Foot racing to Putabin Key.

I'm reading a book. It's causing me a lot of stress and I love it. Also, I was free-writing this morning and decided I needed a social media detox. That doesn't include blogging, and I do no need to keep up with my assistantship, which is in social media. But I am going to avoid FB and TWT for the time being.

Because I have no classes. Because it is summer, which provides the illusion of freetime. Because I still have two jobs, and a lot of personal writing work to do. Not just writing, but submitting proposals, etc.

Distance: 5.25 miles
Duration: 53:30
Pace: 10:10
Route: Forest Hill/Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 82°
Climate: sunny & hot
Mood: good
Weight: 177 lbs. (-1.0)

Hot run, casual. Quite sunny. Perfect album for it. Good lord. Sweaty. I did not expect to run to the entire albu, but I had a mood.

When I Was Born for the 7th Time - Cornershop (1997)

Sleep On the Left Side

Brimful of Asha

Butter the Soul

Chocolat *

We're in Yr Corner

Funky Days Are Back Again

What Is Happening?

When the Light Appears Boy

Coming Up

Good Shit

Good To Be on the Road Back Home

It's Indian Tobacco My Friend *

Candyman

State Troopers (Pr. 1)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Alternate (US) Cover

The late 1990s I loved all the new shit that was coming down the pipe. Music was experimental, and it was out there, but sometimes you had to find it. "Brimful of Asha" was a minor hit and I was like what is this?

Listening to this record makes me want to smoke a lot of pot. I think that's what it's for. But as I am an ageing Gen Xers, the real reason this one has popped up is the opening track. Sleep on the left side, keep the sword hand free. Not for me, though. Sleep on the left side, because sleeping on the right side means you cannot relax for the hard beating of your heart. 

Sunday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (3x)
Lunch: beef ramen w/pork rib, Diet Coke (1x)
Anniversary Dinner: cocktail (1x), 1/2 goat cheese tart, watercress salad, salmon w/crab over risotto, cheese plate  

Also: fizzy water (1x), Old Fashioned

Monday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: beef ramen w/pork rib, Coca-cola (1x)
Dinner: faro salad w/steamed artichoke, aoli

Also, fizzy water (2x)

With one foot in the past.

Summer reading.

The semester is over, and that's weird. No schoolwork ... just work work. Wanted to get out this morning just to enjoy Teenage Kicks. Or as I like to call it, "Sweatin' to the Oldies."

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 39:16
Pace: 9:49
Route: Forest Hill Loop (and around the block)
Temperature: 75°
Climate: sunny & hot
Mood: determined, you know?
Weight: 178 lbs. (-0-)

Also, it is out 22nd wedding anniversary! We will celebrate tomorrow.

Intake
Breakfast: apple, coffee (2x)
Lunch: bean spread on seed bread, cherries, coffee

Dinner: beef nackes (sm), nuggs (2), beer (1x), 2 sm choc chip cookies

Also: ribs (2x), cole slaw, beans

Also, fizzy water (1x), Coca-Cola (1x), beer (1x)

Now, my anles are sore. Both ankles. I think I need a break every two days.

Teenge Kicks 6/26/2021 - The Current

I Kicked a Boy - The Sundays

TVC 15 - David Bowie

Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson

Secret - Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark

Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears

I Got You - Split Enz

Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays

Harborcoat - R.E.M.

Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone

Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys

Don't run. Stop holding your tongue.

Completed my term paper. No idea how good it is. My brain is a mess. I need to take a break before editing and turning the thing in.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:06
Pace: 9:42
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: all right?
Weight: 178 lbs. (-0-)

Thursday Intake
Breakfast: Fried egg on toast, coffee (2x)
Lunch: quinoa slad (1c.)

Snack: apple
Dinner: cheese & chocolate fondue w/bread,veg, fruit & treats

Alcohol: beer (1x), Manhattahn (1x)

Also, fizzy water (2x) 

Last night we resumed our annual tradition of celebrating our kids' scholastic achievement with fondue. God, what a scam. Also, that place has gotten filthy. But we had a great time as a family, and that is what is important.

Friday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Snack: seed bread w/sunbutter (1/2 T)
Lunch: quinoa salad w/dressing & roll

Snack: banana, apple, a few chips & hummus, beer (1x)
Dinner: salad, popcorn, Manhattan (1x)

Also, fizzy water (1x)

What's That Lyric?

Brave - Sara Bareilles

Someone talked me in to try to do it.

I should be writing. I have a paper due Friday. I was going to take a break from running. But the boy asked for a one mile run, so.

Distance: 1.2 miles
Duration: 10:54
Pace: 8:56
Route: Up the street, around the block.
Temperature: 70°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: good
Weight: 178 lbs. (+1.0)

Intake
Breakfast: mixed berry crip w/cream, coffee (2x)
Lunch: ham & cheese sandwich, cold green soup

Treat: chocolate chip cookie (1x)
Dinner: slaw salad w/seeds, cold green soup, beer (1x), wine (3x)

Dessert: sorbet w/fresh strawberries

Also, fizzy water (2x)

What's That Lyric?

Interzone - Joy Division

Burning the ground.

I went to bed last night and thought, I am going to wake up in the middle of the night and not get back to sleep. And sure as hell, that is what happened. Personal issues, work issues, artistic issues, school issues. There was no closing the mout of my mind. So? I woke up at 4:00 AM and got some god damn work done.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 34:34
Pace: 9:36
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 63°
Climate: sunny & cool
Mood: all right
Weight: 177 lbs. (-1.0)

My son asked why I do the "year playlist" thing and I told him several reasons. The primary reason, I told him, was for nostalgia. I cast my mind back into my history and it makes me think and remember, and sometimes it can be creatively stimulating.

Of course, another reason is so that I don't have to think about what it is I am going to listen to. Now that that time of year has passed, I must decide, every run. Will it be for BPM? Or maybe a playlist inspired by a certain song or artist, or an album? And I don't like that. I have enough to think about on a daily basis.

Intake
Breakfast: mixed berry crip w/cream, coffee (2x)
Lunch: tofu, beans & rice, cucumber ribbon salad, sliver of carrot cake
Happy Hour: beer (1x)
Dinner: quinoa salad

Also, fizzy water (3x)

Started out weak. Weak ankles, shins, knees. Finished strong, though. Maybe take a day off tomorrow? Yeah, I really should take the day off tomorrow.

Remember that. Take the day off tomorrow.

What's That Lyric?

Come on, man. You know what that's from.

Save that breath for choir practice.

Didn't log my intake yesterday because it was all over the place. I mean, I ate a million little things. They were a lot of things, a picnic in the park, a party for a high school graduate. The best thing I can say is that I only consumed one alcohol beverage. But there was dessert and chips and on and on.

Okay? So, one day of overdoing it. We must continue to be vigilant, and cautious.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:53
Pace: 9:19
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: overcast & breezy
Mood: not great?
Weight: 178 lbs. (-0-)

Tried to jump to 160 - 164 but it was too fast. I need to mix those up a little. Sprints and cooldowns.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: strawberry/mulberry crisp w/cream

Treat: small piece of carrot cake (because carrots)

Another treat: gummi candies, a lot of them
Dinner: tofu, beans & rice, cucumber ribbon salad, beer (1x)

Homework: Manhattan

Also, fizzy water (2x)

Jesus, a day for sugar. I must resist tomorrow.

155 - 159 bpm Playlist

5 out of 6  - Dessa*

Father's Day Run

I feel more socially disconnected than I did during quarantine.

Distance: 3.15 miles
Duration: 30:47
Pace: 9:45
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 79°
Climate: overcast & HUMID
Mood: good
Weight: 178 lbs. (-1.0)

Father's Day late morning run with the boy. We used the 150-159 bpm list. Good pace. Easy. He is engaged in wrestling conditioning now. Already! And it makes him so glad. We did not allow him to wrestle last year. Yesterday was his two week mark from his second innoculation. He is vaccinated. We are moving forward.

Anyway, yesterday he did runs and sprints. So we took it easy. Maybe tomorrow we will pick it up.

Father runs fast.

Also, I got three new running shirts! 

Parents are children.

Ladies and gentlemen ... 55 Playlists for 55 Years.

2021 Playlist

Strong Feelings - Dry Cleaning

hold yourself. - Tune-Yards

MONTERO (Call Me By Yur Name) - Lil Nas X

Rome - Dessa

Rabbit Hole - Cherry Glazerr

Vertigo - Alice Merton

How Not to Drown - CHVRCHES ft. Robert Smith

Back in Ohio - Lucero

This new "featuring guest vocals by Robert Smith" thing is a wonderful trip.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:21
Pace: 9:28
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: overcast, light rain & humid
Mood: highly anxious
Weight: 179 lbs. (-0-)

Rain on Juneteenth. I cannot keep up with all that is happening right now, family, work, school, relationships, the nation. The amount of Sertraline I take is practically a microdose, but it does the job.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: rich vegetable stir fry w/rice

Treat: Coca-Cola

Snack: sunbutter & jelly sandwich & milk
Dinner: mac & cheese & salad, shandy (1x)

Alcohol: Old Fashioned

Also, fizzy water (2x)

You'd like to be in the race.

Also: This happened.

Rainy and cool. I am a little sleepy this morning. Take a nap -- or a run?

Part of the reason I am tired is because I am running every day. Another because family keeps me up later than necessary. Also, I have not been eating before I run. That last is a thing I should take care of.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:48
Pace: 9:37
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: overcast w/light rain
Mood: squirrely
Weight: 179 lbs. (-1.0)

Intake
Breakfast: Frosted Mini-wheats (serving size!) w/strawberries & banana, coffee (2x)
Lunch: N/A

Treat: Hot chocolate (with shaved chocolate & whipped cream!!!)

Snack: cheese straws
Dinner: vegan cheesesteak, fried cauliflower

Also, fizzy water (2x)

Alcohol: rum & Coke (2x)

We need to talk about Lemonade Mouth.

2011 Playlist

Breakthrough - Lemonade Mouth

Sail - AWOLNATION

Na Na Nothing - Mike Doughty

Ok - Beastie Boys

Blue Tip - The Cars

Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye ft. Kimbra

Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine

Make Some Noise - Beastie Boys

Rolling In the Deep - Adele

Finish strong, Adele.

Always been a shoe made for the city.

A day off yesterday, a cool day. This morning it will heat up again. I was supposed to have a crown replaced this AM, but it's not back from the lab. So, a run it is!

My attitude is so much better now than it was last year. Maybe that's because the president isn't a serial villain and we aren't in the middle of a pandemic.

I mean, we're no longer in the middle... right?

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:30
Pace: 9:30
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: sunny & bright
Mood: good!
Weight: 180 lbs. (-2.5)

What a difference a break makes! Lovely summer run.

Wednesday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x),  fresh fruit & low-fat yogurt
Lunch: baked beans & corn torillas
Dinner: broccoli quiche & salad

Also, fizzy water (1x)

Alcohol: beer (2x)

Thursday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: pesto pasta w/broccoli & cauliflower

Snack: a serving size of almonds & dried cranberries, beer (1x)
Dinner: TBA

Alocohol: Strawberry Smash cocktail (summer!)

Also, fizzy water (2x)

2001 Playlist

Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk (Reprise) - Rufus Wainwright

Beautiful Day - U2

Last Nite - The Strokes

Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim,Mya, Pink

Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box - Radiohead

Breathe - Telepopmusik ft. Angela McCluskey

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk

Hash Pipe - Weezer

We're never gonna survive, unless ...

Summer is here, this is a cool break in the weather. Need to resume upper body exercises. But I am glad to be breathing well.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:30
Pace: 10:09
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 66°
Climate: partly cloudy & cool
Mood: all right
Weight: 182.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Lovely weather, but ugh. My feet are lead. I'm just very tired, not enough good sleep. I should take a day off, a good day off. A day of rest. I know I didn't run over the weekend, but we did spend a lot of Saturday and Sunday outdoors, working in the yard and then having the party..

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), heap of fresh fruit & low-fat yogurt
Lunch: leftover vegan business

Treat: Coca-cola
Dinner: pesto pasta salad with brocolli, cauliflower on a bed of greens

Also, fizzy water (2x)

Take it easy on the Coke, bro.

1991 Playlist

Visions of You - Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart ft. Sinéad O'Connor

Tom's Diner - DNA ft. Suzanne Vega

Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & the Boys ft. Aaron Hall

Jughead - Prince & the New Power Generation

Groovy Train - The Fall

Groove Is in the Heart - Deee-Lite

The Choice is Yours - Black Sheep

Crazy- Seal

God. What an amazing time for music. What a strange time to be a young adult.

She didn't have to run.

Oh, my. Big party last night. Drove my brother to the airport this morning at 4:30 AM. I felt wonky as hell. What a day.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:29
Pace: 10:09
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: light rain & sun
Mood: good
Weight: 183 lbs. (+2.0)

Feeling wobbly. But it was raining at first, and I was like, oh hell. But I went out anyway, and the rain stopped and the sun came out and I am exhaisted and it was delightful.

Saturday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), everything bagle w/cream cheese
Lunch: slice of cheese pizza

Afternoon: beer (2x)
Dinner: Three-cup Tofu and Veggies,Daikon Cakes, Curried Cauliflower Bites, Dango

Evening: beer

1981 Playlist

Pull Up to the Bumper - Grace Jones

Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

MyGirl (Gone, Gone, Gone) - Chilliwack

Stars On 45 - Stars On 45

Primary - The Cure

Girls On Film (Night Version) - Duran Duran

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

Demolition Man - Grace Jones

We need to talk about Stars On 45.

Sunday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), bagel w.cream cheese, scrambled eggs w/tomato & onion & cheese
Lunch: reuben, coca-cola
Dinner: assorted but modest party items, including two savory carb things, a tiny dessert

Alcohol: beer (2x)

Really! Two beers at a six hour party.

Monday Intake
Breakfast: coffee, latte
Lunch: fatayer, baba w/pita

Snack: fruit w/yogurt
Dinner: pasta & faux meat sauce, raw veg w/yogut dip, beer (1x)

Also, lemonade w/fizzy water (2x)

Buddha, is he where it's at?

Moving to the finale, six more year runs before we reach 2021. What should be included?

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:39
Pace: 9:53
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: sunny & humid
Mood: good
Weight: 181 lbs. (-0-)

No. Do not have two cocktails before bed. I do not care if they are White Russians. I do not care if you are watching the finale of Chernobyl.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: baba w/pita, fatayer

Happy Hour: Eliot Ness (1x)
Dinner: cheese pizza, IPA (1x)

Also, fizzy water (2x)

I know James Murphy name checks Gil Scott Heron in Losing My Edge, and I have listened to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised before ... BUT I didn't realize until today that  Losing My Edge is an homage to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.   

1971 Playlist

When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

Won't Get Foopled Again - The Who

Superstar - Murray Head & The Trinidad Singers

Gotta Get Up * - Harry Nilsson

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones

Take Me Home, Country Road * - John Denver

There's a new day dawning.

Man Who Has It All

Day off. Trivia gives me stress, because I'm not doing well. I need to get out and run, before the heat, before the storm.

Also, I seem to have done something to my external keyboard. So that sucks.

Distance: 5.5 miles
Duration: 52:35
Pace: 9:33
Route: Forest Hill/Cain Park Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: sunny & bright
Mood: good!
Weight: 181 lbs. (-1.0)

Here's the thing, I have a drawer full of pants waiting for me when I hit 175.

Wednesday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (1x)
Lunch: salad w/cottage cheese

Snack: apple, carrot
Dinner: beanie weenies

Also, fizzy water (4x), beer (1x)

No! I did not expect to run five miles today. Just ... felt right. And the music was really good.

Thursday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (1x)
Lunch: cool cilantro pesto pasta with carrots & toasted almonds

Snack: "Middle Eastern" pizza
Dinner: beanie weenies

Also, fizzy water (2x), Caucasian (2x)

1992 Playlist

Jimmy James - The Beastie Boys

Kiko and the Lavender Moon - Los Lobos

My Love (You're Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue

High - The Cure

Television the Drug of a Nation - Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

The King of Wishful Thinking - Go West

I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred

Steam - Peter Gabriel

Push Th' Little Daisies - Ween

My Name is Prince - Prince & the New Power Generation

I'd Die Without You* - PM Dawn

Sleeping Sattelite - Tasmin Archer

Rooming House on Venice Beach - Jonathan Richman

You're always on the run now.

We are reading Annie Zileski's addition to the 33 1/3 series, examining the creation and cultural impact of the Duran Duran album Rio. They are a terribly underrated band, and Rio is a seriously good record.

Distance: 3.5 miles
Duration: 32:50
Pace: 9:22
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: sunny & bright
Mood: good
Weight: 182 lbs. (-0-)

Huh. Too many carbs.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: big salad

Afternoon treat: Lemon Hefewizen

Snack: mandarin, tiny cupcake

Dinner: cool cilantro pesto pasta with carrots & toasted almonds

Also, fizzy water (2x), Caucasian (1x)

Every single song on this playlist is a banger. It's interesting, even a song like Save a Prayer, which seems slow, has a good bpm. It isn't a driving rhythm, but it moves. I have been culling favorites from a list just before I go out thinking, if that pops up, it will drag me down. 

1982 Playlist

Save a Prayer - Duran Duran

Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen

It's Nearly Africa - XTC

Radio Silence - Thomas Dolby

Beat It - Michael Jackson

Desperate But Not Serious - Adam Ant

Gloria - Laura Branigan

Let's Pretend We're Married - Prince & the Revolution

Man. Sweaty.

Lost my train of thought here.

Tonight I need to whip up some Caucasians.

School is out. For summer for him, forever for them. My morning obligations are to myself. Writing. Answering trivia questions. And running before the sun comes out.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:58
Pace: 9:20
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: overcast & humid
Mood: anxious
Weight: 181.5 lbs. (+0.5)

Since I started logging what I eat, I have dropped eight pounds. That's eight pounds of snacks. I'm eating fine. I'm not hungry. It's salty snacks and all the water that holds.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (3x)
Lunch: spaghetti with mushroom & faux meat sauce

Snack: Tiny cupcake, beer (1x)
Dinner: mac & cheese (1c.), beer (1x)

Also, fizzy water (2x)

Resisting snacks has become a thing. You had dinner ... and that's it, man. Watched my son eat half a package of Chips Ahoy while we watched The Big Lebowski. Was I tempted? I was not.

Seriously, those things taste like dust. Know what else tastes like dust? 

Running after me. Ha!

2002 Playlist

Heavy Soup - Cornershop

Fit But You Know It - The Streets

Soul Bossanova - Skeewiff

Starry Eyed Surprise - Paul Oakenfold ft. Shifty Shellshock & Crazy Town

Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco

Daft Punk Is Playing at My House - LCD Soundsystem 

The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

The course of a lifetime runs.

Still, I have these occasional pains in the area of my chest. Not my heart, exactly, but sometimes. The doctor asks, does exertion cause pain? And no, it absolutely does not. I mean, it really does not. I run, and I run fast, and I can overheat, or lose my breath, but it's never pain. It never hurts.

It remains to appear to be a side-effect of the medication I take for anxiety. Yes, remains to appear to be so. That is when these pains began. I wonder if leaving the medication will eliminate the pain. Knowing me, I wouldn't notice.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:11
Pace: 9:44
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 82°
Climate: overcast & hot
Mood: okay?
Weight: 181 lbs. (-1.0)

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (1x)
Lunch: spaghetti with mushroom & faux meat sauce
Dinner: ham & cheese sandwich with a pickle, beer (1x)

Also, fizzy water (2x), Manhattan (1x)

1972 Playlist

Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne

Root Down (And Get It) Live - Jimmy Smith

Go All the Way - The Raspberries

I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren

Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon

Bang a Gong (Get It On) - T. Rex

Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All) - The 5th Dimension

I feel like I've been run right through the mill.

Those boots.

We did it, we sent a child through public school. I am exhausted.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:02
Pace: 9:21
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: sunny, hot and AWESOME
Mood: excellent
Weight: 182 lbs. (-2.0)

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x) 
Lunch: shrimp tempura roll

Treat: Chocolate covered Oreo (1)

Snack: apple
Dinner: air fried brussels sprouts, pasta with mushroom & veggie meat tomator sauce, beer (1x)

Also, fizzy water (3x)

Boy chose the decade. I was surprised, he hates contemporary music. But seeing as 2012 was almost a decade ago, it is ancient to him. It was a banger. We went hot and fast. He gets his second dose today, no idea what he will feel like tomorrow.

Now we're running.

2012 Playlist

Youth Without Youth - Metric

Drive By - Train

Starships - Nicki Minaj

We Found Love - Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna

Bubblegum Bitch - MARINA

I'm Shakin' - Jack White

Boozophilia - Low Cut Connie

Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO

Oblivion - Grimes

He says he attracts bugs. He is a bit allergic to mosquito bites, they affect him terribly, big swollen welts. Then there's the spider bite he got in NC once, when he was a child. Traumatic, scary and also made him ill for a shot period. And it just hurt. No, he did not get super powers.

Running through the woods makes him anxious, he just feels the itch all over. I can sympathize with that part. That was me, too, at his age. Skin was an enemy. My acne was much worse at his age than his currently is. Cold comofrt.

Weather permitting.

No, you do not "need to have a drink" to watch Chernobyl.

Distance: 3.1 miles 
Duration: 29:18
Pace: 9:27
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 63°
Climate: overcast & humid
Mood: very good
Weight: 184 lbs. (+1.0)

Tonight our first living child graduates from high school. It was to be last night, but postponed earlier this week due to scheduled heavy weather. Good call. Last night was rainy and cool. Tonight is supposed to be sunny and hot.

And oh, it will be hot, all right.

Thursday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x) 
Lunch: tuna salad sandwich, carrot

Snack: banana, mandarin
Dinner: cheese omelette & salad, beer (1x)

Also, fizzy water (2 x)

I can exhibit self-control. Snacking is often a sign of boredom. Keep your head down and keep reading.

Friday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (3x)
Lunch: sunbutter & preserves sandwich w/grapes & milk
Dinner: bourbon cocktail, calamari, fried chicken sandwich, plantain chips, grazing various other items

(We had dinner out. It was graduation. Shut up.)

2013 Playlist

Right Action - Franz Ferdinand

The Walker - Fitz & The Tantrums

I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons

Little Talks - Monsters & Men

The Wire - HAIM

Work Friend - Britney Spears

Doin' it Right - Daft Punk ft. Panda Bear

Global Running Day (2021)

Yes, today is Global Running Day! Have you run today? Do you plan to run? Take a moment to complete this form and share your achievement!

My Run Today:
Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:39
Pace: 9:53
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate:  overcast & humid
Mood: good
Weight: 183 lbs. (-0-)

Good run, my shins are feeling the daily routine, however. May skip tomorrow. Supposed to storm all day, anyhow.

This is a photo from the (former) National Running Day, ten years ago today. Those are the twins who live next door, I can always remember their ages because they are in between my kids. So, seventeen now.

I love these kids. They are much taller today.

Intake:
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: egg salad on sourdough, chips

Snack: manadarins (2x)
Dinner: grillec cheese & tomato soup, beer (1x)

Dessert: one scoop, chocolate chocolate chip ice cream

Also, fizzy water (1x)

1973 Playlist

Paris 1919 - John Cale

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five - Paul McCartney & Wings

Bad, Bad Leory Brown - Jim Croce

Jungle Lion - Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters

Brother Louie - Stories

Do It Again - Steely Dan

Blockbuster - The Sweet

Free Ride - The Edgar Winter Group

You don't smoke. Don't even want to.

What's up, chumps? Home alone for a couple days. I mean, not alone. Me and the boy.

Now, can we not have a cheeseburger today?

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:38
Pace: 9:33
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 66°
Climate: partly cloudy, nice sun
Mood: all right
Weight: 183 lbs. (-2.0)

Running freer, stronger. Take care, don't get injured.

Also, I quit smoking twenty years ago this month.

Intake:
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: , ramen w/fried egg, mandarin
Dinner: bbq ribs, assorted sides, beer (1x)

Also, fizzy water (3x)

1993 Playlisti

Stay (Faraway, so Close!) - U2

Get Off This - Cracker

Deeper and Deeper - Madonna

Regret - New Order

7 - Prince & The New Power Generation

Tribal Dance - 2 Unlimited

Boom! Shake the Room - Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

My father would have liked this song. Maybe he did.