After yesterday's humiliation with the belt (which by the way was reversible so I have no brown or black belt and yes I am a dork) I decided that this morning I would run. I had not run in five days so I wondered how far I would get. The weather was great--upper 50's and no wind. I ran along the canals and ended up doing 3 miles in a little over 27 minutes. This shocked me because I had not run at a 9 minute pace outside (i.e. not on a treadmill) in over a year d...

Today we left London for Amsterdam flying British Air. I am fairly certain I complained about this two years ago, but it never fails that when we fly in or out of London Heathrow or Gatwick Airports we are at a gate that is as far away from the security entrance as possible. We easily walked a half mile to get to our gate, and by the time we got there we had only about 5 minutes to board before they shut off boarding. When we landed in Amsterdam we also had to wa...