I am here! Not very often lately...but I am still around! We have been in the middle of moving our office, and while we have been kicked out of our old space, the new space isn't ready yet. So I have been working from home for a month.

We took a vacation to Maine to hold a memorial service and bury my aunt's ashes back in June. She grew up living in a town called East Blue every summer and passed away back in December. She wanted to be buried in Blue Hill with her parents. We managed to make it out to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, to a Red Sox game at Fenway, and out to Acadia National Park along the way.

Among all that other stuff that kept me from hanging around here, I finally got serious back at the end of February and changed the way I was eating to avoid going diabetic like the rest of my family. Since February 22, I have lost 59 pounds and I am 18 pounds from reaching my goal of 190 pounds. I am now lighter than I have been in about 15 years, and my diabetes control value has already lower than it has been in the last five years. I was able to get off of one blood pressure medicine, and will likely get taken off my other BP med in the next week or so. I have gone down 4 inches on the waist of my pants and I am about to have to go down another size.

I am still riding my bike and doing spin classes. Rode 36 miles in a little over 2 hours last Sunday in preparation for the Katy Flatland Century ride. Probably doing the 42 mile route, but we will see how the heat treats us. We are starting around 6:45am, so hopefully will be done before it gets too hot. I hope all of you are doing well and staying active where you can!