I know what you are wondering: where did your boys get those George W. Bush dolls? Well apparently while I was at work yesterday, my wife & mom took them to the mall, and Zach said “Micky Mouse” while they were walking past a Disney store. He hasn’t said “Micky Mouse” before, so my mom interpreted it as “I must own every Micky Mouse doll that is offered for sale at the adjacent store” and bought them all. My wife is now trying to drill him to say “necklace.”
While my mom was fulfilling the Bush administration’s economic agenda of “um, get people to buy stuff,” yesterday was the one day a year when I parade around the Insurance Department office in my gym shorts and endure the silent mockery of department employees. It was my now-annual pilgrimage to have my health evaluated by Cardio-Kinetics, as part of a program I started last year for Insurance Department employees to choose healthier lifestyles. Using some money that we saved by cutting other costs, we contracted with Cardio-Kinetics to come into the office once a year to allow our employees to undergo a pretty complete fitness evaluation—cardio, strength, body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure, flexibility, and so on. The folks who do the evaluations give recommendations to improve personal health down the road, and obviously if they spot a problem such as high blood pressure they can let the employee know about it so it can be taken care of. It is a good program and very popular with the department staff.
My evaluation is pretty entertaining, since the trainer who is doing it—apparently aware that I have something to do with whether they come back next year—professes amazement at my Olympian-level physical skills while simultaneously scribbling down the sober truth to review with me later. When I did one more sit-up in 60 seconds than I did last year, he reacted like he had won the lottery.
Finally, in identifying a couple of “cool kids” from Delaware Democratic campaigns yesterday, I obviously offended other cool kids who were not identified. I would like, therefore, to officially dub Kristin Dwyer, Dana Rohrbough, and Molly Jurusik as cool kids. I am not sure how old Erik Schramm is, he may need to be a Cool Kid Emeritus. I am happy to accept other nominations for cool kids at mattdenn@hotmail.com. You may also purchase the right to be a cool kid for $1,200 at this web site.
While my mom was fulfilling the Bush administration’s economic agenda of “um, get people to buy stuff,” yesterday was the one day a year when I parade around the Insurance Department office in my gym shorts and endure the silent mockery of department employees. It was my now-annual pilgrimage to have my health evaluated by Cardio-Kinetics, as part of a program I started last year for Insurance Department employees to choose healthier lifestyles. Using some money that we saved by cutting other costs, we contracted with Cardio-Kinetics to come into the office once a year to allow our employees to undergo a pretty complete fitness evaluation—cardio, strength, body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure, flexibility, and so on. The folks who do the evaluations give recommendations to improve personal health down the road, and obviously if they spot a problem such as high blood pressure they can let the employee know about it so it can be taken care of. It is a good program and very popular with the department staff.
My evaluation is pretty entertaining, since the trainer who is doing it—apparently aware that I have something to do with whether they come back next year—professes amazement at my Olympian-level physical skills while simultaneously scribbling down the sober truth to review with me later. When I did one more sit-up in 60 seconds than I did last year, he reacted like he had won the lottery.
Finally, in identifying a couple of “cool kids” from Delaware Democratic campaigns yesterday, I obviously offended other cool kids who were not identified. I would like, therefore, to officially dub Kristin Dwyer, Dana Rohrbough, and Molly Jurusik as cool kids. I am not sure how old Erik Schramm is, he may need to be a Cool Kid Emeritus. I am happy to accept other nominations for cool kids at mattdenn@hotmail.com. You may also purchase the right to be a cool kid for $1,200 at this web site.
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