I run, therefore I am…1081 kilometers farther than I was Dec 31 2007
I just had a discussion with MM. We were watching the so-called “news” which isn’t really news at all. It is just some idiotic babbling about the weather, followed by idiotic babbling about sports, followed by idiotic Christmas commercials. Yup, this is the state of the news media in Canada. [...]
My father fought in World War Two but I don’t know much about it because he never wanted to talk about it. I think he fought in Italy among other places. I know he was a paratrooper, at least for a while. I also know he had a lot of Nazi military [...]
I was downtown Edmonton at Enbridge Pipelines, disconnecting and bagging computers today pending a move and I am lucky to have gotten out of there alive! Everyone on the floor was a zombie, with hatchet marks and other boils and gross festering wounds on their faces just like the human flesh eating dead zombies [...]
My running has improved a whole lot but I am currently “hamstrung” by an unknown knee problem. I have an appointment to have it checked out Nov. 10th. This is to rule out anything serious and maybe to get a physio referral. I am quite sure that it is an IT band [...]
…because I can treat it as the start of my training week, which makes it easier psychologically somehow. I missed karate this morning mostly because I felt too lazy to go. I don’t often miss classes so I don’t feel too guilty. I still have to alter my Gi a bit by [...]
…from a virtual friend I “met” through a running blog. In the interests of her privacy I won’t name her but she has been reading my blog and she wrote me to tell me that I inspired her to take up karate and she had her first class recently.
I initially started this blog for [...]
Before I left Edmonton, it occurred to me that it would be really cool if I were to collect some volcanic ash that originally came from the eruption of Mt. Mazama in Oregon about 7500 years ago. In this eruption the cloud of ash reached all the way to the Edmonton region in Alberta [...]
