Approximately five years ago, I weighed 210. I got on the scale recently... 238. Dangit. Again. That's only about fifteen pounds off my heaviest record weight seven or eight years ago.

I don't think of myself as a yo-yo dieter. I gained a lot of weight, stayed steady right around this weight for several years, lost it for several years, bounced up about ten pounds then watched my eating again to lose it, and then slowly regained over the course of several more years. Basically one big thirteen-year cycle of up, down, then back up again. I guess perhaps that qualifies as yo-yo dieting, but I think of months and not decades for weight loss/gain to qualify.

You know, I've never given the IRS my email address in my entire life. How ever did they find me? And why are they using a mail relay from a DSL line on Southwestern Bell's network?