Fri Sat Sun

Above is gratuitous cute photo ~

Work

Fri read chapters 2 and 3 in Algebra II for Dummies

Sat read chapter 4 in Algebra II for Dummies

Sun finished reviewing manuscript (sent another one off last Sun)

Dogs

Fri worked with both on - down - sit - stand - and both got a bath

Sat practiced walking Bodhi on leash nicely next to Jake

Sun practiced a short wolfpack jog on the flood control dam

Sun practiced playing nicely with Dakota and Jake

Exercise

Fri Burned 100 calories on each of bike stairs treadmill at gym

Fri Leg Press 50 @ 100

Sat nothing

Sun wolfpack jog on flood control dam

House

Fri a guy was here all day doing stuff

Sat talked to guy at Home Depot about countertops

Sun got measured for countertops and decided on colors

Social

Fri went to a SWEC party

Sat went on a walk with Cheryl and Jake (with Bodhi)

Sun had lunch with Dom

Sun had dinner with Kim and Cheryl and Dakota and Jake

Yesterday et al.

Thursday 21 August = yesterday
1st day of classes = 1st day of sabbatical
a good day to start keeping up with things again

Work - read chapter 1 of Algebra II for Dummies

Dogs - worked with both on
heel - sit - come - sit stay - walking on the right - no bite

Exercise - up and down A Mountain once with wrist weights

House - spent copious time
researching appliances on internet
talking to Lowes woman about appliances
talking to Home Depot man about countertops and sinks

Important dates from the past month or so ~

July 28 - workmen started tearing apart the house - 4 weeks!

August 2 - Maddie adoption day (2004)

* August 13-19 - South Padre Island #7 with Ed & Marco

1 summer 03
2 summer 05
3 thanksgiving 05
4 summer 06
5 summer 07
6 thanksgiving 07
7 summer 08
8 thanksgiving 08 - fingers crossed

* Friday 15 August - did my first jibe
acutally I did 6 of them - 3 each direction

This is the one I can do now ~ light wind jibe ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnp6-6l-54&feature=related

This is the one I want to learn next ~ carving jibe ~

http://www.ehow.com/how_8992_carve-jibe-windsurf.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkNJhwqpRBk&feature=related

And here is a cool windsurfing (aka sailboarding) site ~

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~wprinz/windsurfing/windindex.html

August 19 - parental anniversary (42 years)

& TODAY ~

August 22 - Happy Birthday to Kathy & Susan (my age)

Hello Dolly

Today we are getting the rain from the hurricane - and I am going to start blogging about my daily ! exercise and Imogene training.

This morning I took the dogs on a 3-mile walk in the rain on the flood control dam.

This afternoon I hiked the Baylor Canyon/Pass trail. I had intended to go the entire 3.5-ish miles to the peak but turned around at just over 2 miles because part of the trail was under water and I was not willing to get my trail running shoes totally wet and muddy.

So a total of about 7 miles for me today - 3 flat - 2 up - 2 down.

Web Sites

Interesting web sites ~

The article in Outside magazine explains the guy ~
http://sifter.org/~aglisi

What is the difference between a duck?
Courtesy of some Rice students ~
http://www.betweenaduck.com/

Buy new artwork online ~
http://www.20x200.com/

Design your own energy bars ~
http://www.youbars.com/

Buy and Sell event tickets ~
http://www.stubhub.com/

Other people answer questions about your face ~
http://www.facestat.com/

Morph your face ~
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Transformer

Scary political ideology ~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment

Adventure travel for singles ~
http://www.oars.com/
http://www.theworldoutdoors.com/
http://www.backroads.com/

Dave and Imogene

Dave from St. Louis - to distinguish him from all the other boys I know named Dave - visited this past Saturday - Sunday - Monday. I had not planned for us to get together with other folks but he ended up meeting almost all the important people here. We had lunch on Saturday with Laura Keith Ian Erik - lunch on Sunday with Ed - dinner on Sunday with Marco and Kevin - and lunch on Monday with Marco and Larry and Dom. I know a lot of boys. But he would have also met Kim and Cheryl had they not been out of town.

We also took the doggies to the dog park on Sunday morning and to White Sands on Sunday afternoon and for a walk on the flood control dam on Monday morning. Maddie and Bodhi miss their Uncle Dave.

Dave left on Monday and I started training for Imogene on Tuesday. Just managed to get in a 1-mile jog on the flood control dam before darkness fell. Wednesday I started speed work with a Yasso 800 [3:40] on the flood control dam. Then off to Primetime for a 3-mile treadmill jog. Thursday/today I did two Yasso 800s [4:24 and 4:17] on the flood control dam and will later get to Primetime for a 4-mile treadmill jog. Tomorrow may be three Yasso 800s and/or a 5-mile Independence Day fun run and/or a pilates class.

I must be diligent about training over the next two months as you can see from the course profile here -

http://www.imogenerun.com/profile.htm

What is a Yasso 800 you might be asking?

It is an 800-meter (about half a mile) repeat and the goal is to work up to 10 of them with 400-meter jog recovery intervals. Your average time across the 10 repeats in minutes and seconds is supposed to be a pretty good predictor of what your marathon time would be in hours and minutes. So my goal is to get up to 10 repeats with an appropriate recovery interval - today I walked an 800-meter recovery interval - and then hopefully I will be doing them at a suitable pace. I am not training for a marathon right now but your marathon pace is supposed to be a good predictor of your Imogene pace. And the Imogene run has cutoff times - another reminder that I must be diligent about training from here on out.

20 June 2008

1st day of summer

summer solstice

longest day of the year
(tomorrow - first full day)

hot hot hot

today might be the first day in a couple of weeks
where the temperature does not hit 100+ here

on Tuesday my car thermostat hit 110

a slight chance of rain today

fingers crossed

today is also Take Your Dog to Work day

fun

Bodhi got to come home yesterday afternoon
instead of having to wait until this morning

yay

Events Past and Future

May 11 - Happy Mother's Day

May 13-17 - I met the parents in Key West and learned that "conch" is pronounced "conk" and that if a bar advertises that it shows American Idol on the big screen then it is necessarily a gay bar

May 17 - Happy Birthday to Mom

May 17-20 - I met Ed in Santa Fe for the century bike ride on Sunday May 18

May 26 - Happy Birthday to Dad

June 1 - Dom and I registered for the Imogene Pass Run on September 6

June 14 - Raft the Rio - a SWEC event - plus the fire broke out in the Organ Mountains

June 15 - Happy Father's Day

June 16 - kayaking at Elephant Butte Lake

June 19 - today - Bodhi was neutered so no more "half Bodhis" (sperm are "half babies") - I thought I would love the peace and quiet of having the Bodhi Monster at the vet for 24 hours but it has been way too peaceful and way too quiet today

June 28-30 - Uncle Dave visits from St. Louis

approximately July 4-13 - hopefully South Padre Island windsurfing with Marco and Ed

late July - Marco moves to Mississippi for a job as Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department in Gulfport

mid August - Ed moves to Louisiana for a year at Stennis Space Center / NASA

September 6 - Dom and I tackle the Imogene Pass