I like pulleys.



We bought a Weider X-Factor Plus.  It's an exercise machine with bungees and pulleys.  I like it.  I have been exercising three mornings a week (maybe 5 mornings soon) and I really like the pulleys.  Very smooth and comfortable feeling.  Not like standard weight machines.  I don't like all of the clanking associated with most weight machines.  It fits neatly in the corner of a room.

If you read about it on-line you'll see some complaints about assembling it.  I had a problem with the three steel bars that support the base pad.  They were too long.  I took my grinder to shorten them a bit and then the rest of it went together just fine.  I like the pulleys.

Scrooge

Carol and I watched the Alistair Sims version of "A Christmas Carol" last week.  We love the scenes from the morning after.  I like it when he says "I don't deserver to be this happy!".  Then laughs out loud.  We don't deserve God's good gifts and our salvation but he blesses us anyway. 

A happy, prosperous and joyous new year to you!