Well, goodbye Ron Dayne, hello Edgar Bennett. Another uneventful birthday, which is how they should be.
I did my birthday run. Success. 34 3.4 in 26.09, 7:41* pace. Beat down my Garmin virtual running partner doing my goal of 7:50. I’ve never wheezed like this in my life though *(had to stop twice for cross traffic. I stop, the timer stops). Time for some victory beers.
Well, I’m feeling a little better today. Should be back be “normal” after tonight. Next Rausagefest, no Goldschlager.
Thanks to all those that came to RF1. With the lack of leftovers and beer I trust that you all enjoyed yourself.
The movie screen ended up being pretty awesome when the sun went down. Many of you missed the Dazed and Confused/Big Lebowski double feature. Then again, many of you have seen that double feature with me at my house on other random Saturdays.
An extra thank you to those that don’t know how to follow instructions and brought a present for either D or myself.
I haven’t seen it with my own eyes yet but rumor has it D started
taking multiple steps tonight. Uh-oh.
Goodbye Old Blue, the end of an era. Today we got a new couch. It has none of my imprints. It feels like I’m cheating on my girlfriend (if I knew what that felt like). Fancy pantsy micro-suede. I hope it is stain proof because I’m going to cry myself to sleep on it tonight missing Old Blue.
Tomato season is full throttle right now. I’m going to can my own tomatoes for the first time this year. I processed at least 10 lbs tonight and froze them. Round one of four I’m thinking. Winter will be good this year with some tastes of summer.
Della has been a brat for the last three days. She’s sleeping now but it’s been loud around here lately.
My 200th post. Nothing as exciting as the old ones but a milestone none-the-less.
Finally came across a good movie. It’s a story about culinary arts students in inner city Philly and their inspirational teacher. The reason our school systems stink is because there are no longer teachers like this. It used to be these teachers were the majority and the sheepish ones were the minority. Now if you’re a good teacher you get a documentary made about you. Granted the major reason it is this way is due to the threat of lawsuits at the smallest inspirational teaching cuff. Anyway, a great movie to give you a small glimmer of hope that there are still teachers that are old school. We had plenty of teachers like this… Mader, Robers, Gigstad… I’m thankful.
Today I turned 33. As far a milestone in age I definitely wouldn’t call it that. Aside from a couple gray hairs on the head and more joint pops 33 isn’t all that much different from any of the previous 1o birthdays. I’m not going be to going out and taking 33 shots tonight but the crew can still hang with the best of them. I did take a 3.3 mile jog. I guess this is the one major area of decline since my knees still get sore with extended pavement pounding. I did it in 26:34 which is a 8:02 pace. Not the greatest but I can at least do it without dying. Overall, not bad here at 33. Most important, I got Della as my b-day present. I couldn’t be happier about that. A healthy, happy girl and I hope she stays that way until she’s 33 and beyond.
Please please please people. There is a time and place for brain dead television vegging but things have gotten way out of control. I can’t believe what passes for TV these days. The brain dead, no talent fools that are famous only because we, no you, are the ones telling lack of creation Hollywood execs that this is what passes for entertainment because you watch it. Please don’t do it anymore!
I’ve made my point a thousand times that the world started swirling down the toilet with 24 hour TV. 24 hour sports. 24 hour news. 24 pet shitting. COME ON!!! I will guarantee that if people would get out more and interact on a human level things would get better immediately. Watch TV, it’s fine. Just watch more history and learn about our country and the people that gave their lives to give us what we have. They didn’t sit on a couch all day to make their mark on history… they sat on the couch NEVER! Granted there was no TV for most of them but their down time was spent debating and thinking with friends and FOES! Often the friend WAS the foe, and it was fine! Everyone’s time now is spent watching people on TV that… well I don’t even know what they are. No talent, no brains, with no reason to be acknowledged. I’m starting to relearn all I forgot in history class, please do the same so we can be the awesome country we were in those history books. If not we are going to turn out like the movie Idiocracy. The last 10 years we have taken a drastic turn toward it. My one voice will do nothing, we are on our way to Idiocracy if we all don’t act.
We are no longer a nation of innovators and thinkers. We’re a nation of regurgitaters and followers.
I’ve said I’m back to blogging before but that really didn’t happen. Life has been busy and blogging wasn’t really on my list of priorities the last three years. Well I see a mini light at the end of the tunnel. I’ll have less projects that involve required weekends and nights after work and more time to enjoy some of my many hobbies. I can get back to cooking more, tinkering without care for the final result and most, MOST important, time with my new baby girl. I’ll try to get at least one post in a week to remind me and my baby of the life that I’m living and share the happiness that she will undoubtedly bring me. I’ll start by trying to get a new theme for the blog some time soon. So, hopefully, iRau.com is back! I missed you.
