This week I ran 17.35 miles, burned 2,187.6 calories and weigh 160.8 pounds.
I ran 5K on Monday at 35:28 and on Friday at 34:15.

I ran 6 miles on Saturday in 1 hour and 20 minutes. It was early afternoon and hot. It was very stupid to run at that time. I got a sunburn on the base of my neck and a headache. I drank a lot of water and Gatorade but it must not have been enough to prevent the headache. I'll get my butt out of bed next Saturday and run in the morning.

A damn rash has flared up on my arms and legs again. I'll put some Cortaid on it so that I won't scratch all my skin off while I sleep. Ah, the joy of waking up with blood on the sheets and under my fingernails and explaining to people what happened to my arms and legs. People look at me funny when I say I did this in my sleep. I have self control when awake but sleeping is a different matter.

Yes, I'm a weirdo that scratches herself bloody while she sleeps.

It is too hot to wear long pants while running. Especially since this is a heat related rash.

This week's book:

Van Helsing's Night Off

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Relax, you're in the Bahamas (How did they know that is where my mind was?)
I need a good person (We all do.)
Become the man that women desire (Isn't Cary Grant dead? Why would I want to be Cary Grant?)
Of fill do arc freeload
A accept on quits
her complain on overcharge
In spell he formal
Linda Causey enlarge girth and length (No thank you!)
IT'S SO SIMPLE
Of lose on frigid
Assertive and strong
Rock solid

Walked 5,945 steps/ 4.45 kilometers.

Lola is coming back. The person who adopted her decided that she was not ready for a dog.

A very interesting site: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
On open is grizzle conceal
For say in lengthways yang

Walked 12,000 steps/ 9.00 kilometers.

I received my Matt Furey Inner Circle CDs and newsletter. It is a sample. I was sent two months of CDs instead of one. I can't wait to check them out.

My neck hurts when I move it a certain way.

So stop moving it that way.

But it is the way to be able to check for oncoming traffic.

Well then do like everyone else in this town. Drive by faith. Just pull out and trust God to handle the rest. What do you think all those fish emblems are for?

I once saw a bumper sticker that asked, "How would Jesus drive?" This led me to ask, "Why do people assume that Jesus would be a good driver?"

Healing the sick, walking on water and feeding 5,000 people is impressive but operating a motor vehicle is different.

Walked 4,265 steps/ 3.19 kilometers.

Lola made herself at home. She jumped on to her new owner's couch and got comfortable. It looks like she found a good home.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
It doesn't hurt to check Theodore
you study at concernedly blackthorn
on go at vindication guesswork

Walked 11,332 steps/ 8.49 kilometers.

My father-in-law starts his new job tomorrow.

Lola goes to her forever home tomorrow. She has been the best foster dog so far.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
casserole portend
sack defuse
No trees were harmed in the making of this floor.
on fill to inferential
on have of scrappy
The use to unshod

This week I ran 16.89 miles, burned 2,116.6 calories and weigh 161.7 pounds.

This week's book:

Nodwick Chronicles II: Of Gods and Henchmen

There are a lot of nerds at church.

Walked 9,944 steps/ 7.45 kilometers. Ran 5K in 34:50. I received the information I need early and accomplished everything today. Even made the copies early.

A nice relaxing evening for me.

Walked 4,114 steps/ 3.08 kilometers.

Salvador needs his own blog.

Walked 10,933 steps/ 8.19 kilometers.

I should not have eaten that second serving of taco pie.

Avoid the seconds and I might lose a couple of pounds.

Start where I am at.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Don't go round the bend
Summer time means no cellulite
was reply he bluecoat

Walked 5,013 steps/ 3.75 kilometers.

What am I running for?

Walked 11,103 steps/ 8.32 kilometers. Ran 5K in 36:10.

I will update the cartoon tonight. A thunderstorm came through while I was working on the newsletter. I got that out just in time.

Yes, I have surge protection and battery back-up but I still prefer to avoid the risks of a lightning strike.

Lola has been adopted but she will not be going to her forever home until the 20th.

I received a great e-mail that made me realize that my attempts at comedy are worth doing.

This week I ran 19.83 miles, burned 2,484.9 calories and weigh 160.8 pounds. So far this year I have ran 455.07 miles and burned 56,517.2 calories.

Lola is now completely clean. She smells nice too.

I have started training for the Miracle Match Marathon in Waco. It is on October 23rd. I think I will take advantage of the tax free weekend next week to purchase some new running shoes.

I posted a multi-panel cartoon. It has been two weeks since the last one. I don't have a story in mind so it is hard to draw the multi-panel toons. I need to put in some serious writing time.

I considered myself blessed to know some very amazing people. On the surface they seem quite ordinary but when faced with difficulties they are amazing.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Being Alone must suck
plaintiff knox
Our God is able
second notification Bradley
your private invitation Lenora
chaucer
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your private invitiation Alan
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I did not realize that I had so many identities.

I did not update last night because of an electrical storm. I've received a jolt through my keyboard once - that is enough for a lifetime. No rain - just lightning.

Lola overturned a container of old motor oil. Walter cleaned up the spill because he has expertise in that area. I cleaned up Lola. Some parts of her body are still discolored. I will clean her some more tonight. Hopefully, there will not be an electrical storm rushing things. Lola tolerates bathing very well. She is a very sweet and goofy dog.

Here is a column that portrays a ray of hope within the Republican party:

Who We Are
By Bob Herbert
The New York Times

You won't find many people willing to accuse John McCain, John Warner or Lindsey Graham of being soft on terrorism. But the three Republican senators are giving the White House fits with their attempt to get legislation approved that would expressly prohibit cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.

There was a dramatic encounter during the floor debate last week when Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, spoke out against the legislation, saying there was no need for it because, as he put it, the detainees are not prisoners of war, "they are terrorists."

Senator McCain, of Arizona, argued that the debate "is not about who they are. It's about who we are." Americans, said Mr. McCain, "hold ourselves" to a higher standard.

The stakes in this confrontation are high. Senators McCain, Warner and Graham are all influential members of the Armed Services Committee (Senator Warner is the chairman), and
they have introduced the legislation in the form of amendments to the nearly half-trillion-dollar Pentagon authorization bill for fiscal 2006.

That such an initiative would come from high-ranking, hawkish Republicans is extraordinary, and the White House is not happy about it. In addition to prohibiting cruel and degrading treatment, the legislation would restrict military interrogation techniques to those authorized in a new Army field manual.

The senators seemed clearly to have been moved by the dismay expressed by current and former members of the military over the lack of uniform standards for the treatment of
detainees. Many have argued that the lack of standards and clear guidance from the highest levels of government have led inexorably to abuses.

Senator McCain has been the point person on the legislative amendments, and his office has released a letter from more than a dozen retired officers, including generals, admirals and former prisoners of war, offering support for his effort to establish standards designed to rein in the abusive treatment of prisoners.

The letter said, in part, "The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers U.S. service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations." Senator Graham, who is from South Carolina, successfully sought the declassification and release of memos from current high-ranking military lawyers who were critical of the legal interpretations by the Bush administration that led to the harsh interrogation policy at Guantánamo. One of the memos, from Maj. Gen. Jack Rives, deputy judge advocate general of the Air Force, said, "Several of the more extreme interrogation techniques, on their face, amount to violations of domestic criminal law" as well as military law.

The White House has fought intensely, but so far unsuccessfully, against this revolt in the usually steadfast Republican ranks. Vice President Dick Cheney, in a meeting with Senators Warner, McCain and Graham, said the legislation would interfere with President Bush's ability to fight terrorism. He was not able to change their minds.

Unable to fend off the amendments, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, put off further consideration of the defense bill until September. Senator McCain and his allies will try to build further support for the amendments during that period. The White House has threatened to veto the defense bill if the amendments are approved.

We should take a moment, however this debate turns out, to applaud the effort by three Republican senators to stand up to the White House and insist that the United States not
just fight harder than its enemies, but also stand taller. No one should be surprised that these voices of reason are coming from men experienced in the ways of war. Senator McCain was a POW for five years in Vietnam. Senator Graham spent many years as an Air Force lawyer. And Senator Warner is a veteran of World War II and Korea.

A few days ago I spoke with John Hutson, a former admiral who is now president of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H. He was one of the signers of the letter to Senator McCain. He stressed that this is a very big issue for the country. If the United States fails to get its act
together with regard to the humane treatment of detainees, he said, we will "have changed the DNA of what it means to be an American."

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The opposition is coming from those who claim to hold a "culture of life" sacred. I guess that proves that the "culture of life" is only for the unborn and vegetative white women. The rest of us can go to hell.

The first step in becoming a terrorist yourself is to no longer recognize the humanity of your perceived enemy. Once that is done suicide bombing, torture and other acts of brutality are no problem to perform.

I pray that when Senator Jeff Sessions prays to his God that his God will grant him the wisdom to understand that as Americans we should hold ourselves to a higher standard and strive to meet and at our very best exceed that standard.

Yes, the people being detained may be terrorists but they are also humans and we should treat them as such. Perhaps they do not deserve to be treated humanely but that is not a determination for us to make. We should do the right thing and give our soldiers the guidance necessary to do the right thing.

Confession time: I worked on Pat Robertson's presidential campaign in 1988.

The journey from Evangelical Christian to Unitarian - Universalist is not as interesting as it appears on the surface. I hold no malice toward Evangelicals but I think the rank and file Evangelical needs to speak up when one of the leaders does something very un-Christ-like. A loving brother or sister corrects another if they are straying from the path.

From: http://tinyurl.com/7aujx (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State)

TV Preacher Prays For More Vacancies On U.S. Supreme Court
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Robertson Seems To View God As 'Divine Hit Man,' Says Americans United's Lynn

TV preacher Pat Robertson is so eager to see the Supreme Court overturn decisions upholding civil liberties that he’s praying for God to create more vacancies on the high court.
Speaking on his nationally broadcast “700 Club” program Aug. 2, Robertson blasted the court for “egregious decisions that have taken us far away from the Constitution.” Among the rulings under fire from Robertson were Roe v. Wade, rulings on the “the so-called separation of church and state,” decisions protecting the civil rights of gay people and the ruling barring the death penalty for juveniles.

The Virginia Beach-based televangelist later launched into a prayer asking God for swift confirmation of Bush nominee John G. Roberts and more vacancies on the high court so that new justice can “dramatically change” judicial policy.

The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, criticized Robertson’s actions.

“Robertson and other Religious Right leaders are so desperate to take over the Supreme Court that they’re trying to move heaven and earth,” Lynn said. “They’re even trying to enlist God in their nefarious court-packing scheme.

“Robertson seems to view God as a divine hit man, taking out justices or anyone else who gets in the way of the Religious Right agenda,” said Lynn. “I think most Americans don’t like to see God dragged into this kind of divisive and demagogic politics.”

In the “700 Club” broadcast, Robertson laid out a religious political agenda for controlling the high court. He urged viewers to participate in “Operation Supreme Court Freedom,” a month-long prayer project intended to beseech God to replace current justices with “righteous judges.”
“Well, the time has come for somebody who says we’re not going to legislate from the bench, we’re going to abide by the Constitution,” Robertson said. “So the president has put forth one person, but there needs to be a couple more.”

Robertson then prayed: “Father, Lord, the government is in your hand, the rulers are in your hand. This great and mighty nation, Lord, stands as a beacon of hope to so many oppressed people. But Lord, if our foundations are crumbling, then this great beacon won’t stand for long. And we pray, Lord, that this one key area of our government might be dramatically changed, that we might see people who respect the Constitution and who respect the fundamental law of the land.

“Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society,” he continued. “Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court, and we ask for additional fine people like John Roberts. Lord, speed this hearing process; may there be no rancor. May the Senate comport itself as it should, and may we see peace, harmony and a rapid confirmation process. Do miracles, Lord. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

Lynn noted that Robertson has a history of controversial activity, whether it’s commanding hurricanes to go out to sea or smiting communities that incur his wrath. He once speculated that Orlando might be hit by a meteor for allowing gay flags to be flown on city streets.

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It would be sort of funny if God answered Rev. Robertson's prayer by killing Justices Scalia and Thomas. I suppose the additional vacancies can happen through retirement.

I took Monday off. I needed to rest.

Went shopping, bought some clothes. I don't enjoy clothes shopping. I enjoyed the company but not the shopping.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
The put of superior man
grace singlehanded

The sea of negativity is up to my ankles.

This week I ran 18.33 miles, burned 2,261.8 calories and weigh 160.4 pounds.

This week's book:

The Land of Nod Treasury

As remedy for the sorry state of radio in Bryan/ College Station, I bought a CD of Ray Charles' greatest hits. Now my drive time will be less frustrating.

I have a new foster dog. A pit bull named Lola. She is real sweet but has major issues with cats. You can see her picture at http://www.woodstocktexas.org

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Go watch do languor

Nothing. I have nothing to write. Nothing interesting to write.

VidSense is a bit of a disappointment. It can't be a daily video clip if the clip does not change daily. The thing is in beta right now. Maybe it will improve.

I'm hitting the sack.

I'm settled in my new office. I have some space for more furniture. Now, I can do some other work.

I need to scan some slides and make prints of an elderly member of the church. I think he might get a kick out of the photos. I will visit him tomorrow after work.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Or smoke go economical
Be stand to arise disappointed
Is smoke on demilitarize

I haven't been wearing my pedometer this week.

Been changing offices the past two days at work. My stuff is in my new office but it is not in any kind of order. I'll be arranging tommorrow. I'll also be throwing a lot of stuff away.

I shall brace myself for the comments. Yes, that set of shelves looks like it was designed to have a door. I know I can unscrew the metal things. The desk is very nice. No I did not repaint. The room did not need it.

For a moment today, I regretted my lack of extended interaction with my co-workers. I don't know why it bothered me today.

At least I get to wear t-shirts and jeans.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Octopuses J. Diss
I read at yoga partizan
He accept do oligarch
To live on quackery clamour
Be see by moresque
On close of whys

Salvador's cage has been moved to the office. He is doing his "this cage is not going to cover itself" chirp. He gets very cranky if he is forced to stay up too much past his bedtime.

There is nothing more dangerous in the morning than a cranky cockatiel.

More poetry from Salvador, the cockatiel:

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This week I ran 11.52 miles, burned 1,407.9 calories and weigh 160.8 pounds.

This week's book:

Sky Ape: All the Heroes

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
so eat so dignity northeasterly
The rain a pinpoint
Of dance at operational

A Perfect World now has daily videos.

Walked 10,386 steps/ 7.78 kilometers.

My father-in-law got a job. We celebrated and went out to Denny's to eat. Not too fancy but at least it was quiet. It was nice to enjoy dinner without having to shout.

Tomorrow I go to Houston to celebrate my father's birthday.

If only my cartoons were drawn half as well and were half as funny. I am jealous of those who are more skilled. It stems from frustration with the fact that I don't see my work improving despite all the drawing and writing that I do. Maybe I should take some classes. Maybe I need to get out of my head for awhile and look around. Maybe I need a real vacation. Maybe I need a change of scenery. Maybe I need to stop beginning sentences with the word maybe.

Here is a better comic strip than I can draw or write:
http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html

The one titled "Mittens" is one of the funniest things I have read in a while. Real laugh out loud funny. Don't have anything in your mouth while looking at this - otherwise your keyboard could get quite messy.

Walked 5,987 steps/ 4.49 kilometers.

Brenna is settling in to her new home.

An interesting website to check out:

Square America
A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography
(Updated Daily)

http://www.squareamerica.com/index.htm

Square America is a site dedicated to preserving and displaying vintage snapshots from the first 3/4s of the 20th Century. Not only do these photographs contain a wealth of primary source information on how life was lived they also constitute a shadow history of photography, one too often ignored by museums and art galleries. Or at least that what I tell people- more accurately, the site is a catalog of my obsession with vintage photographs. For the last eight years or so I've spent countless hours digging through boxes of old snapshots at flea markets (mostly here in Chicago and in NYC) and too much money buying photos on eBay. The site is my attempt to create some kind of organizational framework, however idiosyncratic, for the sprawling mess my collecting has created. More importantly, now that the site is up I can tell people that I'm a curator rather than a collector.

Read all about James Doohan:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/12920.html

Walked 10,642 steps/ 7.98 kilometers.

Beam me up!

Walked 7,704 steps/ 5.77 kilometers.

Brenna might be going to her forever home on Thursday.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

Walked 10,965 steps/ 8.22 kilometers.

The man in the gabardine suit is a spy. His bowtie is really a camera.

Which Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Character are you?

Ceaselessly struggling for a well-deserved redemption, you carefully arrange your alliances and energies.

There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.

This week's book:

Patrick The Wolf , Volume 2

I LOVE TATER TOTS!

This week I ran 18.45 miles, burned 2,239.2 calories and weigh 159.8 pounds.

Brenna is a Petco. Four people filled out adoption applications for her while I was there. She barks at other dogs, especially dogs much bigger than her. I'm sure she has calmed down. I will pick her up at 5:00. Because of all the excitement, she will be very tired when she gets home.

I'm going to take a shower so I don't offend the dogs with my stinkiness when I pick up Brenna.

Walked 11,139 steps/ 8.35 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
become and larger man...
Help Actualise it
three is never a crowd
Which say in clearence axolotl
No borrow it razor

Brenna will be at Petco in College Station from 11:00 to 5:00.

Brenna is receiving inquiries from outside of Texas. She is becoming quite the celebrity. Woodstock is mapping where her inquiries are coming from and they think she might get inquiries from all 50 states. You would think nobody has ever seen a French Bulldog before.

This is the last photo I have of here from this set. I will take some more pictures this weekend.

You can read more about Brenna at woodstocktexas.org

Walked 5,832 steps/ 4.37 kilometers.

Walked 11,799 steps/ 8.84 kilometers yesterday.

I'm running out of pictures of Brenna. I need to take some more.

I'm picking up a new car tomorrow. A 2000 Saturn.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
As Salaam Alaiykum, In the name of Allah
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Brenna is recovering very well. She is more energetic.















It is hard to capture an energetic animal on camera.

Walked 9,264 steps/ 6.94 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Go rain or league nightshirt
Causey embarrass
He accept of unification
Is dance a syndrome

Another picture of Brenna, the recovering from her surgery, French Bulldog:















Walked 6,441 steps/ 4.83 kilometers.

Ate dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. It was good food.

I'm going to bed.

Here's Brenna!














This week's book:


DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe

Check it out! Another picture of Brenna.















She is finally interested in hard food. She had a good time at Starbucks. I enjoyed some iced tea and got a little drawing done. Next week she will be spayed and will get to hang out inside of Petco. Assuming that she is not adopted by then. She has been a great first foster.

This week I ran 17.76 miles, burned 2,193.8 calories and weigh 159.5 pounds.

Goofy spam:
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But sign be diploma
Junior L. Helms
Oh, you are not able to control your feelings!

I'm service leader tomorrow so I need to prepare my script.

Another photo of Brenna:















Smile for the camera!

Walked 9,231 steps/ 6.42 kilometers Thursday, walked 13,347 steps/ 10.01 kilometers today.

I don't care about Naomi Judd.

Goofy spam names and Zen Koans:
The wait an nation
you hurt jail rolling
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Somebody is offering, via e-mail, free horny young lesbians. Free lesbians are not as free as advertised. There is food, water, shelter, health care, time and the expense of doing the responsible thing - spaying. Don't want to contribute to the lesbian over population problem. They are cute when they are young but lesbian ownership is a lifetime committment. Someday that lesbian will not be so horny or young. Will you still love your lesbian once the cuteness wears off? One should think about these things before answering that ad for free horny young lesbians.

No update last night because of a thunderstorm. We needed the rain.

There is a large tree branch in the front yard and our mailbox is down.

Brenna will be going to adoption for a short time. Since she is in heat, she won't be going into Petco. She might drive other dogs crazy. People are coming to see her so I will be with her at the nearby Starbucks and anyone who wants to see her will be directed over there. Fortunately, I will only be there from 11:00 am - noon. I don't think I can handle sitting outside of Starbucks for 6 hours - in July - in Texas. Especially, since I am not a coffee drinker.

I bought a diaper for Brenna. She has to wear that while she is at Starbucks. The diaper does not fit well because the designed is based upon a dog with a tail. Brenna does not have much of a tail.

She will get spayed next week and after that dog diapers will no longer be necessary.

I'll update the cartoon tonight.

Walked 10,804 steps/ 8.10 kilometers.

Another picture of Brenna:














She had her rabies shot today, so she will be able to go to the adoptions at Petco this Saturday. Adoption is on Saturdays, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Petco in College Station, Texas. Brenna has already received several inquiries and there are people driving in to see her Saturday.

Also found out that she is in heat. She cannot be spayed until she is out of heat.

She loves basking in her container of water.

Brenna, the French Bulldog:















She is available for adoption via woodstocktexas.org

Who can resist that face?

This week's book:

2000 Year Old Man Goes to School

Walked 8,938 steps/ 6.70 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Go reply it wend
Is finish or singly showplace
An see a restoration
Or count in disconsolate cannibalize
Osceola D. Resend
do accept by omen basketball

Religion is like a smile on a dog.

Thursday I walked 7,076 steps/ 5.30 kilometers. Friday I walked 14,419 steps/ 10.31 kilometers.

This week I ran 16.44 miles, burned 2,038.9 calories and weigh 160.7 pounds. So far this year I have run 369.18 miles and burned 45,929.6 calories.

Brenna is doing well. She tested negative for heartworms and got her Frontline and de-worming and other treatments. I will have to make an appointment for rabies and spaying. She did okay at puppy class.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
do sleep so illustrative libretto
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Interesting column by David Broder at WashingtonPost.com.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902587.html


THE PRICE OF PUBLIC TV'S WIN
The victory that public television won last week when the House restored the committee-mandated 25 percent cut in its funds came at a price. That price will be paid, as is so often the case in today's Washington, by the people who depend on government help for essential health care and education and job-training services.

Walked 11,332 steps/ 8.49 kilometers.

Brenna is doing well. I will be taking her to work on Friday. She shows very little interest in Salvador. She tries to interact with Gigi, my father-in-law's blind and deaf 18 year old toy poodle, with little success.

I need to take some pictures. I need to get her a toy.

Where does the time go?

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Linda bebop
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Pancras Bellamy
into some clever
But drive it exalt boo

Walked 8,383 steps/ 6.28 kilometers.

My father-in-law arrived safely.

The foster dog is a female French Bulldog named Brenna. She is real sweet and is laying under my desk at the moment.

I'll post pictures soon.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Have leave my repository frivolity
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on see at spartan
connect with and
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you put to uncolored racket
Causey consanguine
My stand he cowling
Platen B. Saroyan

Walked 12,432 steps/ 9.32 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
My stand he cowling
Platen B. Saroyan
Absolutely nothing to regret

My father-in-law is coming to live with us for a while.

Tommorrow I pick up my first foster dog.

This week's book:


The Superhero Handbook

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
It sing or launch
He hear be shot
Amado H. Lifetime
My eat he multitudinous
It write of rushlight diminutive

I did a bad thing today.

I bought some sushi from the grocery store. I went home and put the sushi on a plate, along with the ginger, soy sauce and wasabi. Before preparing lunch I let Salvador out of his cage. He flew to the counter and started chatting to his true love, the toaster. Sal did not appreciate me preparing my lunch on the same counter. He was curious and sniffed my lunch but then went back to the toaster.

I got a bit of wasabi on my finger so I put that finger toward Salvador. He bit it and got a taste of wasabi. He shook his head several times, then rubbed his tongue on the counter and huddled by the toaster.

That was mean but I did it two more times. Now Sal won't let me pet him. After the third time I gave him a taste of wasabi, he ran away when I offered to pet him. Hopefully, he will have forgiven me by tomorrow.

I know it was mean but it was still funny.

Right now Salvador is playing around in a cubby hole.

This week I ran 17.21 miles, burned 2,085.5 calories and weigh 159 pounds.

Yesterday I walked 13,167 steps/ 9.87 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Great Sex Pills cutoff
curia consternate
kuhn aural
so fly by stoppage sake
so type as czech spotter
it have no comeback mildly
A cancel so macadam
Is clean on rumpus buttonhook
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I like the rush I get when eating wasabi. Yow!

Cox sucks. Cox internet. The damn high speed connection has been crawling at night or only one of us can get online.

Time to call Cox and remind them that we are paying for two IPs. Periodically, Cox forgets and only allots one IP and we call tech support and they look at our account and discover, "wow, you are paying for two IPs".

Yes, yes we are. So why can't both of us get online.

Because, we at Cox internet are absolute morons and as stupid people it is our duty to inconvenience the customers from time to time. Especially loyal customers who have been paying for two IPs for over six years. Actually, the truth is we at Cox internet are terribly lonely and from time to time screw things up just so that you will call and we gain the privilege of hearing your lovely voice. The slight southern drawl is a real turn on. Anyhow, since you have graced our lives with your voice, your second IP is now up and as an apology for our screw up we will alter your bill to reflect the days that you only had one IP. Oh and please come by our offices between 8:00 am and 10:00 pm and give each of us the bitch slapping we so richly deserve.

[REALITY!]

Sorry, I drifted off to fantasy land.

Actually what happens is that one of us calls. Tech support discovers that we are paying for two IPs and does whatever is necessary to get the second IP back. The tech is informed that both of our computers now have access. He is thanked and the call is ended. Repeat every 9 - 12 months.

Our bill is never altered to reflect the lack of service but as middle class Americans we have been conditioned to accept regular [insert vulgar and violent sexual imagery here] from corporations and government. It is the price we pay for the privilege of living in the United States. It is reflection of God's blessings that me and family do not get ass-raped as often and as hard as other people whom God, for whatever reason, does not seem care about as much.

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My god, it is amazing what not being able to access the internet inspires. Irritation at a slow/ non-existent internet connection to cynicism about a fundamental belief held by many Americans.

This thing has taken a good portion of my life. Not necessarily a bad thing, just an observation.

The boring bit: walked 7,903 steps/ 5.92 kilometers.

Walked 10,200 steps/ 7.65 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
And clean at recognition harassment
know what kind
Of fill is noteriety
stingy goddess
bittersweet Causey chili
Tinkered O. Grubbiest

Walked 8,867 steps/ 6.65 kilometers.

Damn, my FTP connection is running slow. I've made tea, talked to my father-in-law, took out my contacts and the darn thing is still uploading. All connections have been slow tonight. High speed, indeed.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
alison Linda
Agar Hashemi ra be Ahmadinejad tarjih midahid:
That reply do effendi grandfather
by know so formica
Confidential fashion store nautilus

I received this e-mail from a clueless person:
I have a Lady Kenmore Heavy Duty Dryer and the plastic vent that stores the lint is broken. Can I order a replacement part?

I only have a website mocking the 1971 Sears Catalog. I know it is number 2 on Google but upon visiting the website it should be very clear that I do not sell Sears products.

My damn file still isn't finished uploading!

Walked 10,345 steps/ 7.75 kilometers.

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Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
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an take of dude

This week's book:

Patrick the Wolf Boy, Volume 3

This is what happens when a cockatiel runs amok on your keyboard, with a word document open, while you are away:

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Walter added the KILL to mess with me. The rest was typed by Salvador. Sal managed to engage the Caps Lock.

Salvador likes the number 3.

3 is the magic number.

This week I ran 9.35 miles, burned 1,156.3 calories and weigh 157.8 pounds.

I did not run today because I was visiting my father for Father's Day. He informed me that he came across my blog while doing a Google search on my great(2) grandfather. It is number two after MSN movies: biographies of George Custer and Richard Simmons. I was surprised but not too distressed since I try to keep the promise of this blog's second tagline (The world's most boring blog) and avoid writing negative things about my family. I really don't have anything negative to write about my family even if I was inclined to do so. Compared to the trainwrecks I have read about on the internet - they are great. Actually, they are great without the comparison.

If I wanted to write a blog griping about my family I would do it over at My Space or Xanga and pretend to be 16 years old. I would also make up another family.

I couldn't pull off the act because I've replaced most of my memories of 16 with useless pop culture trivia and keyboard shortcuts. All that is left is embarrassment about my younger self.

I love my family, especially my sister Sheeniqua.

A couple of nights ago, I was checking where my visitors were coming from and who is using my clip art and cartoons and found that My Space is being invaded by "old people". Or at least old by My Space standards. 28 is quite elderly over at My Space.

Actually, I think it would be more fun writing a blog at My Space posing as an 80 year old woman. Have Glen Miller as my background music and pictures of Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart decorating my blog. Write a few rants to rattle the kids.

I do have plenty of better things to do in my real life than to set up a pretend life.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Confidence is back (2)
Be moeen ray bedah...
Not allow be wifely mineral
capetown Causey
civil Linda Causey eyed
Linda, Stop Working So Hard (4)
As open be cardsharp phallic
As need do operate

I'm going to take the advice of my spam and go relax on the couch.

Walked 12,615 steps/ 9.46 kilometers.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
Make this email make a difference for you boat
Suprise for your woman...
kay Linda pow
visceral
Linda penultimate
Odis F. Khan - detach Linda dnieper
Linda Causey corcoran
Linda Causey episodic
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Drily P. Bifocals
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With have a western
textron Linda
Great Sex Pills archangel
look through the letter - more pleasure
Great Sex Pills poach
bohr
Intimacy is a vital part of any union.
My cancel in commonplace herbaceous
Be smoke an hove
He learn a hasty
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Is worry to attune salacity
Of comb in spasm
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United lac States
was work in convalescent

My deleted items folder is empty.

Walked 5,617 steps/ 4.21 kilometers.

Went to a very enjoyable and productive meeting. I hope the rest of my meetings are like this.

Walked 11,226 steps/ 8.41 kilometers.

People from Woodstock visited the house. We signed the paperwork and now we wait for a foster dog. This should be exciting.

Got most of my information transfered from the IIIe to the Zire. I haven't installed the software for the Zire yet. I hope to be able to simply transfer the rest of the information electronically.

I like the Zire.

Now I have to get something for Walter for Father's Day. The gift will be from Salvador.

Walked 7,109 steps/ 5.33 kilometers.

The church board meeting went well. A lot was accomplished and there was cheesecake.

Walter bought me a new Palm Zire. I can draw. Now I just have to transfer the information from my IIIe to the Zire. This should be interesting.

Walked 9,941 steps/ 7.45 kilometers.

I am attempting to cut out caffeine after 6:00 pm. Hopefully, this will help me sleep better. It has been two days since I decided to do this.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
rectangular Linda Causey shipyard
so bring my suicide labor
A Moral Jones - Citizens declare WAR on Porn being delivered to children, and were going to WIN
everyday Causey
pay attention to the message - longer longer longer
her try by thermosetting
Veronica said leave tomorrow
Linda Causey taxiway
Or tell the bass

*YAWN*

This week's book:


Gutsman

Spam Zen koans:
As swim no cardsharp secondary
hop California born and raised, Cami is an excellent pole smoker.
analytic Linda Causey armpit

This week I ran 16.38 miles, burned 2,020.2 calories and weigh 157.8 pounds.

Salvador has been in an exceptionally bitchy mood today. He has done nothing but scream. He screams in his cage. He screams outside of his cage. He screams on his box. He preens a little then he screams some more. Look at him and he screams. Ignore him and he screams.

Walter has come home. Sal has stopped screaming. He is now exploring a shelf where is not suppossed to be. At least he is quiet.

Spam Zen koans:
No start so showpiece
As in use verisimilitude bamboozle

Now I will get my freak on.

Walked 12,785 steps/ 9.58 kilometers.

Goofy spam names:
Collied M. Mismanage
Malaysians P. Seraphim
Disenfranchised H. Markups
Geranium U. Reykjavik

I'm tired.

*YAWN*

Scored 51 points on this 80's music quiz.

Walked 8,454 steps/ 6.34 kilometers.

I successfully fried fish for dinner tonight. This was my first attempt. I used Zatarain's Southern Style Fish Fry as a breading.

There is still plenty of fish in the freezer. At least 5 more meals worth.

Glub glub.

Walked 9,798 steps/ 7.34 kilometers yesterday.

Watched "Big Fish" last night. It was a good movie. It is amazing that Englishmen, Albert Finney and Ewan MacGregor can do good southern accents but American Danny DeVito could not. Steve Buscemi was able to pull off a decent Alabama drawl.

I'll have to check the IMDB to find out more about the actress that looked like a young Jessica Lange and the actor that played Carl the giant.

Walter and I both noticed that Albert Finney, in this movie, looks a lot like William Shatner.

Before watching Big Fish, we were watching a special on Animal Planet about cartoon animals. Like every special about American animation this special went on and on about the cleverness and wit of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

News Flash: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is not that clever or witty. Maybe it was clever and witty compared to Hanna-Barbara's TV toons but that is not saying much.

It was poorly drawn. Why there are people still lifting up this waste of celluloid, I do not understand. Rocky and Bullwinkle does not reverberate through mass consciousness like the Looney Tunes or even Scooby Doo.

Who can sit through a Wagnerian opera or the Barber of Seville without suppressing the urge to sing along using the Bugs Bunny lyrics? Or watch Star Trek VI on TV and wonder if they are going to use the Scooby Doo ending?

It is not for lack of trying that I do not understand why Rocky and Bullwinkle is uplifted by certain people. I've made attempts to appreciate this cartoon at various stages in my life. Every time I come away thinking, "This is crap. What is the big deal?" It has nothing to do with dated references - I get the dated humor in Laugh In and Get Smart and still find it funny. I can get some of the even older references in WWII Looney Tunes and still find them amusing.

Maybe Rocky and Bullwinkle was something great in its period but unlike other cartoons cannot transcend it. Rocky and Bullwinkle must be one of those "you had to be there" cartoons. Unfortunately, a lot of people were there and they are making the rest of us suffer by going on and on about the so-called genius of this cartoon and failing to realize that while it was an enjoyable part of their childhood, it was a cheaply drawn diversion between commercials - hell - it had commercials right in the cartoon. Not everything from the Baby Boom childhood was great. Most of it was a crass attempt to sell things. Nothing magical. Just Madison Avenue.

Hong Kong Phooey was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. Had a cool theme song, Scatman Crothers, a striped cat named Spot and some funny gags. It was a great part of my childhood and others my age enjoyed too. But it was also cheaply drawn and through an adult's eyes the gags are stupid. The show evokes happy memories and feelings and Sublime's version of the theme song is great but I have no illusions about Hong Kong Phooey. It was cheaply drawn diversion between commercials. Nothing more. I do not attempt convince others outside my age group and culture otherwise.

That trick never works.

Walked 7,071 steps/ 5.30 kilometers.

A shout out to Bozeman, Montana for having the most amusing police reports I've ever read.

http://www.math.montana.edu/~jobo/police/index.html

Cows at large. Scary stuff.

Walked 11,176 steps/ 8.38 kilometers.


The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

The Unitarian Jihad

On the way to church, yesterday, Walter and I listened to a preacher on the radio. The preacher bellowed that in his life he found that the good things that happened to him are because God is in his life and that the bad things that happened to him are because he was in his life. The preacher demanded an amen but did not receive one. I suppose even the excitement of the moment could not cloud the thinking of the congregation.

What kind of screwed up theology was the preacher preaching? Let God control your life and good things will happen - take control of your life and bad things will happen. Did this man stop and think just how fucked up that is before writing the sermon? In the preacher's defense, he did qualify that by referring to his own life. The preacher has had a truly blessed life so far if he is able to give credit to God for the good and blame himself for the bad. Maybe this man has not experienced anything truly horrible.

I pray that this preacher does not experience anything truly horrible. It might shake his faith or perhaps on the other side of the suffering he becomes a better minister but I do not want to wish suffering on anyone. That would be a bit presumptuous on my part anyway. The preacher might call the suffering part of God's plan (even though it is your fault for attempting to control your life). I suppose that is one way to avoid despair. Not too comforting.

What truly amazes me is that churches with preachers that preach the sort of theology that gives glory to God for the good and places blame for individual suffering on the individual are growing. Perhaps the whole thing is a bit more nuanced once one gets past the bellowing, charismatic preacher.

Church is about personal growth and community. Church should be the last place to find condemnation. There is no condemnation in the Unitarian - Universalist faith but yet it is not growing as fast as the religions that are more strident about the cause of personal suffering. I guess it is part of human nature to be challenged to face whatever demands life throws in our way. Even the artificial demands of dogma.

Contrary to popular belief, the creedless faith of Unitarian - Universalism does make demands of its adherents. Other religions have the advantage of clear, but sometimes confusing and contradictory, instructions in meeting the demands of faith and facing the questions of existence. Contradictions and confusion can be cleared through more prayer, more faith or just simply trusting God and stop thinking and asking questions. Unitarian - Universalism refuses to accept those prescriptions or the assumption that those prescriptions will work for everyone. The demanding part of Unitarian - Universalism is being able to accept the idea that your truth and spiritual path may not work for someone else and still be able to live in community with that person whose truth is quite different from your own. It is not as easy as it sounds given humanity's demand for conformity.

Here is the evangelism bit: visit http://www.uua.org to learn more about Unitarian - Universalism and why our faith's name is so damn long.

Yesterday walked 12,703 steps/ 9.52 kilometers.

This week ran 14.75 miles, burned 1,799.8 calories and weigh 159.5 pounds. So far this year have ran 309.8 miles.

I received my book and DVD from the Dallas White Rock Marathon. I flipped through the book but have not watched the DVD.

Walked 10,600 steps/ 7.95 kilometers.

About the mime cartoons: I don't know, I thought of several mime gags and decided to draw them all. Actually, there are only 4 mime gags for now.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be a mime when I grew up. It was the 1970's and mimes had their own TV show. The whole thing looked cool to me. That phase lasted 3 months.

What ever happened to Shields and Yarnell?

Walked 11,824 steps/ 8.86 kilometers.

I had a bit of free floating frustration today. It was stimulated by the revelation about Deep Throat and the Watergate flashbacks. I found it annoying that Watergate is revisited while greater crimes go virtually unreported. Crimes that do not require a Deep Throat to guide reporters.

I will be posting multi-panel comics as I finish them. I'm behind schedule on those. I've got one on the scanner and have started drawing another one.

I got a conversation started which lead to narrowing things down so that a decision can be made sooner.

Deep Throat has been revealed and the news is all about Watergate. The media wonders if another scandal on the magnitude of Watergate could happen again.

I had to laugh when that question came up. 1,600 and counting dead Americans and several thousand Iraqis killed based on lies. The justification for invading Iraq was based on lies. The US media does not question anything the administration says and when the falsehoods are exposed only offer weak apologies and empty promises to do better next time.

This is bigger than Watergate. Although, it is not quite as important as the results of the Michael Jackson trial.

The media will relive the glory of exposing Nixon's crimes 30 years ago while ignoring the greater crimes of the current president and his men.

This Watergate thing reminds me of the Unitarian - Universalist movement. Every Sunday near Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday UU ministers and publications talk about the participation of UUs in marches and those who have died for the cause in the 1960's. We celebrate the lives and sacrifices of those brave UUs. I am struck by their bravery but leave the service wondering what have we done since. Nobody talks about that. I'm afraid of the answer I might find.

Even my local church celebrates the brave acts of its members performed during the Vietnam War. I'm left to wonder about the relevance of our religious movement as a force for societal change when all we do is look at our past. I enjoy history as much as anyone but it is time to leave the battles of 1960's and 1970's.

I don't know. It just seems to me that our UU movement is being led by a bunch of fogeys that only want to relive the past and bore to tears a growing segment of our denomination with their stories of past glory.

I'm having trouble articulating my frustration. I don't know if the frustration is with society at large, the UUA, my local church or with myself at my own indifference. At least the fogeys have stories to tell.

I'm sure someone will correct me in regards to the actions of UUs beyond the 1960's. I should look for myself without fear of the answers and whether those answers will only fuel my frustration.

This is not as easy at it looks.

Walked 6,253 steps/ 4.68 kilometers.

Took the day off to rest from my vacation. I did not realize that fishing was so exhausting. Walter caught three fish worth keeping. The filets are in our freezer. My brother cleaned the fish.

Actually, I needed the day to get back to reality.

On the way back we visited the Caddoan Indian Mounds. It was interesting.

Back to work tomorrow.

Walked 4,065 steps/ 3.04 kilometers yesterday.

Gone fishin'

Won't update until Monday.

Walked 11,955 steps/ 8.96 kilometers.

Sometimes I get an image of a cartoon without a caption or a gag. Sometimes a vague notion of a gag appears but it is not as strong as the image.

I drew this cartoon last week:



I had a vague idea of a caption. Something about this lady contemplating a highly esoteric subject. A subject that a middle aged lady living in a mobile home would not normally contemplate.

I'm having trouble with this one. A little help from the readers would be nice. If you come up with a funny caption, you will have my gratitude, credit when this is actually published on the website and the satisfaction of knowing that you made the world a less somber place.

Please leave a comment and a caption.

Walked 7,320 steps/ 5.49 kilometers.

Last week I ran 11.18 miles, burned 1,341.2 calories and weigh 158 pounds. Today I walked 12,799 steps/ 9.59 kilometers.

I was elected President-Elect of the Board of Trustees of my church. The congregation also voted to change use the term church in our name.

Walter and I had a good anniversary celebration. According to tradition this is the steel anniversary.

We saw Star Wars III. Why did Count Dooku look so surprised when Palpatine told Anakin to kill him? What did he expect from a dark lord of the Sith? If Obi-Wan Kenobi loved Anakin like a brother, why didn't he end his suffering? In a way Anakin brought balance to the force - 2 Sith lords, 2 Jedi knights - that is balance. Anakin does not destroy the Sith until Episode 6 then some teddy bears dance in the woods.


Big Book of the Unexplained

Walked 12,702 steps/ 9.52 kilometers.

Tomorrow is our 11th wedding anniversary. 11 glorious years of wedded bliss. I'm so happy.

Walked 8,849 steps/ 6.63 kilometers.

God bless Star Wars geeks. They make Trekkies seem normal by comparison.

Yes, I will be a good little geek and see Revenge of the Sith this weekend. Must do my part to make George Lucas rich.

Walked 10,181 steps/ 7.63 kilometers.

Goofy spam names:
Hemorrhoid G. Cauliflower

Rest in Peace, Frank Gorshin

I walked 6,918 steps/ 5.18 kilometers.

Listening to "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"

Why do I bother? Sometimes I feel like venting but by the time I get home and actually open up Blogger - the frustration is gone. Frustration has a way of disappearing at 5:00 pm. I don't take it home or to the gym. Heck, I don't even take it to lunch. The job is just something I do in exchange for money so that I can do things I enjoy.

Either I have a higher tolerance for stress or my job is not really as stressful as my co-workers make it out to be. My high school English teacher would cringe if she read that last sentence. Two years of the finest instruction that state of Texas can offer and I write this crap. Use active voice not passive.

Having had the active voice thing drilled into me does not enhance my gag writing skills. Sometimes, it is funnier in passive voice.

Eww.

I should imitate the average blogger and not proofread the stuff I type. I understand that content is more important than grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and spelling. The "old person" in me would counter, "How can I understand your content if you refuse to follow the rules of grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and spelling?"

Not coming across as ignorant is just so uncool. That's okay, I'll crush you. More of earth's limited resources for me. Ha!

Listening to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys

Found some blog things and posted them in the previous entries. Fun but pointless things.

I'm going out of my head over you.

Your Political Profile

Overall: 40% Conservative, 60% Liberal

Social Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

Your Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Your SAT Score of 1040 Means:

You Scored Higher Than Howard Stern You Scored Lower Than George W. Bush You Scored Lower Than Al Gore You Scored Lower Than David Duchovny You Scored Lower Than Natalie Portman You Scored Lower Than Bill Gates

Your IQ is most likely in the 110-120 range

Equivalent ACT score: 22

Schools that Fit Your SAT Score: CUNY - Queens College The University of Texas at Arlington University of Nevada, Las Vegas Bowling Green State University California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

What Does Your SAT Score Mean?

You Are 45% Normal (Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

I walked 10,252 steps/ 7.68 kilometers.

I slept real well last night. I was not too groggy this morning, although I hit the snooze button 4 times.

Chammoile tea works wonders. Sleeping pills even more wonders. Put the two together - makes for a good night's sleep. If Walter snored last night, I did not know it.

Time to harvest.

R. Crumb Handbook and CD

On Friday I walked 16,046 steps/ 12.03 kilometers. This week I ran 17.58 miles, burned 2,124.8 calories and weigh 158.7 pounds.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
branded quality
diabetic Tanavan
it's time
Ladies the relationship solver
Antidote healing power
antibody Retet
buoy columbus
sexy disallowances russian beauties
Loudly K. Draftsman
demise Dimentabs
the fear somewhat

I walked 9,743 steps/ 7.30 kilometers.

Goofy spam names:
Menageries D. Belonging
Lashing O. Crannying
Cookbook Q. Fokker

I've been approved to be a foster home to dogs. All that is left is the home visit. Hopefully, we will get our first foster in June.

I walked 10,967 steps/ 8.22 kilometers.

I've got the volume set on my alarm. It woke me up.

The local radio stations suck, especially in the morning. Who in their right mind finds DJ chatter amusing? If wanted to listen to talking, I would listen to NPR. The only DJ chatter I want to hear is DJs screaming as they are shocked by cattle prods at every lame attempt at humor. When did 12 year olds become such a large market segment?

Apology for the day:
I'm sorry but I do not miss Sex in the City.

Wish for the day:
A radio station that plays songs that do not suck.

I walked 10,423 steps/ 7.81 kilometers.

I slept through my alarm this morning. I turned up the volume so hopefully that won't happen again.

I got a free breakfast at Sonic. They did not have tater tots so I received the rest of my meal for free. Pretty good beginning for the day.

Apology for the day:
I'm sorry but I've never found Seinfeld to be all that funny.

Wish for the day:
I wish they would stop televising poker.

Red Meat Gold (Red Meat Cartoon Series)

I took a day off for mental health purposes. Did not get much done but I feel rested. Yeah, I skipped a day on my website update.

I had a good visit with my mother yesterday. My brother fried some fish. Tarter sauce was discussed at greater length than tarter sauce ought to be discussed. I tend to blank out during those kinds of discussions.

I've been blanking out quite a bit lately. I guess real life is not holding my interest too much right now. Maybe this whole thing is serving the same purpose as the dream state in sleep. When I snap out of it, I'll be more focused and move on. Sort of a dormant state before the growth burst.

I hope the boundaries don't get too blurry.

Yesterday I walked 6,540 steps/ 4.90 kilometers.

I'm in a much better mood today. I received my official race results from the Parkinson's Association. I ran the 5K in 32:44. Significantly faster than the 12 minute mile pace I originally planned.

I still need a vacation.

I walked 10,089 steps/ 7.56 kilometers yesterday.

I had a long meeting last night, so I went straight to bed after coming home. I updated the cartoon this morning. I contemplated taking a mental health day off but decided against it. That's a sure sign that I needed to take the day off. I had the brief delusion that my work is essential.

I hate this @#$%! job! The job itself does not suck but sometimes I feel that it is sucking the life out of me. Suddenly, brick laying seems a rather appealing line of work.

I really need to take some time off.

I walked 10,160 steps/ 7.62 kilometers.

I have the ability to hit the snooze button and resume the dream I was having before the alarm went off. This was not the super power I was hoping for. Regardless, with great power comes great responsibility and I shall use my power for good.

Goofy spam names and Zen koans:
inflect Melate
Arcs S. Comprehensively

I walked 10,785 steps/ 8.08 kilometers.

The comedy well ran dry today, so I drew a cartoon about the comedy well running dry. I need to write some more gags. Actually put aside time to write. Now would be a good time except I'm writing this blog and it is getting close to my bedtime. I can't yawn and write funny stuff at the same time.

Walter played a funny trick on me. I sent him a very suggestive text message. Later, he calls me and says he is at the bank and asks if I am aware that his phone has a text message voice feature. A feature that reads a text message aloud. He went on to say that my message got the attention of everyone in the bank and that they would like to here the rest of the story tomorrow. He strung me along and then confessed that his phone does not have the feature that he was describing.

Friday I walked 12,494 steps/ 9.37 kilometers. This week I ran 15.88 miles, burned 1,947.7 calories and weigh 158.7 pounds. So far this year I've ran 247 miles.

Today was a great day. Had a great time in Sunday School class, skipped the regular church service to catch Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ate a good meal and bought another Star Trek book. Walter rented Doom 3 for X-Box.

Hitchhiker's Guide is a great movie. Be sure to stay through the credits.