Went off to spin class at six-thirty this morning…the last one before going off for a long ski in Aspen. But I was reminded just what a nice form of aerobics it is…how much being in a group helps....

After a hectic week, flying around the country, got up to the Berkshires. Heaven. Did a two hour cross country ski, up to Riga lake and beyond…decent snow, no one else around…black river roaring down beside the old jeep...

Spent the last week travelling the country, speaking and beating the drum. The travel gets old but the speaking and meeting people is a joy. A terrific guy (and fan) named Terry Guerrant met me in Phoenix…took me on...

I gave lots of talks this week and, as ever, a great pleasure. Met a number of “users” in Ann Arbor and Jupiter Florida…and a terrific surgeon in Atlanta – the head of surgery at a leading hospital there...

Sometimes you catch a break. Yesterday, drove to Vermont, gave a talk at the terrific Northshire bookstore in Manchester. About 85 nice people there, half a dozen of whom came up to say they’d read the book and it...

So, it is early in the morning, the first eay of the New Year. Up latish with a big gang, here in the hills…not feeling a hundred percent like walking out in the cold to the barn to work...