Monday 14 November 2005

The little things...

I just got asked (and successfully answered) one of those questions that librarians love to answer. The student approached the desk with a large zippered pouch, pointed to the part of the zipper you hold on to, and asked what it was called. Beautiful. Although not necessarily an authoritative source, I found a web site to an American zipper manufacturer that had a list of definitions of zipper parts. (It's called the "pull tab" by the way.)

In other news, I've started exercising again: just a little jogging, push-ups and sit-ups in the morning. Not anything too strenuous. I almost killed myself last time I tried, so... babysteps, babysteps.

And the family and I went walking around downtown Kingston yesterday (it was only a little rainy) to check out the interesting shops: some authentic "world goods" stores, book stores, and toy stores. Pretty cool.

Nothing else? How about you? What was YOUR weekend like? Anything bordering on the illegal?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

nothing illegal THIS weekend!!

I think we are having a family party for your dad, mike and trianna on the 26th.. we will see

Cheers..

--Your favourite sister in law

Dan said...

Hi Matt.

Yes, baby-steps are important when beginning to exercise. I suggest that you set small goals every week with the jogging, so you slowly increase the duration and the exercise.

Regards,

Dan

Matt said...

fav sis-in-law: Nothing illegal? Boring. The family party sounds cool. Someone will have to come and get us though...

Dan: You're absolutely right. I tried jogging several times before but I always started with too much and quit too quickly. This time I might actually keep it up!