Ninja Swirls

Dancing as one would only do in private while holding a box of mozzarella cheese its.. that's what I was doing. Listening to Enter The Ninja by Die Antwoord I spy a Lizard, better known as a green anole peeking around a corner outside my sink window. He's flaring his red throaty sack and I point to him and say "you're a mutherf***in ninnnja!"

Later I was finishing up the dishes and somehow I managed to spurt out a couple of small bubbles from the dish soap. They were maybe the size of my pinky fingernail. One of them floated for a very long time, at least a couple of minutes. It would get close to the counter or a cabinet and then spin around all crazy and fly up and down and zig zag. I was standing still watching this seemingly cognizant micro probe zip around. Finally, it just kind of stayed in place for a few seconds. I got close and looked at the color densities/swirls. None of them were moving. Usually it seems like bubbles are always rotating. Then it slowly came down and landed on the counter to burst. Can't help but have relativistic universe thoughts with this. But seriously, was that an unusual event I wonder? How often do people watch bubbles for minutes at a time?

Close call

I finished The Hunger Games. I have to say it was fun read. Now to see the movie this weekend. I don't think I'll be moving onto the 2nd book though. I also watched the movie preview a couple of times and surfed over to a couple of Letterman shows with Jennifer Lawrence. She is an absolute riot in person! Riding wild horses and being attacked by peanut butter crazy dachsunds..yah go find it on youtube now! She reminds me of Amanda Bynes a little.

Today could've been an astronomically horrible day. I came so very close to running over an old man and his dog. Basically, I'm about to pull out into traffic. When I pulled up to turn, my corners were clear, so I'm looking left at the oncoming traffic. This guy and his dog were walking fast apparently and must have gotten the light to accept a crosswalk immediately. So he just starts crossing. I just happened to let my foot off the break for a second and wham this guy is dead center, what seems like inches from my truck. I don't even think he noticed. He was just looking down. Had I had a clear opening in traffic, I probably would've ran him and his dog over. Ughhh it made me ill for hours afterwards. I know I should always recheck, but damn dude, don't cross when the driver hasn't made eye contact with you.

Syringe Buffet

My bed that I slept on from roughly age 5 to 18 is now in a Buddist Temple. The monk sleeping on my bed was meditating and saw a woman crying on the bed. Perhaps it has something to do with the tons of syringes found at the temple before it was temple. I had another bed, that I experienced poltergeist activity on. The current owners of this bed report no odd incidents, however the owner of the couch I had has heard someone call her name from the room with the couch.

I had a difficult run today. It had been 4 hours since the Thai Buffet, but apparently, that wasn't long enough. So out of breath, too full. Shins not happy. Ughhh

Reading The Hunger Games right now. It's much better than I thought it would be. I should finish it in the next couple of days so Liz and I can go see it this weekend.

I bought yurbuds. I dug out my old Samsung mp3 player. This can only mean one thing.

Strawberry poptarts are guuuuuud!

Hunger Pains

I decided not to do any weights or other workout items yesterday after my run since I knew I'd be helping my friend move into his new home today. Wow! Best decision I've made in a long while. I did not expect to get the workout I did today. My friend has some heavy furniture. Whhhoooo dogggeeee! The gun safe was so heavy, it broke the dolly we had. Just crumpled the wheel and it popped off. Luckily that happened when resting and not moving. I'm gunna be on the motrin wagon for a couple of days!

Everyone and their mamma is either reading or has read The Hunger Games. I'm like what is going on?!!! My friends kids have read it! And thank goodness the movie appears to have been done well with what seem to be positive reviews. I think I might just have to read it too. Yes sir mmhmmmmm.

Zensahhh

So my calves have still been acting up. Tuesday I decided to wear my cheapo calf sleeves while on the treadmill. These are just knee high tube socks cut at the ankles which I normally just wear while asleep if needed. They actually provide a good bit of compression for just cotton. Anyway, after my run with them on, my calves felt better. So I went to the running store, what the hey , and finally got some proper calf sleeves by Zensah. I have to admit, running outside with them on made me feel a little dorky. I'm not sure if it's just me feeling better, but my shins actually felt much fresher after. It's like I could feel when I was compensating with my shins and I could adjust. There's also a certain added heat, that felt good. It was cool outside today though, so that could be a neg in the summer heat.

At the running store, I had a brief discussion with they guy working there. He said, if nothing else has changed, it's gotta be your shoes. Dude, don't give me an excuse to buy new shoes! I told him I actually keep logs on how many miles I have on all 6 pairs of shoes I run in and only one pair is approaching the wear out limit. He didn't think I was crazy though. We talked about hydration issues, and he suggested I try coconut water at my local grocer. I don't think I've ever seen such a thing. Is it fattening? haha I'll give it a shot though. Why not! I also got to try out some new massaging tools from a company called Moji. gomoji.com and you can see these crazy little steel ball things that look like S&M tools.

As for the Zensah sleeves, I expected them to be much tighter. They do have a nice smoothness slipping on. And like I said, I felt them compressing my shins more, which may be a function of me and not the sleeves. I will continue to wear them for a while.

Foggy Pace

Was in Kohl's the other evening and I ended up talking to an older guy in the clearance section for a good 15 minutes. I thought he was just making conversation, but in fact, he was looking for people to work with 'his business" whatever it was. Was kind of odd really.

I was on a foggy track on base this morning at 720am. I was there to pace Liz for her 1.5 mile run for her PT test( which didn't happen for an hour later). 6 laps around the track was all that it took. It's just so weird to run on a track with other people running for time and having guys call times when you pass the blue cones. It's insanely boring and yet 1 mile seems to happen in no time at all. 4 laps already? That's it? Hmph. I always manage to lose count at some point.

Being out in the morning FL air in the pines and wet weeds brought me flashes of my childhood elementary school mornings, waiting for the bus, or walking to school and playing tag for never long enough. All the spider webs were visible from the dew and the water tower was like a giant tripod just emerging from the fog. It was slightly chilly too which made it just right. It's easy to envision the looming oppressive humidity blanketing me. Sticky McYucky!

My calves have still been sore though now during my runs for the last week. It's never really bad, but it's enough that I'm trying to compensate and my shins end up feeling tweeked as well. I'm not really sure what it is. Though I'm considering buying a STICK for some quick massage action. Foam roller on the shins is not only painful but an ab workout. I guess I need to stretch more or something. I feel fine afterwards though.

Are you seeing this?

3 new trailers for Prometheous this weekend. An IMAX trailer, the US full trailer and the UK trailer, each with unique footage. Exciting! Supposedly, there was a piece of unique footage on a tv spot on Walking Dead tonight. I've yet to see that one uploaded.

Ridley says in an interview Q&A period when asked if there will be anything as nasty as the chestburster from Alien, "ooooh yes indeed!" Ridley says he's actually kinda of embarrassed by its nastiness. hmmmm!!!

Bought patio furniture this weekend. Yikes!

Got my swim on today! Felt good!