Changes

I have never been a big fan of the fall.  I mean it is beautiful but it signifies the end to me.  Summer is my favorite season.  The kids are off from school and our pace is not so hectic.  There are ball games on the radio and everything is right with the world.  The fall brings and end to that and our pace changes.  Everyone in my household becomes much busier, excluding me of course.  We rarely have much quality family time together.  I also signifies the ending of the baseball season.  I love sports but baseball is my one true religion.  If I am not watching or listening to baseball, then I am reading about it.  My love of history spurs me on to read more about the history of the sport.  I try to read fiction or other subjects but I am always drawn back to baseball. 
I am also trying to lose some of the weight I have added over the last few decades.  Slowly but surely, I have dropped 15 lbs.  It has come in little spurts but I still have my eyes on the goal.  One of the things that has worked well for me is Weight Watchers.  It is not a diet but you do have to track what you eat.  That is the only extra work that you have to do.  I have also started to do my Nordic Track more religiously.  It is one of those old style skiers that most people are using as a clothing rack.  I am up to 30 min a day, for three to five days a week.
The best way I have found to enjoy my time on the skier is to read.  It makes the time go by much faster.  I am back reading Murakami.  His use of fantastic situations is one of his strong points.  He seems to take an idea that other would see as too farcical and make it seem common place.  It doesn't hurt that he decided to become a writer while at a baseball game.