Lorena and I bought a treadmill to replace the one our good friends, Bob and Gena, lent us when we lived in Centralia. Lorena has been using it regularly and I have been using it only sporadically for about a year now. Now that I have finished the Ph.D., I no longer have an excuse for being so fat and out of shape. I need to lose fifty pounds (probably more). So, I decided to get on a program again and deal with it. I have always walked pretty fast, between 3.5-4 mph, but I could not do that this time so I am starting to put a program together where I can take it slower and build back up to where I was before. About the maximum rate I can maintain and read a book is about 2.5 miles per hour. I am just going to try to maintain that for a month or so and enjoy the books I have been buying. I am trying to get my speed back up to at least 3.5 mph by the time the weather cools off so I can walk outside. In the meantime, I am going to try to read my book on weightlifting for old guys so I can figure out whether we want to buy some weights or join a gym. We might even see if we can go to a seminar on weightlifting by the company that offers they book–the company is only a couple of hours from where we live.