Saturday Feb 23 |
 | Running warm up/down 24:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Warm up to the barn. Cool down back from mid hill. |
| Running hills 24:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 3x to the top of Bald Hill with Paula and Annie. Paula made it to the top 3 times as well. Nice dry brisk day. |
| Running hills 3:00 [4] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 6x30s hill bounding. |
| Running 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Down hill running. |
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| Saw my first white breasted nuthatch hopping around on the woodpecker trees. They are fun to watch as they seem to prefer hopping straight down the tree headfirst.
Was looking at the picture of the ruby breasted kinglet and noticed that it had a very narrow needle-like beak. I don't think my bird had a beak like that. So it was probably a hutton's vireo. Will have to try and find him again for a positive id. |
Friday Feb 22 |
| Walking 1:50:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Keen Targhee II |
| Walked to work, lunch, and home.
The author of the book I'm currently reading has an over fondness for the word puissance. He uses it all over the place, and not once uses a simpler word like say...strength. The book is the latest in the Thomas Covenant series that I loved when I was a kid, now I think they are just okay. |
Thursday Feb 21 |
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| Took the day off. All this walking is tiring out the knees. I thought the low impact stuff was supposed to be okay. I guess I'm doing too much at once.
We had the orienteering courses at Franklin School again during their Science Night. One of the demonstrations showed that the roots of perennial rye grass glow under black light whereas the annual stuff doesn't. This is all naturally occurring ie no genetic modification.
Someone also brought a Segway for the hallway, which was quite popular although they hardly did anything on it. There is a company downtown that rents them for an hour or two. Paula and I are going to try them sometime. |
Wednesday Feb 20 |
| Running 30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Quick run at Bald Hill very early this morning. Got nailed in the face with a blackberry vine. Ran along that exact trail yesterday and didn't see any vines hanging over the trail. |
| Walking 1:50:00 [1] | |
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| Walk to work, lunch, and home. (3:40)
Tried out one of my new travel pants. Worked out okay, but of course they were too short even though they were supposedly talls. All pants seem to be tailored for penguins or maybe my wearing the pants at my armpits is a little too high.
On the way home, I got to see the lunar eclipse from the start to the full eclipse. Pretty cool. The last time I saw one was in Italy 12 years ago. Paula and I were camping in the Dolomites in the fall. Our tent was the only one in the whole campground. I don't know why I even looked out of the tent that night, because I never do that. But when I did, I saw the red moon. |
Tuesday Feb 19 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Annie at Bald Hill this morning. The sky was overcast, but no rain. |
| Walking 1:50:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Keen Targhee II |
| Walk to work, lunch, and home. Added my Keen shoes to the list. I have decided that I really like Keen shoes. Probably because they are made wider than other brands. When I tried these on in the store they felt like slippers.
They had a show on TV last night called "The Anatomy of a Joke". We caught just enough of it to hear this joke from George Carlin.
A guy in a bar is talking to a woman and asks if she wants to go to his place and do something kinky. She agrees, so they go to his place where they have some straight forward sex. She asks him, "I thought we were going to do something kinky?" He replies, "Oh that...I crapped in your purse."
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Monday Feb 18 |
| Walking 1:50:00 [1] | |
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| Walked to work, lunch, and home. Mostly did it all in one shot, because the computers at work were down in the morning.
Before leaving for work, saw what I decided was a ruby-crowned kinglet right outside the bedroom window. Also could have been a hutton's vireo, but because this bird was tiny I have decided it was a female kinglet. I checked the pussy willow where it landed, but of course all I could see were mourning doves and juncos. |
Sunday Feb 17 |
| Running long 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran at Bald Hill with Paula and Annie. Met King Fergus a big white fluffy Great Pyrenees. Beautiful day! |