RESOLUTIONS REVIEW

* Take at least 8 road trips.  A+. I badly underestimated how many road trips we would take in 2021. We've already taken 14 trips this year, with another trip to MN later this month.

* Give up French fries.  C. I slipped a couple of times when we were in CA last month.

* Get a DNA report from Ancestry.com.  Inc. I haven't been able to retrieve the results of my sample, we I sent in JAN. One of these days I'll get around to calling about it.

* Do my PT exercises at least 3X per week.  F.

* Avoid useless FB arguments. B-. For the most part I've been good, except for a recent conversation I had on FB re:  my comments concerning the NYT.

* Add to our National Park & bucket lists. A+. We've been to San Antonio, Everglades NP, Yosemite NP, Sequoia NP, & King's Canyon NP this year.

* Lose at least 10 lbs. F. My 2020 resolution was to lose at least 10 lbs. I lost 22 lbs. That's the good news. I didn't even bother weighing myself this morning, because I know that I've gained all of that weight back so far this year. That's the bad news.

According to my calculations, my average so far this year is a C+.

GOLD

"The Nobel Prize medal is still made of gold, though it was downgraded in 1980, when it went from 23 karats (24 is pure) to an 18-karat core coated in 23-karat gold. The gold in each medal is worth about $8,000. Reader's Digest, March 2021 Rumor has it that the medal was downgraded again in 2009, when Barack Obama won the prize before he had even served one day as POTUS. I have been unable to confirm that rumor.

RULES

"Rules for being the age you are . . . Give yourself permission to be bad. You know what you're really good at? Things you've done many times before. Mastery is boredom. Unfortunately, we enjoy feeling like masters; we hate feeling like idiots. So we keep ourselves from feeling stupid. This is a bad trade (& not the sort of bad I'm talking about). Reader's Digest, March 2021

DEPT. OF SHAMELESS JOKE-STEALING *

* Compliments of Reader's Digest, March 2021

> "My e-mail password has been hacked That's the third time I've had to rename my cat."

> "Here's the problem with fruit:  It's inconsistent. Some apples are delicious; some taste bad. Sometimes blueberries are great; sometimes they are disgusting. You know what's the same every time? Doritos."