User blog comment:Sprinklemist/Three Random Subjects/@comment-1874924-20110331044750

I've always had a relatively sedentary lifestyle. I had some natural athletic talent when I was little (I may have mentioned this somewhere on the wiki before) but when I learned how to read, pretty much everything else fell by the wayside. I've been borderline obese (BMI hovering right around 30) for a number of years; but in the last year or two, I have crossed the border, shall we say. This is largely because I was getting (even) less physical activity than usual when TDI-G&S was eating a year and a half of my life. I had thought that what passes for my life would get back more or less to normal after I finished TDI-G&S, but nooo. Some infernal power had to give me the idea that I could write a competition story.

I used to do a lot of walking, because I grew up accustomed to walking to get where I wanted to go, and for many years that was my main source of exercise. That has largely fallen by the wayside in the last few years, as well, for a couple of reasons. First, I am far less likely than I once was to have the time to devote to it. Second, one of my main walking destinations was to my former high school to watch basketball and volleyball games. The problem is that I now shoot most of those games, and it's not practical to lug my camera system two miles on foot. And so I sit, getting fatter and giving you guys a hard time.