Just got back from Spin.  I tried to keep it one gear above the instructor throughout the class and succeeded.  My little app told me I burned 1200 calories again...I'm not so sure.  Although I did eat like a horse when I got home if horses eat a lot.  Speaking of horses...

Yesterday when I was running, there were so many flies.  I had to continuously wave my hands in front of my face to keep them from going in my mouth.  No less than thirty flew in.  I started thinking how badly it would be if I didn't have arms and hands.  Horses must hate life or they don't have a lot of nerve endings around their faces, so its not such an annoyance. Maybe they have more around their butts and that's why they're always swishing their tails.  Maybe we evolved to grow appendages simply because we were annoyed by other organisms.  Funny stuff.  It would be cool to see a horse grow some arms.  Something to hold on to while we're riding.  I look forward to an age when we can grow things like that instead of waiting for the painstakingly slow process of evolution.  Of course, I guess it would still be evolution, but on hyperdrive.