French Fires

The heat is owhn!  A couple of my last runs outside were mid day and wow that was tough.  It becomes a mental workout.  And I'm not sure if it's just me not being in FL for a while, but the nats seem much denser than I remember. Get the hell out of my eyes man!

My runs at Timberlake have been postponed due to wildfires on Eglin's reservation.  It was really bad a few days ago, with the town engulfed in smoke and ashes falling out of the sky.  My pool cleaning committee members were none to happy about that.

The French Open is owhn!!  It's shaping up to be a good tournament too.  Hopefully I wont lose too much sleep trying to catch stuff live.

A recent pic, car window reflection, bam instant layer!

Perplexity Brothel

The Prometheus spoiler train is out of control.  The film has already been screened by the French critics and comes out any hour in some parts of Europe. Got another week for us in the States.  I'm actually managing to stay away from the majority of the hardcore details.  I don't know how long that will last though.  I get the feeling that the movie is not going to be as good as I want it to be, but I still have hope.

Anyway, the ride is almost over. I've been absorbed on the internet daily with all things regarding this movie.  Some of the fan art on Prometheusnews.net is just insane and inspiring. Their photoshop skills are pretty good too.  They have a thread that's purely for making fun of stuff with photoshop, called a meme thread. From a fan perspective, it's hilarious.  And if that wasn't enough, one of the original painting artists, I believe from the first Alien movie is showing off all these amazing pics of the set and crew building stuff and having crazy times with porn actresses even (in a totally good way!) Yah I don't think I can expand on that though. But the backstory is very cool.


However, even if Prometheus is a huge turd bomb of a movie, I can say that it was totally worth the journey. I never would've read the two scripts from Jon Spaihts, Shadow 19 and Passengers. I read Passengers yesterday and WOW!  That was such an awesome story. I don't know how that is not a movie yet.  One of you who follows this blog needs to read it so I can talk to you about it.  If you need a copy, just email me.  It's just awesome.

And the title of this post is what was translated from a French review about Prometheus.  You have to admit, that's damn funny.

Heatheus

I keep meaning to post and I just don't. Sometimes things happen in the day and I say that is excellent, I will blog about that. Then later I get busy, tired, or think meh it's not so interesting now. You know how this works.

Anyway, home renov is kinda slowed down last couple of weeks.  Which has been good really. Someday I'll have a master bedroom closet like no other though!  It will be glorious.

Another dentist visit for myself and Asa gets 5 stars and high fives. The receptionist told me I look like Heath Ledger.....seriously.....hahahahahaha! I love it!

I got a new phone finally.  It's a smart phone even. So now you can send me pictures and my phone won't explode trying to download them and I can actually see them.  I don't mind texting now either.  I mean it's basically a handheld computer that happens to be a phone too right.  So far though for just call clarity and comfort, it's hard to beat the old flipper. It's a trade off for the better I spose. I also have to say Verizon is kicking the shit out of AT&Ts reception so far.

Game of Thrones is almost over! Ughhhh I could watch this show all day.  Sometimes I wish it was like my experience with Battlestar Galactica. I could just rent and watch episode after episode for 3 seasons and it was glorious.   Waiting a year for another season is painful. But it's good stuff!

Everyday some new piece of information for Prometheus seems to get online.  It's just one spoiler after another.  Soundtrack track listing, Super secret twitter girl reports, low profile actor interviews. I can't stop myself it seems.  It doesn't really matter to me though. I read Hunger Games and saw the movie the next day practically and it was great.  Some new and seemingly valid information has popped up today that suggests Prometheus will be a solid film rather than a disaster.  I'll continue to keep my expectations in check.

I found a baby snake in my florida room. The snakes love me it seems!  I don't think he lived long though. I did my best to save him, but he did not look well.

Cork Snackeez

Yesterday we were on our way to Lowe's to buy a pull bar.  All the DIY stuff on laying down flooring says you'll need a taping block. This block allows you to hammer the flooring slats in a safe way to make the seams push up with no gaps. No one tells you to get a pull bar.  Which is just ridiculous since the tapping block is complete shit.  The pull bar OWNS!

And with that the cork flooring in the master closet is complete. Still a pretty good pain in the ass.

Anyway, on our way to Lowe's we almost saw a dog get runover at a busy intersection near our house.  She was a little fat white jack russel.  So we pulled over and put the dog in the truck.  We drove around a bit to see if we could figure out where the dog came from. She was fat and old, so it couldn't have been far.  I talked to some people on a porch and they suggested I go two houses down.  I did and I think I just scared these people as they didn't want to come to their door. Guess it's the Wolverine thing eh.

So Liz and I took the dog to my parents house as they agreed to keep her in the garage until Monday when Animal Control was open. Well, today Liz was going up to work and saw a house with a sign and sure enough, this was the dog's house.

So I returned Poo Bear! to their owners.  And older couple named Larry and Carolyn.  They just moved into this house a couple weeks ago. Interestingly, he's from LA and her from south FL. Since Larry's wife passed, these two had a teenage love connection that got..reconnected! They had two dachsunds and a maltese looking dog with cancer. All in all a happy re-union.

I know she was going mad the night before since it was a really bad storm. I know if my dog was lost I would be freaking out!  They were so nice and Poo Bear was such a cute little fattie sausage.  It was a good thing all around.

Later in the night, I went out to make sure my pool was going to shut off and what slithered right in front of me into the pool.  A 3 foot or so snake! Ahhh what is up with the snakes lately.  The damn thing swam out and then turned around and came right back at me.  I ran inside to grab a light. Where my 500 lumen light when I need it!

The snake seemed to be stuck in the pool but he kept following me or the light it seemed like at some moments.  Google images for water snake and cotton mouth/moccasin ensued.  Can I really get close enough to see the shape of it's constantly moving head?  Kinda brown, maybe red, yellow irregular bands.  We really thought it was a Moccasin at first which is not a good thing.  Liz's sister and husband are the closest wild animal experts we know so a few snaps from the phone and a few texts later suggested that it was perhaps a corn/rat snake.  A better thing.  They're supposed to be good climbers though.  I just threw some pool noodles on the sides so he had something to slither up on.  It came out of the pool at one point seeming to rest, but then went back in!

Hopefully he'll be gone by the morning.  To think we had thought about taking a late night dip. Yeeesh!

Blue Steel

Prometheusnews.net posted this up today.

Yowza!

Lit_l ThunDa_r

My moutain bike excursion was cut very short today. Wasn't even out 15 minutes and some harsh thunder in the distance. Stuff just pops out of nowhere in FL! So home I went to run on the treadmill. Blaaaaah. It's been like 6 weeks since I've run on the treaddy. Weird!

Went to Asa's field day outing today. Course the rain cut that short too.  So I ate lunch with her and her friends.  I still get a little uncomfortable around so many small kids.  They just want to eat me I think.  Although two different boys said I looked just like Wolverine! Yeeeah!!  Maybe I should go to Dragoncon.

Still no cellphone.  I think I'm done debating though. This weekend I'm fairly certain I will obtain one.  Who wants to guess what I will choose?!!

I came across a video on youtube for a band called Dye. The song is called Fantasy and the video is done in anime style.  It's basically 4 teens sneaking into a public pool for some typical teen fun but it quickly turns into some else.  You can search it on youtube if you like. I can't seem to get the song out of my head either. I might as well download it.

Timberrrrr

I dressed up for a run and then laid down in my parents bed. I sorta dozed off for prolly 15 minutes. I suddenly felt exhausted driving over there and thought, well this run might not be happening. I popped up afterwards and didn't feel sleepy, so I said I might as well run.

I finally, after practically a year, got out to the TimberLake Rec area for a run.  I haven't run a trail since Mt. Charleston last year. It was so nice to have no flat roads, only twisty paths and some hills.  Yes, fun hills too,cuz they don't last 2 miles and are at -17 feet sea level rather than 9000 feet above!

My stride quickly shortened up and I was having a blast running down the oak leaves and root obstacles.  I ran past a 3 foot snake of some kind. It slithered away from me, thank goodness.  Prolly just a common variety black snake, but since I rarely see snakes in the wild, I was like ahhhh!  The worst thing is spiders though.  I hate getting a face full of web.  Then the other webs are constantly getting on my arms and legs.  Makes me itchy.

Swarms of little nats, you just have to make sure to exhale.  I did get a nice branch across the face and one of those thorny vines reminded me in a most unpleasant way that I have road rash over my right leg. Damn thing coiled around me and then pulled like I was a yoyo. Ughhh! And wow it was hot as **** today.  Had I not been in the shade of trees I would've been miserable.

Can't wait to get back out there and do a trail bike then run!

Oh and on my way home I saw a guy, a very fit young dude, running down the sidewalk with I'd guess about a 25 pound kettlebell in one hand.  Is it me or does that not sound like a good idea. Resistance training fine, but don't imbalance yourself right? Maybe thats why he was very fit.  

Repair Underway

Well, I awoke this morning and all was well.  My left ankle def took some sorta hit as its sore, but overall nothing to bad. I think I will just run tomorrow.

Being without a cell phone is starting to become a bit annoying.  I'm still deciding if I want a smartphone or not.  They are calling to me with all their sexy 1080/8mp/gorilla glassness.  People complain that they have to charge their phone everyday. Uhhhhh, I've been doing that for years and it's no big deal. Ahhh old tech has its perks.

KurSplat!

Fresh off the road!

Imagine riding along (not too fast thank goodness) and suddenly you decide to just lay your bike down into the curb. Man, I wish I could've seen a video of it.  I'm pretty sure my head went smack into the ground.

It's been years , I can't even remember since I was at that point of "well, I can't do shit now, just gunna fall and hope shit don't break!"  I was cleaning my glasses with both hands and a freak cross wind came along. I'm such the bighead no hands rider I'm like I can compensate with no hands. Nope! Wind said,"get your ass on the ground!"

I splatted right at the corner of a driveway. So lucky I did not meet big brick mailbox.  I sat their collecting myself. Nothing broken, no deep cuts, bike ok, and yay! I didn't get racked. That's the worst isn't it?  The woman that lives at this house drives up and offers to give me a ride back, but I tell her I'm ok and ride home.

I got home and cleaned my wounds real quick and then went for a run! Why not right?

What you don't see in the pic is my shoulder scraped up and the other side of my knee.  Right now it feels like someone hit it with a hammer and is pretty swollen and bruised. Guhhhhh!!!  My ribs are starting to ache and my left shoulder is hurting too. Oh Motrin, please save me! Hopefully, I won't be a hot disaster tomorrow.

Was this an adjustment bureau intervention? Setting me back for a few minutes for some reason? Hmmmmm.....

Assflower

I died laughing at this today!

Someone from the Prometheous forums was using this as an avatar! Hilarious!