months. Pondering that stat, I realized that those 12 months led me to my first...

Hello there all you staying your courses! The world just spinning rapidly. Late getting this going, and got take DW to medical appointment shortly. So just quickly putting up an opening thread. Let us know what you're doing these days, how things are going. Speaking of spinning, Hurricane Laura...

sooooo, good visit yesterday with cardio, now to be followed by CT-Scan, then Sept return to cardio on first anniversary of aneurysm surgery, then maybe consult with an out-of-town surgeon to see if need to fix the epigastric incisional hernia, then (I still hope) walking in community's Oct 17...

Happy New Week, fellow Stay-the-Coursers! Love it how our weekly comments take unplanned directions, for example with last week's discussions of poison ivy/poison oak and ways to heal and recovery from outbreaks. It is good to have a place to discuss our health challenges and share ideas for...

Sorry you've had such a tough go of it. Guess I'm just lucky. Have had lot of exposure to poison ivy over the years, but no bad outbreaks. For a little humor, I started to post The Coasters' 1959 hit, "Poison Ivy," but then thought better of it. But one line of it describes the one therapy I'm...

Happy New Week, good and hearty Stay-the-Coursers! Here's hoping this second week of torrid August in the one-for-all-times year of 2020 brings you much joy -- or at least no headaches. Well, no exciting news here. (But sometimes no news is good news, right?) After taking my wife to get her...

Indeed, it doesn't. Jim. I got off track when we ordered a much bigger birthday cake for granddaughter's birthday than just 3 of us needed, and I ate way too much over 3 or 4 days. Proud, though, that I have taken stock and begun turning things around. Dinner last night was a veggie pita from a...

Happy to report that have shed 3 of those 5 CovidCane pounds merely by abstaining from junk food for 48 hours. Now...to continue making salmon cakes my only kind of "cake" delicacy. 🙂

Alas, I am experiencing the CovidCane Gain: Plus-5 pounds amid all the coronavirus-induced and hurricane-exacerbated stress. Too much in-home stocking of goodies -- cookies, chips, crackers, cakes et al (Latin for ate all) :p Weather gurus now projecting double the average number of major...

Hurricanes are never perfectly predictable. Maybe that was the mischievous thinking back when we named them all after women, but now we live in more enlightened times. :) Anyway, last night this rather disorganized system bearing a Spanish name meaning "God is my salvation" was showing a max...

As I write this, Tropical Storm Isaias is about 2 or 3 hours from making landfall either here in Myrtle Beach or maybe 20 miles north near the border with North Carolina. By the time that happens, its wind intensity could bump up 4 mph to make it officially Hurricane Isaias. There is not much...

We got them through a little company here started by two young ladies whom we trust. And with a discount offered through our health plan (final price still a hefty wad of money but a nice savings off starting price). The brand we chose is Starkey. Love that they fit neatly in a case at night for...

http://www.brevardtimes.com/2020/07/noaa-tropical-storm-isaias-track-to-florida-spaghetti-models/amp/ Now in the "cone of uncertainty" here along the SE coast. You know this old weather freak loves it (as long as we're talking no more than minimal Cat1). :cool: If my ticker ticks its last, I...

Well, Happy New Week, you unsinkable Stay-the-Coursers, you. Only 40 more days til August. Ah, okay, make that 4. It just seems like this has been the longest July ever. Seems that way to me, anyway. What about you? I mean you know all the turmoil -- I don't need to chronicle it here. So...

Thanks, Bryan. I will look into the lithium batteries. You are quite right about hurricanes often packing a punch far inland. Our most vivid recollection is from 1969 when we were young marrieds living on the second floor of an old farmhouse near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, far far...

Yeah right, as I noted, double whammy. But the immediacy of storm surge, flooding rivers far inland, and 120 mph winds renders a pandemic of lesser concern. I doubt hurricane shelters would be turning people away because they weren't wearing masks, nor do I think "social distancing" would be an...