Avoiding the Spread in 2009

Gone are the days of gowning-up in a bunny-suit in the yellow lab, inhaling the acetone-soaked air through the tight surgical mask. Gone are the beakers full of photo-chemicals that splash an experimental material onto the plastic protection screen. No more running from bay to bay like some space being trying to save the planet. I am now office-bond. A broken foot and a lateral change of job title has placed me in front of a computer screen. I now spend nearly all day trying to assemble or verify circuit design patterns. These are the circuit patterns 'on paper' before they make it on to a real microchip. Using computer assisted design tools, I sit and stare and hours pass while I think...okay this is a beautifully elegant circuit.....but my hips must be expanding by the second! To add to that, I gave myself a compound fracture on a middle toe back in July, keeping me in a plastic boot for 2 months. I have slowly tried to reintroduce the Pilates to the other parts of my body. I am finally back in a normal shoe, ready to make up for lost time. Back to the weekly sessions with Marie and I am walking at least 4 or 5 days a week (since mid-September). I'll need to make a goal of some type to quantitatively measure an improvement. Back to the drawing board till I figure that one out...