highfunctioningfatman

You're talking about weight loss and I want to enter an aside. Somewhere around here I still have my Girl Scout pin and knife. What I wish I had is my handbook, so informative and interesting. Maybe I can find one online -- as you put it, a well-preserved treasure. My fear, though, is getting a copy and being coldly reminded that it is a children's book.

I also found my original handbook tonight. When I was in Scouts my handbook went everywhere in my backpack. I had beat it up so bad that the covers were long gone so I had drilled right through it and put it in a small binder. It impressed the Eagle Scout board of review so much that a picture of it was displayed in my local council office for years.