I was quite unappy with myself after today, and after yesterday too, more specifially unhappy with my behavior, despite the fact that it was wicked hot, and I've head a headache for 36 hours. But no excuses, it was time for penance. So I headed out the door after dinner for another trip up Toby, this time up the long route and back the short way. A good quick pace all the way, trying to break an hour, didn't quite do that, but got just over 4 mph if Phil's distance measuemnt of 4.1 is to be believed. The steep sections are shorter this way so I don't think the pulse got much over 150, but it is still good exercise.

And then back down the direct way, more aggressively down the first steep, rocky part (650' drop in 5:38), then keeping up a good pace the rest of the way home. Pulse at the end about 165. Totally soaked in sweat.

Up via pink and blue, down via pink.

Flash!

Blue Caps Version 2 Even Better!

Crushes FDFs 65-0

The view from the front doesn't show much action....



... but it was at the back of the cap that the real carnage was taking place....



The details --

Blue duct tape applied to the top of a cap. Sticky stuff (Tangle-Trap) applied to the duct tape. And then head out into the heart of FDF country.

A quick look after 5 minutes showed about 10 kills. After 30 minutes the number looked to be about 40. A careful count afterwards put the final toll at 65. And it was a pure shut-out, no bites on me, no landings, just an occasional buzzing noise.

And think about it -- it's hot, it's humid, I'm sweating away, and the FDFs are putting me in a great mood!

I do have a couple moments of concern. One is when it occurs to me that there might be a subsidiary of PETA, PETFDF perhaps, people for the ethical treatment of fucking deer flies, and I might be in deep doo-doo with them over version 2, but a Google search shows nothing to be worried about. And then, thinking back to the days of big protest marches on Washington, when one side would say there were 500,000 people there and the other side would say 20,000, I wondered how I would handle the counting problems as the body count got higher and higher. Sample a square inch and extrapolate from there? But how many square inches of duct tape does it take to cover the top of my head? Get JJ to come up with some software that can extract the data from the photos? Could he, or would he? For now, brute force will have to do.

But what will we do when the count goes up, as it is sure to do when Phil, Mr. Deer Fly Bait himself, comes along?

Which reminds me, version 2 is quite acceptable headgear for meeting one's dean.

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