Thanks! The stairs are the hardest part, mostly because when I go to the next floor, I ahve to be somewhere, at a meeting or the ref desk, and am immediately meeting people and having to explain why I'm panting is annyoing - for some reason nobody every connects "fat" to "out of shape" and it puzzles them why I'm panting so hard after I've gone up stairs. I did like being diagnosed with the asthma, though - I could tell people "exercise-induced asthma" and for some reason tey all understand it better then me going "I came up the stairs." "Why would that do anything?" "Because I am OUT of SHAPE!" As if you couldn't SEE that. *grumble*