EXERCISE BIKE UP AND RUNNING

Well since my treadmill broke down last week I had to find a new piece of exercise equipment until I get my treadmill fixed so I won't have to exercise out in the cold. I bought the bike at Wal-Mart yesterday morning and dad put it together yesterday afternoon with a little assistance from Al towards the end of construction of the bike. I did use it last night and I have to day it ran pretty good, I just have to get used to it since I have been using a treadmill for so long. I do have to say that I am already a bit sore from using it this morning and I got a feeling that my soreness is going to get worst as the day goes on. In the NFL playoffs yesterday both the Patriots and the Bears picked up victories, next week New Orleans will be at Chicago to face the Bears and New England will be at Indianapolis to face the Colts with two winners meeting in the Super Bowl. It looks like it is going to make it to about 70 again today before the cool down begins, by Wednesday it might night make it to 40, my body just doesn't like all these sudden temperature changes. MICKEY

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go bananas from Miavita Food Facts
Smart bakers have a bunch of tricks for cutting fat using this versatile fruit. Mash very ripe bananas into a puree, and you can use it to replace half to 3/4 of the fat in your favorite muffin or quick bread recipe. As if that alone wasn't enough of a heart-healthy improvement, bananas are chock full of potassium, which helps regulate blood pressure. Just be aware they're a little high in calories and sugar compared to most other fruits -- a medium-sized banana has about 110 calories, a "super-sized" one may have twice that.

1899 - Edwin Markham’s poem, The Man With a Hoe, was published for the first time. The California school teacher’s work was published by the San Francisco Examiner.
1906 - Willie Hoppe, at the tender age of 18, won his first world billiard championship by defeating the renowned French champ, Maurice Vignaux in Paris. Hoppe was one of the greatest billiard players of all time (between 1936 and 1952, he held the Three-Cushion title 11 times).
1943 - The world’s largest office building was completed, just outside of Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The massive structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors, plus, a whole lot of secret places that we’ll never know about. Why? Because it’s the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States defense effort.
1987 - Paramount Home Video reported that, for the first time, it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases: a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of Top Gun.
1990 - ‘Big’ George Foreman, on the comeback-trail at 42 years of age, knocked out Gerry Cooney in the second round at Atlantic City, NJ. (Foreman became the oldest [age 45] ever to win the heavyweight title when he knocked out Michael Moorer on Nov 5, 1994.)

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Actor Chad Lowe is 39
Actress Regina King is 36
Tennis player Mary Pierce is 32
Actor Eddie Cahill is 29