Gaming old school
I've always liked video games. More adventure related games - like final fantasy. The old game systems aren't nearly as spiffy as the new ones. But there are a lot of great old games. Maureen really liked playing a game called Bust-a-move. It's a puzzle game that ran on the good old Super Nintendo. We might be able to dig it up again if I dug around long enough... maybe. Fortunately there are emulators for a lot of the old game systems. I played around with one called SNES9x for Mac OS X, chased down a ROM image of the good old Bust-a-move - fired it up and there it was on my laptop. There's a gazillion old games out there that are lots of fun. Check out http://www.snes9x.com/
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Exercise exercise exercise...
I'm still exercising. Day by day it's getting a little bit easier. Last week I skipped a total of one day (Wednesday - because of DnD the previous night). I used the eliptical trainer three times and lifted weights three times. The good part is that I'm getting better at it. On the 4th I got to .62 miles in 20 minutes, this morning it was .69 miles (I'll take my 0.07 miles thanks :-) I've almost made it to 4 miles... :-)

In financial news - we're on budget and doing pretty well. Gotta get our taxes ready yet. I have to get back into quicken (balance that checkbook). I'll probably update my old pocket quicken (http://www.landware.com/pocketquicken/palmos/index.asp) for my good old handspring visor... we'll have to see.

The envelope systems works really well for us. The idea is really easy. If you would have spent money using a debit card, don't. Instead take out all of the money you would spend for a category - like food - and put it into an envelope that says 'food' on it. When you buy food, spend the money from the 'food' envelope. When the envelope is empty, then you can't buy any more food.
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