these same daffodils pushing through the snow. The snow is gone and
the daffodils are starting to bloom. The trees are starting to bud and
the cherry blossoms should be in full bloom in a couple of weeks.
This Blog is Over
Thursday, March 12
Springtime Around the Corner, Part 2
these same daffodils pushing through the snow. The snow is gone and
the daffodils are starting to bloom. The trees are starting to bud and
the cherry blossoms should be in full bloom in a couple of weeks.
Wednesday, March 11
Orbit's Fabulous Fruitini Gum -- Is That Cat Urine?
I recently stopped at a gas station and went in searching for some cinnamon, sugar-free gum. They didn't have any, so I got some Orbit "Fabulous Fruitini"-flavored gum. I like fruity things. Many people consider me fruity myself, so I thought, "why not?"
Now, I've owned many cats during my life and have emptied many litter pans. That is the first thing I thought of when opening the cellophane on the packaging. It has a strong scent and that scent smelled like cat urine. I popped a stick in my mouth and began to chew. It tasted like cat urine too, or what I imagine cat urine would taste like. Fruity cat urine, but cat urine nonetheless. I don't think I'll buy another pack, but it isn't so horrible that I'm not using this pack. Perhaps this is the first in a long line of cat urine-scented products. I can hardly wait for the candles and bath soaps.
Tuesday, March 10
A Matter of Taste (Or Lack Thereof)
Shane and I went to my Mom's this past weekend and had a nice visit. We noticed a new addition to her guest bedroom, which used to be my bedroom. She bought this lamp at a yardsale at her brother's house. She was astonished to discover my Uncle Jack was selling this lamp that was made from the first deer he killed. I love my Mom dearly, but this is gross.New Yorker Caption Contest #184
Unless you're selling chalk, we don't need any.This is the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest cartoon for this week. My caption for this cartoon is above. Let me know if you come up with a caption too. Click on the link above to enter.
Monday, March 9
100 Facts About Me -- The Complete List!
For the past few months (starting January 5), I've been slowly posting the 100 Facts About Me, 10 Facts at a time and with a few lies thrown in for fun. Interestingly, nobody ever correctly guessed which of the made-up facts were lies. The lie from last week was number 10. I have never gone to a psychic.
The following is the complete list of the 100 facts about me. They are all true. The last 10 (#91-100) are new to the blog. In the future, I will expand on the story behind some of these facts.
1. I was born in New Jersey. (I moved to Maryland as a baby.)
2. My father died when I was 1 year old in a skydiving accident (where he drowned).
3. I've run 3 marathons (so far).
4. I can name all 50 States in alphabetical order in less than 30 seconds. See the video here.
5. I killed a deer with a bow and arrow (mostly the arrow).
6. I was a vegetarian for several years (and I am again since February 1).
7. I successfully performed the Heimlich Maneuver on my dog.
8. I've worked for the Government for more than 24 years in five different jobs.
9. I've been interviewed on live TV as a Government agency spokesperson.
10. Because I'm deathly afraid of public speaking, I took my present Government job to avoid having to do live TV interviews.
11. A mouse ran up the inside of my pants.
12. I have swallowed Clorox bleach.
13. I had to go to the emergency room once after a run-in with a rooster.
14. I've had plastic surgery.
15. As a child, I played with matches and set a forest on fire.
16. I can juggle.
17. Shane moved in with me, moving from Connecticut to the DC area, less than 4 months after our first date.
18. My best friend in high school got amnesia and didn't know me.
19. At one time, I knew all the words to both Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar.
20. I have never smoked marijuana.
21. When I was a supervisor at a previous job, I had one of my employees arrested after I discovered he was exposing himself to little girls.
22. I have been diagnosed with a heart murmur.
23. As a child, I underwent a medical procedure several times that used radium-tipped rods -- the size of knitting needles -- stuck up my nostrils, which were supposed to shrink my adenoids.
24. My neighbor Kirby and I caused my sister's arm to get broken.
25. I am a certified SCUBA diver and have seen sharks in open water while diving.
26. I have shaken the hands of both President Clinton and Vice President Gore
27. I sang tenor in my church choir.
28. I have walked on the Great Wall of China.
29. I've been a member of both a volleyball league and a bowling league.
30. I am a Community College graduate.
31. I've had pet gerbils.
32. I took tap dancing lessons, and danced in front of hundreds of people.
33. I've written a country music song.
34. Shane and I own about 5 acres of land in Maine, where we plan to eventually build a house and retire.
35. I have skied at ski resorts in Maine, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Mexico.
36. The first real concert I ever saw was REO Speedwagon, and I had won the tickets from a radio station. Survivor was the opening act.
37. I ran my first marathon in 1998 to raise money for AIDS charities and received just under $4,000 in contributions.
38. I did an internship during my last semester in college with the Baltimore News American and I wrote two front-page stories. The paper went out of business shortly thereafter.
39. I helped digitize maps used in the first Gulf War.
40. I buried a man in a cemetery while his young son watched.
41. I played the trombone in my elementary school band.
42. I was in my high school senior class play about a train wreck (that was indeed a train wreck).
43. I got a C in Chorus class in high school because, according to my teacher, my voice was changing.
44. On the night of my senior prom, I had a job babysitting.
45. I was very disappointed with the x-ray glasses I sent away for from the back of a comic book.
46. I was not aware of the concept of homosexuality until I was 11 when I saw a TV news story on the subject, which I thought was hilarious.
47. I've taught classes at my church's vacation bible school.
48. I had to go to the emergency room once with what I thought a an appendicitis attack, but it turned out to be kidney stones.
49. I'm a grocery checker school graduate.
50. I lettered in tennis at college.
51. My little finger on my right hand is shorter than my other pinky, and it has hair growing on the palm side (feel free to throw up).
52. I met Shane online.
53. I had the mumps.
54. I've sold seeds door-to-door.
55. I have college credit in Bowling.
56. A former babysitter of mine got a bit of a crush on me when I became of age, but while I was still living at home with my mother. She threw pebbles at my bedroom window so I'd meet her in the backyard late one night. It didn't really work out for her.
57. Shane and I have traveled to the Union of Myanmar (Burma).
58. While in elementary school, I had to go to a speech therapist to help correct my lisp.
59. I've taught a class in candlemaking.
60. I bite my nails.
61. My favorite ice cream flavor is Baskin-Robbins German Chocolate Cake.
62. I once owned a dark green Mazda Miata. Someone crashed into the back of it one day when I was stopped.
63. At one time, I had more than $14,000 in credit card debt. I now pay off my full balance each month.
64. I currently do not own a car. Our Honda CRV is owned by Shane.
65. At work, I have an interior office with no windows. However, I do have a TV.
66. I once stabbed myself in the leg with a hunting arrow.
67. I'm currently 20 years older than the age my father lived to be.
68. I used to have two cats -- one named Lucy and and the other named Ethel.
69. The first major I declared in college was Accounting.
70. I was in the 4-H. My projects included photography and dog obedience.
71. My best friend in school from the 7th through the 9th grade moved away and I have never seen him or had contact with him since.
72. I get 208 hours of vacation time each year -- about 5 weeks and 1 day -- and I get every other Friday off (because I work 9 hour days).
73. When I talk to someone I don't know on the phone, they often assume I'm a woman.
74. I have been complimented on my blue eyes.
75. I once stood in line to get the autograph of Grandpa Jones, star of TV's Hee Haw.
76. Our rowhouse in DC is more than 100 years old. It was built in 1905.
77. The first show I ever saw on Broadway was The Magic Show, which featured the magic of Doug Henning and was written by Stephen Schwartz, who later wrote Wicked, which I also saw.
78. The last show I saw on Broadway, as of this date, was a play called August: Osage County.
79. My minimum retirement age is 56, which means I can retire from my job and draw a pension starting August 3, 2017 -- in less than 8 years and 6 months.
80. I have dated someone from Africa.
81. I received many severe sunburns as a child.
82. As a child, my brother had to take me inside the house when we were camping in our backyard because I was upset that the moon was falling.
83. I sold rocks door to door.
84. I once gave my mother the following hint about a gift all her children, including me, had gone together to buy her: "You cook toast in it."
85. I have gone white water rafting on class 5 rapids in West Virginia.
86. I did not fly on a commercial airline until after I graduated from college and had to go on a business trip while working for the Government.
87. As of this date, I have been to 30 States, though Shane doesn't think I should count Texas since I was only at the airport. I think if you went to the bathroom in a State, it should count.
88. Shane's and my first date was at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
89. My best time on BrainTuner is 13.0069 seconds. It is a game on the iPhone that the object is to indicate whether 20 math equations are true or false. My goal in life now is to get a time under 13 seconds.
90. I've worked in construction, building houses and putting shingles on roofs. I helped build the house my brother lives in.
91. I have triplet nieces. Shane and I took them (and their mother who is my sister) to London, Paris, and Amsterdam for the triplets' high school graduation present. They are currently attending their first year of college.
92. I am quite pee shy. I have to do math problems in my head to urinate in a public restroom when others are around.
93. I love Shane, even though he does not read my blog.
94. Since the day I met Shane, I have been monogomous.
95. I took piano lessons for several years as a teenager. We now own a player piano.
96. I was closeted until I was 34 years old. I came out to my mother by handing her a letter and watching her read it. She said she was surprised, but wanted me to be happy.
97. I have been to a nude beach.
98. On July 20, 1969, I got into trouble just prior to the televised broadcast of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. I was sent to my room and didn't get to watch it.
99. I have secrets that I'm not telling here.
100. Though there was a time I never thought it was going to be possible, I'm happy with my life.
The following is the complete list of the 100 facts about me. They are all true. The last 10 (#91-100) are new to the blog. In the future, I will expand on the story behind some of these facts.
1. I was born in New Jersey. (I moved to Maryland as a baby.)
2. My father died when I was 1 year old in a skydiving accident (where he drowned).
3. I've run 3 marathons (so far).
4. I can name all 50 States in alphabetical order in less than 30 seconds. See the video here.
5. I killed a deer with a bow and arrow (mostly the arrow).
6. I was a vegetarian for several years (and I am again since February 1).
7. I successfully performed the Heimlich Maneuver on my dog.
8. I've worked for the Government for more than 24 years in five different jobs.
9. I've been interviewed on live TV as a Government agency spokesperson.
10. Because I'm deathly afraid of public speaking, I took my present Government job to avoid having to do live TV interviews.
11. A mouse ran up the inside of my pants.
12. I have swallowed Clorox bleach.
13. I had to go to the emergency room once after a run-in with a rooster.
14. I've had plastic surgery.
15. As a child, I played with matches and set a forest on fire.
16. I can juggle.
17. Shane moved in with me, moving from Connecticut to the DC area, less than 4 months after our first date.
18. My best friend in high school got amnesia and didn't know me.
19. At one time, I knew all the words to both Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar.
20. I have never smoked marijuana.
21. When I was a supervisor at a previous job, I had one of my employees arrested after I discovered he was exposing himself to little girls.
22. I have been diagnosed with a heart murmur.
23. As a child, I underwent a medical procedure several times that used radium-tipped rods -- the size of knitting needles -- stuck up my nostrils, which were supposed to shrink my adenoids.
24. My neighbor Kirby and I caused my sister's arm to get broken.
25. I am a certified SCUBA diver and have seen sharks in open water while diving.
26. I have shaken the hands of both President Clinton and Vice President Gore
27. I sang tenor in my church choir.
28. I have walked on the Great Wall of China.
29. I've been a member of both a volleyball league and a bowling league.
30. I am a Community College graduate.
31. I've had pet gerbils.
32. I took tap dancing lessons, and danced in front of hundreds of people.
33. I've written a country music song.
34. Shane and I own about 5 acres of land in Maine, where we plan to eventually build a house and retire.
35. I have skied at ski resorts in Maine, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Mexico.
36. The first real concert I ever saw was REO Speedwagon, and I had won the tickets from a radio station. Survivor was the opening act.
37. I ran my first marathon in 1998 to raise money for AIDS charities and received just under $4,000 in contributions.
38. I did an internship during my last semester in college with the Baltimore News American and I wrote two front-page stories. The paper went out of business shortly thereafter.
39. I helped digitize maps used in the first Gulf War.
40. I buried a man in a cemetery while his young son watched.
41. I played the trombone in my elementary school band.
42. I was in my high school senior class play about a train wreck (that was indeed a train wreck).
43. I got a C in Chorus class in high school because, according to my teacher, my voice was changing.
44. On the night of my senior prom, I had a job babysitting.
45. I was very disappointed with the x-ray glasses I sent away for from the back of a comic book.
46. I was not aware of the concept of homosexuality until I was 11 when I saw a TV news story on the subject, which I thought was hilarious.
47. I've taught classes at my church's vacation bible school.
48. I had to go to the emergency room once with what I thought a an appendicitis attack, but it turned out to be kidney stones.
49. I'm a grocery checker school graduate.
50. I lettered in tennis at college.
51. My little finger on my right hand is shorter than my other pinky, and it has hair growing on the palm side (feel free to throw up).
52. I met Shane online.
53. I had the mumps.
54. I've sold seeds door-to-door.
55. I have college credit in Bowling.
56. A former babysitter of mine got a bit of a crush on me when I became of age, but while I was still living at home with my mother. She threw pebbles at my bedroom window so I'd meet her in the backyard late one night. It didn't really work out for her.
57. Shane and I have traveled to the Union of Myanmar (Burma).
58. While in elementary school, I had to go to a speech therapist to help correct my lisp.
59. I've taught a class in candlemaking.
60. I bite my nails.
61. My favorite ice cream flavor is Baskin-Robbins German Chocolate Cake.
62. I once owned a dark green Mazda Miata. Someone crashed into the back of it one day when I was stopped.
63. At one time, I had more than $14,000 in credit card debt. I now pay off my full balance each month.
64. I currently do not own a car. Our Honda CRV is owned by Shane.
65. At work, I have an interior office with no windows. However, I do have a TV.
66. I once stabbed myself in the leg with a hunting arrow.
67. I'm currently 20 years older than the age my father lived to be.
68. I used to have two cats -- one named Lucy and and the other named Ethel.
69. The first major I declared in college was Accounting.
70. I was in the 4-H. My projects included photography and dog obedience.
71. My best friend in school from the 7th through the 9th grade moved away and I have never seen him or had contact with him since.
72. I get 208 hours of vacation time each year -- about 5 weeks and 1 day -- and I get every other Friday off (because I work 9 hour days).
73. When I talk to someone I don't know on the phone, they often assume I'm a woman.
74. I have been complimented on my blue eyes.
75. I once stood in line to get the autograph of Grandpa Jones, star of TV's Hee Haw.
76. Our rowhouse in DC is more than 100 years old. It was built in 1905.
77. The first show I ever saw on Broadway was The Magic Show, which featured the magic of Doug Henning and was written by Stephen Schwartz, who later wrote Wicked, which I also saw.
78. The last show I saw on Broadway, as of this date, was a play called August: Osage County.
79. My minimum retirement age is 56, which means I can retire from my job and draw a pension starting August 3, 2017 -- in less than 8 years and 6 months.
80. I have dated someone from Africa.
81. I received many severe sunburns as a child.
82. As a child, my brother had to take me inside the house when we were camping in our backyard because I was upset that the moon was falling.
83. I sold rocks door to door.
84. I once gave my mother the following hint about a gift all her children, including me, had gone together to buy her: "You cook toast in it."
85. I have gone white water rafting on class 5 rapids in West Virginia.
86. I did not fly on a commercial airline until after I graduated from college and had to go on a business trip while working for the Government.
87. As of this date, I have been to 30 States, though Shane doesn't think I should count Texas since I was only at the airport. I think if you went to the bathroom in a State, it should count.
88. Shane's and my first date was at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
89. My best time on BrainTuner is 13.0069 seconds. It is a game on the iPhone that the object is to indicate whether 20 math equations are true or false. My goal in life now is to get a time under 13 seconds.
90. I've worked in construction, building houses and putting shingles on roofs. I helped build the house my brother lives in.
91. I have triplet nieces. Shane and I took them (and their mother who is my sister) to London, Paris, and Amsterdam for the triplets' high school graduation present. They are currently attending their first year of college.
92. I am quite pee shy. I have to do math problems in my head to urinate in a public restroom when others are around.
93. I love Shane, even though he does not read my blog.
94. Since the day I met Shane, I have been monogomous.
95. I took piano lessons for several years as a teenager. We now own a player piano.
96. I was closeted until I was 34 years old. I came out to my mother by handing her a letter and watching her read it. She said she was surprised, but wanted me to be happy.
97. I have been to a nude beach.
98. On July 20, 1969, I got into trouble just prior to the televised broadcast of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. I was sent to my room and didn't get to watch it.
99. I have secrets that I'm not telling here.
100. Though there was a time I never thought it was going to be possible, I'm happy with my life.
Sunday, March 8
Style Invitational Week 807 -- Pretty Graphic Expressions
This week's Washington Post Style Invitational is based on Craig Damrauer's Web site http://morenewmath.com/, which is a compilation of thoughts expressed in the form of a mathematical equation, as in the ones by Craig in Bob Staake's cartoon. This week: Express some insight as an equation or other mathematical expression. For more information, click on the Post link above to go to the contest.
Saturday, March 7
100 Facts About Me -- Naming All 50 States in Under 30 Seconds
In the first list I posted of the 100 Facts About Me, I said that I could name all 50 States in alphabetical order in under 30 seconds. This video is the proof. On Monday, I'm posting the complete list of the 100 Facts. Try to look interested.
Friday, March 6
Didn't This Guy See The Crying Game?
From the Washington Blade:----------------------------
Police were called Feb. 19 at 2 a.m. to the 4100 block of 14th Street, N.W., to respond to a reported prostitution-related complaint. A man told police that he had visited “a known house of prostitution, where he engaged in consensual sex acts with a member of the transgender community” in exchange for money. The man told police that when he learned the person was “a biological male,” he demanded his money back. When the “service provider” refused, the man called police. No report was taken, but members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Prostitution Enforcement Unit were to investigate.
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He called the police?
Prop 8 Hearing -- Prospects Looking Bleak
Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times -- taken outside of the Prop 8 hearing held on Thursday.Several ardent -- and outnumbered -- opponents of same-sex marriage held signs with messages like "Gay = Pervert" and "A Moral Wrong Can't be a Civil Right."
Indications are that Prop 8 will succeed and the civil rights of gay married couples in California will go away. I find this trend of backwards progress very depressing. There are some victories (Connecticut for example), but there are many more defeats.
As a community, gay men and women need to organize and step up the protests. I'm ashamed at how little I have done myself. This is our lives and we can not let this happen. We need to fight this tooth and nail. I've always been the one that thought our rights would come in time, but I'm starting to wonder. There is an amazing amount of disgust aimed at gay people. We have to say enough and not allow it to happen.
Thursday, March 5
Help Mitchell Get the Best Job in the World -- VOTE!
You could help Mitchell get the Best Job in the World -- working for Tourism Queensland (Australia) as a blogger on the Great Barrier Reef.
In addition to the 10 candidates selected by Tourism Queensland, they're giving the world a chance to have its say. The most popular short-listed candidate will receive a Wild Card to interview for the Best Job in the World. So, vote for Mitchell. You can vote once every 24 hours until March 24. He is currently third out of 50 candidates.
To vote and for more information, go to
http://www.islandreefjob.com/#/most-votes
Springtime Around the Corner
As I was walking to the subway this morning, I noticed these daffodils
starting to emerge through this week's snow. I then looked up the
weather in DC on my iPhone and saw that it is supposed to get up in
the 70s this weekend. I am looking forward to running outside again!
Wednesday, March 4
Obama Nominates Openly Gay Man to Be OPM Director
The article below is from http://www.govexec.com/. The full artilce can be found here.
by Alyssa Rosenberg arosenberg@govexec.com March 3, 2009
President Obama on Tuesday nominated John Berry, currently the director of the National Zoo, to lead the Office of Personnel Management.
"From turning around the National Zoo to fostering a more productive work environment at the Department of the Interior, John Berry has a tremendous record of effective management in key public service roles," Obama said. "I'm confident that he will provide that same leadership at OPM to help ensure that government works for the American people the way it should."
Berry has a long history in federal workforce and management issues. He served as legislative director to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., for 10 years.
Berry is also known as an advocate for gay and lesbian federal employees. According to the Human Rights Campaign, if confirmed, he will be the highest-ranking openly gay official to serve in the executive branch in any administration.
During his time at Interior, Berry worked to create a grievance procedure for employees who experience discrimination because of their sexual orientation, expand relocation benefits and counseling services to the domestic partners of employees, establish a liaison to gay and lesbian workers, and eliminate discriminatory provisions of the National Park Service's law enforcement standards -- including a ban on security clearances for gay and lesbian employees.
Under President Bush, OPM opposed allowing the domestic partners of federal employees to receive health and retirement benefits available to heterosexual married couples. OPM argued in a 2008 congressional hearing that extending partner benefits was too risky because gay and lesbian federal employees might commit fraud to get them.
Leonard Hirsch, international liaison at the Smithsonian Institution and president of Federal GLOBE, which represents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender government employees, said in a January interview with Government Executive that he thought Berry would reverse OPM's benefits policy.
My New Apple Product -- Running With Blue Shuffle
Yesterday, my friend Archer, from Archer Radio, bought a brand new 24" iMac with the 3.06 GHz processor, 4 gig of ram, and a 1 TB hard drive (TB? Does that mean it has a cough?). Not to be outdone, I also purchased an Apple product yesterday too. Don't be jealous Archer. I bought my fourth iPod Shuffle! In case anyone is keeping score, I lost one of the previous three and the other two got ruined in the washer. This is my first blue one and my first 1 gig. I had always purshased the 2 gigs previously, but since it will just get lost or ruined in the wash soon, I thought the smaller one would be fine.
I was thinking that I could live without a Shuffle and just use my iPhone for a iPod. I quickly learned that wasn't such a good idea. I was running on the treadmill yesterday, listening to my running songs, when my arm got tangled in the headphone and I knocked my iPhone off the top of the treadmill, down onto the belt and then it got thrown to the floor. I jumped off the treadmill and was relieved to find that it still worked. However, when I started running again, the music on the iPhone would suddenly stop and start. It seems to be working OK now, but that was freaking me out. Anyway, I thought running with the iPhone wasn't such a good idea, and went out and got another Shuffle.
My Band's Album Cover
I'm blatantly stealing this from QCast Connection's blog, Digital Meatloaf, who stole it from Idol Eyes and a Dormy, who in turn stole it from Bobby's Blog, who stole it from god knows, but here goes:
What would your own album look like if you were in a band?
Follow the directions below and find out…Here are the rules:
1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations”or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.
OK... so I cheated a little. I did find these randomly, but not on my first try -- more like my fourth or fifth. So sue me. Interestingly, Homeosis is the transformation of one body part into another. I thought it sounded like a gay Christian rock group. The album title sounds a bit pedophilia-like, especially when paired with that photo. Yuck.
Tuesday, March 3
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #183
This is the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest cartoon for this week. My caption for this cartoon is below:
"That's a relief. For a second, I thought that was my husband's car."
Let me know if you come up with a caption too. Click on the link above to enter.
Monday, March 2
Don't Treadmill on Me
This is me on the treadmill at the gym at work -- sorry for the blurriness; it isn't easy taking a photo of yourself while running on a treadmill. It has been more than 2 weeks since I've been on the contraption -- before Valentine's Day. I got a cold and just didn't have the energy to go to the gym. Then I was at that class last week, which resulted in me eating sweets galore. How can I not eat free desserts? This past weekend, we had Archer and the Boyfriend over and out to eat. Believe me, there was lots of food and wine consumed. Today was the first day back at the gym.
I weighed myself for the first time in several weeks. It wasn't as bad as I feared. I had only gained 3 pounds -- I weighed in at 183 pounds.
I have been eating so badly, that I decided that I should fast today. All I've had all day is water. I've stuck to the vegetarianism throughout the month of February. The only meat I had was salmon when I went out to a restaurant on two occasions.
Starting today, I'm cutting out the sweets (no more of the apple pie) and I'm going to try to keep up the exercise. My goal is to get under 175 by the end of March. I want to run the Delaware Marathon on May 17, which is coming up fast. Considering I was barely able to do 3 miles today, I'm going to have to start getting serious. I just signed up to run the 5th Annual Scope It Out 5K, which takes place in DC on Sunday, March 29, and raises money for the Colon Cancer Awareness Foundation. I ran this race last year also.
I weighed myself for the first time in several weeks. It wasn't as bad as I feared. I had only gained 3 pounds -- I weighed in at 183 pounds.
I have been eating so badly, that I decided that I should fast today. All I've had all day is water. I've stuck to the vegetarianism throughout the month of February. The only meat I had was salmon when I went out to a restaurant on two occasions.
Starting today, I'm cutting out the sweets (no more of the apple pie) and I'm going to try to keep up the exercise. My goal is to get under 175 by the end of March. I want to run the Delaware Marathon on May 17, which is coming up fast. Considering I was barely able to do 3 miles today, I'm going to have to start getting serious. I just signed up to run the 5th Annual Scope It Out 5K, which takes place in DC on Sunday, March 29, and raises money for the Colon Cancer Awareness Foundation. I ran this race last year also.
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
The following was written on www.wired.com Geekdad blog by Russ Neumeier: It was March 2nd, 1904 that Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Today we pay tribute to Dr. Seuss' 105th birthday.
While most commonly known for his children's books (he wrote over 60 of them), “Dr.” Seuss was both the editor-in-chief of the college newspaper and also drew more than 400 political cartoons in two years for a New York daily newspaper. It was as a college student at Dartmouth that he started signing his work “Seuss.” Once he graduated, he started signing his work as “Dr. Seuss” when submitting it to a humor magazine. After marrying, he continued to write humor and illustrate. When World War II started, he began his political cartooning. Eventually he designed and illustrated posters to support the war effort, and joined the U.S. Army where he was the leader of the animation department.
Still, it was his children's books that have helped beginning readers and have been enjoyed by families for several generations.
The video is from the Saturday Night Live. It was a tribute by Rev. Jesse Jackson done shortly after Dr. Seuss' death in 1991. Sorry for the poor video quality. Let me know if you find it elsewhere and I will replace it.
Out My Window
inches. The Government is on a 2 hour delay. Our snow shovel is in
storage, so we have to sweep our walk. It is suppose to snow for a
few more hours and end by noon. We haven't had a decent snow in
several years.
100 Facts About Me -- Week 9
This is yet another installment of the 100 Facts about me. Each week (until the list totals 100) I post 11 items, 10 of which are true and one that is not. Try and guess which fact is not true. Next Monday, I'll disclose which one of the items from this week was false. We're coming down to the wire, as this is the next to last list. Next Monday will be the last 10 items, and I will post the entire list of 100 Facts.
The false item from last week was again #7. I can't type 80 words a minute. I wish I could. Though I took a typing class in high school (I was one of about three boys in my typing class), I never got that speedy.
Here's the ninth list of 10 facts and one non-fact:
1. I received many severe sunburns as a child.
2. As a child, my brother had to take me inside the house when we were camping in our backyard because I was upset that the moon was falling.
3. I sold rocks door to door.
4. I once gave my mother the following hint about a gift all her children, including me, had gone together to buy her: "You cook toast in it."
5. I have gone white water rafting on class 5 rapids in West Virginia.
6. I did not fly on a commercial airline until after I graduated from college and had to go on a business trip while working for the Government.
7. As of this date, I have been to 30 States, though Shane doesn't think I should count Texas since I was only at the airport. I think if you went to the bathroom in a State, it should count.
8. Shane's and my first date was at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
9. My best time on BrainTuner is 13.0069 seconds. It is a game on the iPhone that the object is to indicate whether 20 math equations are true or false. My goal in life now is to get a time under 13 seconds.
10. A psychic once told me that I would have a large family, but die before I was 40. I was already over 40 at the time.
11. I've worked in construction, building houses and putting shingles on roofs. I helped build the house my brother lives in.
The false item from last week was again #7. I can't type 80 words a minute. I wish I could. Though I took a typing class in high school (I was one of about three boys in my typing class), I never got that speedy.
Here's the ninth list of 10 facts and one non-fact:
1. I received many severe sunburns as a child.
2. As a child, my brother had to take me inside the house when we were camping in our backyard because I was upset that the moon was falling.
3. I sold rocks door to door.
4. I once gave my mother the following hint about a gift all her children, including me, had gone together to buy her: "You cook toast in it."
5. I have gone white water rafting on class 5 rapids in West Virginia.
6. I did not fly on a commercial airline until after I graduated from college and had to go on a business trip while working for the Government.
7. As of this date, I have been to 30 States, though Shane doesn't think I should count Texas since I was only at the airport. I think if you went to the bathroom in a State, it should count.
8. Shane's and my first date was at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
9. My best time on BrainTuner is 13.0069 seconds. It is a game on the iPhone that the object is to indicate whether 20 math equations are true or false. My goal in life now is to get a time under 13 seconds.
10. A psychic once told me that I would have a large family, but die before I was 40. I was already over 40 at the time.
11. I've worked in construction, building houses and putting shingles on roofs. I helped build the house my brother lives in.
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