too sweaty to think of a title

Running

  • Today: 5 miles, 1:02:26
  • MTD: 22.5 miles Time: 4h 36m 48s
  • YTD: 351.9 miles Time: 2 days, 22h 04m 01s

Dang, I think I just had my most humid run ever. And that’s saying something, living here. Officially, it’s only 80 degrees (at 6 AM) but feels like 88 with the 87% humidity and no wind. (gusts: 4 mph) So I ran five miles. The little box at the right, I may start adding it so that I have a motivation to keep my mileage up (not easy when its, you know, 88% humidity), so don’t be surprised if it pops up on random posts.

Needless to say, I’m sweating like a pig. You’re welcome.

Hey, I’m going to Chicago next week. Mixed business/pleasure. If you’re there and have ideas of things I gotta do, or want to meet up (I’ll buy beer or pizza or whatever), lemme know. It’s just for a few days, so nobody here will miss me (sniff), and I’ll probably post from the road anyway.

In political nonsense, did you see how our esteemed govt. responded to the fact that they couldn’t stop one guy at the border, even when they knew everything about him? Yeah, they relax passport rules. Face it, if there were a real medical (or terror) problem, we’re hosed. Wouldn’t want to inconvenience anyone on their vacation, ya know. I bet they still make me take my shoes off at the freakin’ airport. (as someone wiser than I said, it’s a damn good thing Reid didn’t hide a bomb in his ass, or we’d all have to literally bend over to get on a plane right now)

I’m eating grapes. Anybody want one?

The Bestest Comment of the Morning Award goes to Marjorie, who made my day. Go say hi.

It’s almost time for the kids to wake up, and we’re driving to Shamuland in about an hour. This time I promised them we would get splashed by the freakin’ whales, so I’m wearing my swimsuit. I’ll try and take pictures this time.

Finally, if you’re still reading, I’ve always been curious (especially after reading the response at Avatar’s a while back):

Toilet paper. Over, or under?

30 years ago they were “Where America Shops.”

Does anyone shop at Sears anymore?

I ask only because we went tonight, and it was pretty sad – a shell of what I remember Sears being in days past.

Employees were scarce. Almost as scarce as customers.

I found one fitting room in the entire store, monitored by closed ciruit TV’s at the door and a hundred signs that screamed things just short of “You’re a thief, we’re gonna catch you.”

I didn’t see anything in the place that was full price.

Displays were cluttered, clothes were lying all over the place, the whole store felt slightly dirty.

But hey, I found a swimsuit, and it was on sale (of course, everything is), and I finally found an employee to ring it up at the cash register, and he only half-heartedly tried to get me to sign up for a Sears card; he wanted to get back over to the electronics section where Monster House was playing. The whole thing reminded me of K-mart just before they closed here.