Well, Spring is finally in the air.  I love spring.  I love wearing shorts and flip flops, walking around in the sun shine in the day, and still being warm outside at night.

One of the signs of spring is how crowded the gym gets.  Second only to the short new year burst, spring is when a lot of people start working out.  I guess after the first few warm weekends when people are out at the beach or the pool, the look down and think about how they need to tone up a little.  But working out takes constancy, so I don't know if many of these people will get results if they take the whole winter off.

Another one of the things I most associate with spring is, of course, baseball.  The season started only a month ago, but the trade rumers and post season prognostications are in already starting.  I'm also planning another baseball trip.  Last year I went to six games in six days on the east coast (Washing DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York(2), and Boston.)  This year I'm planning a trip to the Midwest that will be 7 days (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago(2), Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Kansas City)  I'll get to see a few friends while I'm out there, and spend some more time in Chicago, which I visited briefly about 3 years ago, and have always wanted to see more of.  It will be at the end of May.

That's mostly it.  I hadn't written in a while, so I just wanted to drop in.  But I have one more unrelated topic:

Today I got my economic stimulus check.  Hopefully you all know about this.  The government is giving every one (or most adults at least) $600 in order to help stimulate the economy.  So I'm taking an informal survey:  What are you doing with yours?  I'm not doing anything in particular with mine.  I don't expect every one will just go out and spend the whole thing like some are hoping, but saving or investing it helps the economy to right? (Of course weather or not the government spending another $150 billion helps the economy is debatable, but that's a topic for my other blog.)  So, what are you doing with yours?