Crazy Teens

I was walking this afternoon with the dog and my 'if it's sharp and shiny-I want to pick it up' child when I heard a bunch of voices behind me out in the desert. I turn around and it's the local high school cross country team running towards us. As they pass, I see that the 'one' girl is slightly ahead and in the center of 8 boys. Classic! One of them had some strong freekin cologne on, one had a mohawk, one wearing a pique polo shirt?! had black vibram five fingers on.

They passed us and ran down the street spreading out so that all of them covered both lanes of road. A green motorcycle was coming directly at half of them. I could hear them shouting "No no no we must stick together! " Then they were bumping into each other and laughing. As soon as they began moving over, the motorcycle revved up and sped through them rounding the corner in a whir of sound which was followed by hoots and hollers of course.

To top off the silliness, just another couple of hundred meters down the road I see this large kid talking up a loud storm to a circle of a strange assortment of smaller teens...maybe teens? I can't tell anymore. As we approach they break up and I hear the big one yell, "well you're a Filipino so go eat some lumpia you puto!"

Brooks Cascadias

I finally got to run in my new Cascadia 5s today. About 8 miles right near my house in the desert. It was actually warm too. I ran in just a t-shirt, no compression layer or sleeves. Supposed to be in the 60s this weekend. Man I'm going to miss this weather next year most likely. Anyway, they felt weird, but they also did pretty well I think for an initial outing. I'll post my thoughts after a few more runs to see if anything becomes more vivid to me. They're kind of an ugly green, but that's all the store had.

Rainbow Gorilla Eggs

Ahhhhhhh big blue monkey gunnna get me!!! No this is not part of the musical montage from Tron Legacy. I think Tron could've used a musical montage. So much plot exposition can be put out there in such a short time. I'm kidding of course. The girl working in the pic prolly does this all day. I wonder if being in blacklight for extended periods makes you eyes wacky? or wonky?

While walking today, I explained to my daughter that she was an egg in mama's belly when I was a little boy. She then said, you remember the blue eggs we found at the brown house? That's our house from Nebraska. I said ahh yes! The robin eggs. Who were the eggs for she asks. For the the baby robins of course. Ahhh She then tells me this grand story about when she was in her egg, she had a rainbow colored bird snuggled with her, and they ate cheezit crackers with sprinkles on them. I said that sounds like an egg party. She said nope, just crackers.

As I catch up on all the pics I took over the holidays, check out these recliners. They are pretty wild patterns. I see them and wonder if you owned these chairs what would it look like on the inside of your house decoration-wise. I keep conjuring feathers and black colored wooden animal sculptures. No?

And in running news I did some 100 meter sprints today. The idea is for me to try and run them in about 23- 25 seconds to stimulate all the muscle and nerves for running faster. As you do these you progress in distance and then in reducing the time. It's kinda fun, and I've never done this type of interval run. Hopefully, it will pay off.

Sun's Gone Dim

Well I did not feel ferocious this morning. I felt like a crumpled piece of paper. Well maybe crumpled cardboard? In an act of insanity, I decided not to run today and put the hammer on some much needed winter cleaning. Lots of loose ends to be taken care of. ( Gawd this song is sooo depressing :see Title)

The news just bummed me out today too. I've just absorbed so much of the news in the last couple of days, it was not healthy. The insanity that is spewing forth from some people with regard to the shootings in AZ... it just gets to me sometimes. Maybe that's why I found some comfort in listening to Skinny Puppy for a while today. However, it's one of those things where as you get older and revisit the passions of youth, you find a bit more of yourself unable to connect to it anymore. Maybe that's the core of it, maybe I just feel old today.

On a funny note, there's my dog. He's definitely a little skittish sometimes depending on the situation. I like to play hide and seek with him though. He will be upstairs and I will make a noise that he knows is meant to play. Sometimes he has to whip his nose out to find me and I can hear him get frantic in looking for me. Sometimes I will jump out and try to scare him, but it never works.

So last night in a very unplanned moment, I walked down the hall into a room right as I heard him trouncing down the stairs. I had walked into a room but didn't turn the light on. I knew he would go in the living room first to see Mother. I just barely peeked around the door and saw his foot coming towards me. So I jumped out and went brrahhh!

As I lay on the floor laughing to the point of crying, I am running it over and over in my head. As I jumped out, Finley had his head down which instantly snapped up. His body almost reflexively snapped to that play position dogs do with the front of the body lower and front paws spread out, but his head was still out of wack and up a bit. The noise that came out of him sounded like someone knocked the breath of him with the weakest bark ever. While frozen in shock, his mouth and teeth were clenched in a way that tells me without a doubt I scared the crap out of him. Jeez words just don't do it justice. Had I filmed it, I betcha I coulda got a video of the day spot somewhere. Gotta love our pets.

I think he kinda looks like Michael Keaton here no?

New Shoooz!!

Daddy finally got a pair of new shooooeesss!! wooohooo. On my rest day of all days. I better get to sleep so I can feel ferocious in the morning! Oh wait...what's that? What kind?!! muhuuhahahahahahaha

I heard a Who!

Big Family

I think this is the biggest one I've seen yet.