Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Square Root Day

Those who have followed this blog for awhile know that I adore certain number combinations. Until I watched the Rachael Maddow show this evening, I was unaware that today is Square Root Day. 3/3/09 is also 3 X 3 = 9. The last Square Root Day was on 2/2/04; the next will be on 4/4/16. I am sooo excited. (It takes little to excite me.) With the next Square Root Day 1 day, 1 month, and 7 years from now, I affirm that on that date I will be alive, healthy, joyful, and at my goal weight. Also that my country, my world, and all worlds beyond will be in much better shape than now.

I am currently 10.2 miles closer to Quebec than I was in my last post. My first stop, Fairfield, California, is now 32.91 miles away. The Jelly Belly Candy Company has its corporate headquaters there. Perhaps I'll do a virtual tour of the place when I stop there.

I'm finding this virtual walk to an actual place to be very motivating. I think one of the reasons is that no matter how little time I spend on the elliptical, I'm accumulating the mileage of success. Once the mileage is earned it can't be taken away. I think it would be highly awesome if the same dynamics would apply to weight loss, that once the lbs. were gone, they remained gone. I haven't yet taken the few minutes needed to get comfortable with my pedometer. I'll probably do this before my next real world walk.

8 comments:

carla said...

I love RM.

I loathe math.

we're 50.50 :)

Lorraine said...

That is so cool...
my dad witnessed. 3.3.33
March 3, 1933

I mean, talking about numbers ;)

Cory said...

Good job on the mileage!

new*me said...

love my pedometer :)

Never heard of square root day......gosh.....I've been missing so much!!!!

I think the virtual tour sounds a heck of a lot safer :)

Happy Wednesday! Keep on walking!

ArleneWKW said...

Carla: R.M. can be quite a hoot.

Lorraine: 3-3-33 is quite cool. What would be even cooler is to make it to 3-3-3333. I wonder if our planet will still exist.

Cory: Thanks.

Annette: I really do have to get moving re. using the pedometer. I know I'll love it once I do.

Anonymous said...

Never heard of square root day, but I'm very much a fan of anything geeky like that! Thanks for bringing it up. And thanks for popping by at mine.. I thought I'd lost everyone :)

Rebecca said...

Arlene today is 3-6-9. Does that mean anything to you? I'm thinking it must!

ArleneWKW said...

Daniele: I'm glad you're back to blogging. Blogger is making it easy to see when on-line friends start posting again.

Rebecca: 3-6-09 is 3M awesome. The last such date was 2-4-06 and before that 1-2-03. The next such date will be 4-8-12. The series continues up to 12-24-36.