Consistency, Prime! Consistency!
How far do you go to your gym?
I've made it a point not to notice how far it is to my preferred gym because I don't want to find out anything discouraging. I think it is between 10 and 12 miles each way.
Consistency, consistency. More easily said than done. On Monday I had a really full day with meetings both business and personal. By the time I got home after driving all day, I just wanted to veg out and I did.
Last Saturday, I tried calling my oldest longtime friend and the call went immediately to an answering service. I met him shortly after moving out of my parent's house when I was eighteen. We were roommates off and on for several years until I married my wife. We have remained friends ever since even though we lived more than a 1,000 miles away from each other and our lives were nothing alike. We were friends for almost 60 years.
Not being able to reach Gary last Saturday, I tried again today with the same disappointing results. I think I knew something was wrong on Saturday when we didn't connect. I checked his Facebook page early this morning and sadly found out that he had passed on August 20th. I am a tough character, but let me say this has been almost as hard as losing my wife was.
We had planned to go to Maui last fall to visit a mutual female friend who is now a widow. I even asked Go-4-It for cruise ship advice. I was pumped about taking this excursion. When it came right down to the wire, he begged off because he wasn't feeling great. So we postponed the trip. I decided I would visit him this past summer and we could spend some time in Palm Springs, which was a place he loved to vacation and it is driving distance from L.A. where he lived.
Gary was four years older than me. But honestly, at our age a 4 year difference in age is meaningless. Needless to say, I am blown away by this news. My kids knew him like he was their uncle because he was like part of the family. They have been so supportive. Because of the pandemic, a memorial service is planned for sometime next summer in his home town in Indiana. Hopefully, travel will be safe by then.
Long story short, I didn't go to the gym today. Piss on it!