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I'm so enjoying other people's increased posting lately, that even though I have never been much for posting at all, I decided to give it a go.

Biggest recent news in my life: considering buying a house. JEEZ, THIS IS WEIRD. Like, looking inside other people's houses is weird to begin with, but then thinking about -owning one myself- is also weird. If things break, I will have to pay to fix it! Yikes!

But on the other hand, no upstairs-neighbor doing stompy exercise routine at 6 am, or literally always failing to clean the dryer lint screen and thus burning us both up in our sleep someday...

No waiting around for the landlord to mow the lawn or shovel the sidewalk... because that will be my job. YIKES AGAIN!

Anyway. I'm also fascinated by how much money people are willing to give me, and how much people say I can "afford" and then when I do the math BOY HOWDY HOW I DO NOT WANT TO BE SPENDING THAT MUCH MONEY ON HOUSING. Thankfully, large midwestern city has decent stock of housing at sizes & locations in which I want to live, that also is within the amount of money I am comfortable spending.

So, there's that.

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Doing my bit for increased posting:

* Saw a youth on campus today wearing a Blackhawks t-shirt with an "A" on the shoulder, and honestly waited until she'd passed me to check whose jersey it was. -Never- was that kind of a sports fan before - fandom has got me watching -pro sports- - kinda croggled by this. Also, I was mildly disappointed to see that she'd fallen for the so-obvious charms of P Sharp.

* Went for extra-long bike ride home (15 miles, which is 11 more than is actually required to get me home from my office). Must be the end of summer, because it was actually dark by the time I got home. Tho I did leave the office pretty late, it wasn't that late.

It's rather warm (for here) right now, so I arrived home quite literally as wet as I have ever gotten off my bike when I have not been heavily rained-on. I just wore my bike shorts into the shower, because they clearly needed a pre-rinse before regular washing!

I'm at a weird stage in muscle development where fat shrinkage is actually starting to make my thighs -smaller-. Until recently, my majorly-increased-biking of the last few years has only made them bigger. I can tell I'm still getting stronger, because I'm getting faster, and can climb hills better. But I'm finding the size decrease (tiny as it is, as yet) fairly upsetting. Body image, 's a heckuva thing.