part one-
I wasn’t much of a belt man in a my yoot, but it turns out they’re pretty useful for holding up pants. And you can put stuff on it. The last belt I had for quite a few years, and I wore it daily. In addition to be fairly tattered from time, I had also poked quite a few holes in it as my waist line shrunk, and that’s a damn fine feeling. Eventually it completely tore near the buckle making it almost useless.

Despite being an article of clothing I wear daily, and get years of use out of, I couldn’t bring myself to spend $15 to replace it. I knew I could do better, damnit! It didn’t help that most the belts had big thick buckles I didn’t want any part of. Eventually fate intervened, and I finally found my belt. On Clearance! For $5.00! At a Walgreens! In Albuquerque! At 2am!

part 2-
I’ve been on hiatus from the gym for about two months. June was mad crazy. Some friends bought a house so there was moving into that, out of 2 other houses, and helping with a few home improvement things. Cass took a class, so I was working half days at work. My workload didn’t stop of course, and I was preparing to take off for a month of vacation. Then there was the month of vacation.

But we recently picked up the gym habit again. Last time was my 300th fitlinxx entry, and we’ve been going a little over 3 years now. In that time I’ve logged 136 hours of cardio, for 113,000 calories. It was really nice to get back to the gym, and getting back to that rhythm even got me to walk home tonight, although it’s still a little warm for that.

Where part one meets part 2 –
I moved my new belt up another notch today. Woohoo!