My blog is like: a)     cold fried chicken right out of the 'fridge and eaten over the kitchen sinkb)     an old dilapitated house in the low rent part of town c)      a drunken two in the ay-em missionary boink that just won’t ever endd)     all of the above My standing in the blogging community is: a)     like comparing a crack whore to Mother Teresab)&n...

They lay sideways across her mama’s big bed and listened to the sound of her brother mowing the grass outside. “This is awfully risky” she said. “What if he stops and come in for a drink of water or something and catches us?”“Taking risk is fun” he said. “Besides, if he does stop, we’ll have time.”“Bullshit. If he stops we’re caught. Or mama could come home early, too.”“Just relax and enjoy the moment” he r...

The clock is ticking down.  Less than one week to go now. This morning I ran the last Long Slow Distance I plan to run until the big day next Saturday when I run my first 10k. They call it “tapering” were, although you do not decrease the intensity, you do decrease the miles you put in leading up to the event in order to rest your muscles and prepare for the final push.  So tomorrow I’ll do a few fast uphill sprints and a slooow and easy two miles around the high scho...

Posted May 5, 2008  Currently I am up to 8 mile "Long Slow Distance" runs interspersed with weekly speedwork at the local high school track. So I’m wondering if it is a realistic expectation that I could finish, barring any injuries, a half-marathon by maybe say...October? Definitely do-able Joe! I think so if you follow a training plan. The longest run I had done was 7 miles before I started training for my half. I gave myself 4 months to train, which turned out to be enough for...

I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions. -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words. He had a list of words. Weird words, like auric and bumbledom and chimera. Words like cachinnation and doryphore and epicaricacy. He looked down the list an...

 Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bones. Take this soul, and make it sing… -U2, Yahweh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HE: Ha! So you went skydiving? All I have to say about that is you must not love your life very much. ME: that’s where you’re wrong. I went skydiving because I DO love my life very much.********* Richard Dawkins once made the obvious statement that we are all going to die. But the thing is, he went on to say, is ...

 HE: (while sprawled across coach internet surfing with his laptop) Ha! Now get this! It says here that the experts are sayin’ that ‘sex begins at forty!’ They even have an interview with some woman who says when she was in her twenties she would just lie there and mentally go down the isles grocery shopping while her husband humped away, but now in her forties with her second husband she’s all about it. Now ain’t that some shit? SHE: (curled up under a bl...

If your friends that are broke aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. I read where some financial guru named Dave Ramsey said that and I thought, hmmm… you could take that quote right there and cross that over to a lot of shit other than just money management. Like… If your friends that are still going to titty bars and driving home shit faced in the early ay-em aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. Or… I...

Disclaimer: yeah I know. This shit isn’t for everybody. I just like to post stuff like this to fuck wit ya…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Fartlek’s a funny word but no, it doesn’t have a thing to do with your ass –except maybe for burning it off perhaps. What fartlek means is “speed play” in Swedish and it has to do with, well, lemme let the dictionary tell ya:   A mixture of aerobic and nonaerobic exercise: a method of training, especial...

 ROUND HOLE: Ever notice how you never fit it? SQUARE PEG: Heh, yeah. But it damn sure ain’t for lack a tryin’. ROUND HOLE: Ain’t that the truth! Here you are day in and day out, but you’d a thunk by know… SQUARE PEG: Naaaah, it’s an old story RH. Us’n Square Pegs are used to it. If ya don’t fit, then ya just don’t fit. It’s really quite that simple. ROUND HOLE: But…sometimes I get so bored with all the ...

 Mondays. God love ‘em, they’re really just another day but they get such a bad rap for their name.Monday.It means the first day of the week, when you up-and-at-‘em gotta go back to the proverbial salt mines after two days of real living.But then, for me, this is a day off –the LAST day off of six days in a row I had to burn or I would lose ‘em back to The Job. Heh, and ain’t NO WAY I was gonna give up my time of real living back to The Job. No way i...

I would rather take my chances out there on the ocean than stay here and die. -Tom Hanks as Chuck Nolan in Castaway~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wasn’t really designed for this New Life I’ve been trying to live. I mean, I was actually created for the purpose of living in lazy excess, ya dig? Like smoking and drinking and eating too much and partying and sleeping in.  …And so far I’ve done a fairly good job at it too. But… this?...

Okay, I know this is about as exciting as watching paint dry. You know, look at MY slide show! But what the hey! Here it is. I hope the link works. 

"Fucker," he swore softly under his breath as he slowly ever-so-carefully wiped the lens of the scope clear of sweat. For late April it was already hot, damn hot, and for the millionth time he wondered how he had always managed to endure it. He refocused his eyes again and peered through the crosshairs of his scope and slowly played it in an easy arc across the playground from his high vantage point on the water tower across the street.BAM! He imagined. He could just see all of them&nb...