Goofy

My phone has an app that tracks healthy behavior,  our lack of it.

It's funny how a little encouragement can motivate me to be more active. 

The phone nags if you don't get 65 minutes of activity. 

There are also step count challenges offered and I rather enjoy those. 

Last month I missed completing the challenge goal by several thousand steps. 

So I ranked about the midway point of those who signed on.

Some people must walk about 4 hours a day to get all these steps.

Maybe they are mostly mail delivery folks on foot?

This month I'm off to a good start.  

But where this gets goofy is that the challenge has awards at milestones/stars as you rack up the steps. And sometimes, a timer pops up on the star.  Then the message says, you must achieve this goal by midnight to get the star.

And by 'getting the star', I mean a text message from the phone saying Good Job.

The bottom line is that by midnight Monday night,  

I needed to hit 25000 steps for the September challenge.  

So, I walked 3.5 miles Monday morning thinking that would do it. 

That was not enough.

Well, I ended up at Wal-Mart at 9pm walking the aisles until I earned the star. 

But I got the goofy star.