"Shooting softball, flinter"
I like 31-day months.
I feel like I’m getting better value.
That’s not really related to anything, especially not this column, but I thought it was a pretty clever line that I came up with and just wanted to get that in here…
But really, I’ve got a pretty good racket going.
Because of my job and relatively active lifestyle, I get in a suitable amount of moving around and exercise.
And because it’s cheaper to keep people healthy through exercise than fix them when they’re broken, my health insurance company sends me some sort of goodie about every month for being as active as I would be anyway.
I respond very well to positive reinforcement/bribery/carrots.
You do 30 minutes of any sort of activity one day, enter it on the Web site and that’s 10 points. 250 points is a little prize. Get to 500 points, you get to choose a little bit cooler prize...
"02/06/2006 – Monday: Shooting, maybe to Y or golf later... walked to Joe's and back a few nights ago."
It’s really pretty clever of them. They get traffic on their Web site, some cheap PR, a few materialistic lazy folks off their bums…
And it winds up serving as a sort of journal of my activities… walking to church and back, shooting the CrossWalk, shooting all sort of things at GWU, climbing, some golf at Royster …
I got a small TV once. I took a photo of it with the camera they sent me and put it and more info on my blog, jderrickstar.blogspot.com.
"03/17/2006 – Friday: Shooting softball, flinter"
Some of the little gifts (which I guess I’m paying for one way or another, but denial is cozy, so bug off…) are better than others.
By now I must have gotten a half dozen little multi-function pocket knife/pliers/screwdriver/scissors thingies. But I keep getting them because they’re incredibly useful and you can always use an extra for the tacklebox/car/shooting bag…
"03/19/2006 – Sunday: Raking leaves w/ Marilyn at Maureen's..."
I’ve gotten some little first aid kits, I’ve gotten a pretty good tent, a tool kit in a nice bag I use for muzzleloading gear, a few wireless heart rate monitors... I can only use one of those at a time. It lets me know if my heart stops. Important.
Sometimes I wind up getting stuff I don’t even want, but can give to others. A sweatshirt for some charity through my church, a small foosball table I sent over to a buddy in Iraq…. I coulda sent over a "Turbo Action Hockey" set. I bet that’d really confuse some little Iraqi kid.
"03/23/2006 – Thursday: Shooting .45s... I was great... swam 30"
Yes, the Derricks just had an Insurance Company Christmas – small screwdriver sets for everyone, Mom!
Speaking of my Mom, you may recall we’re in a friendly competition to swim more lengths at the pool…
04/03/2006 – Monday: Swimming at Y, 36 lengths
Your turn, Mum…
I feel like I’m getting better value.
That’s not really related to anything, especially not this column, but I thought it was a pretty clever line that I came up with and just wanted to get that in here…
But really, I’ve got a pretty good racket going.
Because of my job and relatively active lifestyle, I get in a suitable amount of moving around and exercise.
And because it’s cheaper to keep people healthy through exercise than fix them when they’re broken, my health insurance company sends me some sort of goodie about every month for being as active as I would be anyway.
I respond very well to positive reinforcement/bribery/carrots.
You do 30 minutes of any sort of activity one day, enter it on the Web site and that’s 10 points. 250 points is a little prize. Get to 500 points, you get to choose a little bit cooler prize...
"02/06/2006 – Monday: Shooting, maybe to Y or golf later... walked to Joe's and back a few nights ago."
It’s really pretty clever of them. They get traffic on their Web site, some cheap PR, a few materialistic lazy folks off their bums…
And it winds up serving as a sort of journal of my activities… walking to church and back, shooting the CrossWalk, shooting all sort of things at GWU, climbing, some golf at Royster …
I got a small TV once. I took a photo of it with the camera they sent me and put it and more info on my blog, jderrickstar.blogspot.com.
"03/17/2006 – Friday: Shooting softball, flinter"
Some of the little gifts (which I guess I’m paying for one way or another, but denial is cozy, so bug off…) are better than others.
By now I must have gotten a half dozen little multi-function pocket knife/pliers/screwdriver/scissors thingies. But I keep getting them because they’re incredibly useful and you can always use an extra for the tacklebox/car/shooting bag…
"03/19/2006 – Sunday: Raking leaves w/ Marilyn at Maureen's..."
I’ve gotten some little first aid kits, I’ve gotten a pretty good tent, a tool kit in a nice bag I use for muzzleloading gear, a few wireless heart rate monitors... I can only use one of those at a time. It lets me know if my heart stops. Important.
Sometimes I wind up getting stuff I don’t even want, but can give to others. A sweatshirt for some charity through my church, a small foosball table I sent over to a buddy in Iraq…. I coulda sent over a "Turbo Action Hockey" set. I bet that’d really confuse some little Iraqi kid.
"03/23/2006 – Thursday: Shooting .45s... I was great... swam 30"
Yes, the Derricks just had an Insurance Company Christmas – small screwdriver sets for everyone, Mom!
Speaking of my Mom, you may recall we’re in a friendly competition to swim more lengths at the pool…
04/03/2006 – Monday: Swimming at Y, 36 lengths
Your turn, Mum…
from www.bcbsnc.com, tried using my camera from these folks,
but the software was on my old harddrive, which died....
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