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Category: Daily Life
These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Gas Prices
I’m at the same gas station I filled up at this morning. It was $3.14 then. When I drove by at 3:45 this afternoon it was still $3.14. Right now, 6:55 pm, three hours later, Sam is filling up her car. Gas is $3.45.
What the fuck?
Tired… Yet Wide Awake
I’m really tired…. Yet wide awake.
It’s kind of annoying. But I guess it’s as good of time as any to update my blog. Little noises seem really loud right now. For example… One of my cats just shook their head. Ear flapping noise was pretty loud. Wind outside… Loud. Neighbor’s tv (across the lot in the other building)…. Loud.
Of course none of those really are loud right now. This makes night number two in a row that I’m not sleeping well. I’m out on the couch so as not to disturb Sam while she’s sleeping. Although Ginger is running around making noise (again that probably only seems loud to me).
Running has been pretty good. I’ve got to get out of the earlier this morning if I want up my mileage. I’ve been getting out the door at 6:45 which only leaves me enough time to run two miles before heading to work. I’d like to make three miles my easy run, but haven’t quite found a good three mile path. I have a two mile path down, and a 3.6 mike one, and I think I have a five miler I can do. Vibrams are holding up strong. No bunion pain. No shin pain. Both good signs.
Oh well. Time to relax and hopefully fall asleep. Cartoons or video games? Or maybe just read til I pass out? My stomach is rumbling loudly. Or is it just loud to me?
Day 2: Charpentier Genes, Pounding Feet, and dreams of coffee
Second day of running. I ran the same route as yesterday, in almost the exact same time. Which I’m very ok with. I think for this week at least I’ll run the 2 mile route and next week I’ll change it up a little.
I’m counting on my “Charpentier Genes” to get me back in shape quickly. Whenever I exercise with friends the joke is that because I have “Charpentier Genes” I’m never more than 2 weeks or so from being in fantastic shape. Also my legs are always stupidly muscular. At least my calves. So figuring in my Charpentier Genes I should be in decent shape by July, and fantastic shape by Delaware. I’ll settle for decent shape. Hell, I’ll settle for 10 pounds lighter.
My Vibrams still leave my bunion pain free during runs. I’m quite enthused by it. It does sometimes leave my feet feeling pounded. But that doesn’t last.
I passed someone drinking coffee in the park this morning. Immediately made my stomach rumble. Smelled good.
So
Morning
I forced myself out of bed today to go running. I have been telling myself for a long while that when I work over the summer I will get up at my normal time and run (Sam gets up then anyways to go to work).
Last week I didn’t run once. This morning I just didn’t feel like it. But I forced myself awake and Sam threw some encouragement my way and I went out for a slow 2 mile run (jog? Run? eh.) It felt good. I’d been contemplating biking to work. However work is now over 20 miles away. And while it is summer and I can dress way down…. I still have to be professional, which may be difficult with no showers there.
The guy who lives above is making toast. It smells really good. I’m kind of surprised, I thought all he was capable of was playing one tune on the guitar (seriously buddy…. its been almost 7 months, and every night you sit down to practice for an hour or two, usually late at night, to play the same lame ass song. try something new)
This weekend Sam and I went to Whipp’s Ledges. It was gorgeous. However while hiking I saw a tree with a hole in it. All I thought of was the Ewok movie where the guy puts his hand in the tree and something tries to bite it off.
Transmorphers
Not surprisingly Transmorphers is pretty bad. It’s like an extremely shitty Go-Bots. And Go-Bots were pretty shitty to begin with.