March 2008

Just saw the State Farm commercial where the guy is embarassed (and ridiculed by his cow-orker “Sheila”) for wearing bike shorts and riding his bike to work.

You know, if he’d switch to State Farm, he’d save so much he could fill up his truck with gas two, maybe three times!

So, fuck the planet. Just get cheaper insurance and you’ll be fine.

Another month, and it was OK running wise. I have 47 miles on the log, which is the most since October. Yay.

I’m almost to the end of my Hal Higdon Spring Training, two weeks left, so that means I need to get cracking and plan out the next step. Should I shoot for a half marathon, or a ten K?

I have no illusions that I am a fast runner, no, and I’m worried enough about my joints to not push it, because I am definitely a fat runner. I’m about 265 right now, which is 100 pounds over where my doctor wants me. Yeah, I’m workin’ on it.

I also turned 43 today. Another yay. Feels an awful lot like 42 (emphasis on ‘like.’)

I was at the wholesale store today, getting vanilla, and there was a girl struggling with a bag of sugar. Okay, it was a 50 pound bag of sugar, but I was already there so I said “You want some help?”

“It’s stuck or something.”

It wasn’t, it was just heavy and at an awkward angle for her, but after I dropped it in her cart she was extremely gracious. It was almost funny, I’ve never seen anybody that happy to get a bag of sugar before.

I mopped the floor this morning, so it’s nice and clean for at least a couple hours. My dogs, cats, and kids are already plotting to mess it up again, I can just tell.

Oh, funny thing yesterday. We were outside and my daughter saw her friend, our next door neighbor who is a couple years younger than her. They were getting in their car, so she ran over to say hi. (remember, she’s only four). When she came back, she said, matter-of-factly: “They’re going to a wedding. He’s gonna marry someone.”

And as cute as that is, she also says “marry,” in the cemetery sense, when we drive past a graveyard she says “Is that where people are married?”

It’s not a secret, I’m a sucker for movies released on the 4th of July holiday. Just about every summer I’ll find something I want to see. Last year we saw Transformers, for example, and we were 800 miles from home in a condo on the freakin’ BEACH and we still went to the movies. It was raining, really hard, that day, but still.

So, this summer? I’m dying to see this one:

Never mind that, if I could, I would have Will Smith’s baby. This looks like a great movie. Even if it’s crap, it’ll be great crap.

More pictures here. Thanks to Joblo for the heads up.

Will you watch the Chinese Olympics?

Why or why not?

I’ll share my thoughts soon.