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Hi, I'm Dave. Yesterday on my Fitbit Inspired 2, I finished with 27,500 steps, which I know is a gaudy number.

And here's why it's a little higher than normal.

So yesterday morning, every morning I take a long walk

and the first ten minutes of that walk is our time together.

And then I keep walking.

And yesterday's walk was there was an add-on

towards the end of the walk probably a little more than a mile and it was actually

an experiment and I was kind of surprised at the results I'm going to talk more about that tomorrow so there was a longer walk in the morning

and I took our evening walk,

and it was also a little bit longer. The temperature was comfortable, and a lot of the homes in

our community have their Christmas lights and decorations up. So it was quite a bit of fun walking

around and looking at those.

So we took advantage of that. But I think the big thing that added to that number,

I mentioned that we recently bought a fire pit and then special ordered some chairs to go around the fire pit.

Well, they arrived two days ago and yesterday was the day that I put them together.

And it was a lot of work.

It took several hours.

And I did an awful lot of moving as I was unpacking the box and getting all the plastic and the wrapping that was covering all the parts.

I moved a lot, getting all that up and set everything out.

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