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adventures / I do not know what is happening. / photo / running / weekend — Comments Off on Catching up — UK style
17
May 15

Catching up — UK style

We ran a 10K today, which is an annual benefit for a local hospice. Took two trains to get there, but the people were lovely at the Sudbury Court run. The race was won by an Egyptian man. He was very, very fast. He had the look about him at the starting line. Everyone knew he was going to be the guy. He could not receive his award because he’d left for another run.

I was hoping there would be an award for the greatest distance traveled. I thought we had a real shot at that.

We were just happy to chat and jog. It was a pleasant little run, after which there was a cookout. It was a pleasant morning. I got a little sunburned. That’s how delicate my skin is, I got a sunburn in London. Here are our little finishers medals:

Yesterday we passed, but did not go to, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. We saw her out front:

I bet you did not know there was livestock right up by Stonehenge. I didn’t:

She’s mastered the selfie stick. We’re getting picked on about it, but it helps compose some nice photographs:

At our local restaurant and pub:

This is right outside the pub:

Across the street is an Italian place that we’ll have to try:

And another joint on the other corner:

This is our pub, the Crown & Sceptre, delicious food!

And, up above, the crown and sceptre:

photo / weekend — Comments Off on Photos on the go
10
May 15

Photos on the go

Just a few quick snapshots from a day that started earlier than this guy:

sun

It has been a while since I’ve been up before the sun. I have nights where I finally get to sleep when the sky is starting to lighten up, but this is different. Last year might be the last time I saw the sunrise. I did that for years when I was in the broadcast game. In the office at 4 a.m., on the air before 5 a.m. Outside, during a break, to watch orange light drench the valley. It still impresses me and makes me sleepy, each time I see it.

You sometimes see signs that you know were posted not because someone was proactive, but because some activity needed to be stopped. Usually the sign has to do with something obvious, like this one:

fountain

Clanton, Alabama doesn’t have the only peach water tank. And the seam on this one points to the highway, too:

sink

Toll booths, the other thing that makes you notice the poor condition of the road you’re on:

tolls

Always makes me wonder where those quarters go. They sure don’t put them in potholes.

Auburn / baseball / errands / friends / photo / weekend — Comments Off on Brown shoes in my size, the second hardest thing to buy
9
May 15

Brown shoes in my size, the second hardest thing to buy

This morning it was laundry. This afternoon it was errands. I had to buy shoes. Buying a specific kind of shoe in my size — and at a price I want to pay — is sometimes very difficult. This is one of those times. But, on the third store, I picked up some nice brown casual shoes that might feel comfortable.

Since we’ve started doing triathlons I’ve come to think of the comfort of my feet as a very important thing.

I also bought some new running shoes this week. I just eclipsed 400 miles in the old shoes and they were letting me know. Three times in a row I went for a jog that turned into an aching-calf shuffle. Well, you don’t have to tell me a fourth time. So that’s two new pairs of shoes in one week.

Didn’t get all of my errands done. The loafers took too long. So we’ll push that on to next week. Today there’s baseball. And then dinner, with friends. And we met our friend Sally Ann and her niece.

SA

We all dined with our friends Jennie and Jeremy, who we bumped into by chance:

TWER

Oh yes, I bought a selfie stick today. You’ll soon see why.

photo / weekend — Comments Off on Catching up
3
May 15

Catching up

The weekly post with extra pics, the excuse to be thin on the weekend around here, is extra thin this week. I have been too busy to pull my phone out of my pocket and take extra snapshots for you, Internet! I don’t know what you’ll do, but I’m sure you’ll soldier on. We’ll go with what we have.

I found these at Publix on Greensprings and they are inherently creepy.

cows

I’m not sure if it is the unfinished nature of the beasts or that the rest of the top is rather lazily the same color. I suppose if your kids asked questions about it — inside the containers were all the parts you’d need to make your own classic farm scene — they might be just about ready to advance out of this age-bracket.

cows

Of course they were placed at the proper eye level.

“MOMMA! MOMMA! MOMMA! I WANT THE CREEPY COW THING!”

She’s helping me grade things.

cows

She has the amazing ability to only be interested in the one I’m grading at the time. Not any other stack of fake papers I could put out as a deterrent. “This one, hooman.”

Twitter / weekend — Comments Off on Write this down; I had it first
2
May 15

Write this down; I had it first

You are going to read, by tomorrow or the middle of next week at the latest, an awful lot about Meerkat and Periscope and the big fight. Just remember: I told you first. Premium broadcast disruption is finally here in a big, big way. It will be a Sisyphean task to get that genie back in the bottle.

(Google says no one has ever written that sentence before. I pecked it out, thought it so terrible and cliched that there had to be at least 64,000 returns. I searched it. No one. This is remarkable.)

Anyway.

The user experience varied. I watched the entire fight, every second of Floyd Mayweather doing just enough to disappoint the boxing audience while collecting a monumental paycheck, in good-enough quality over three or four streams. Barrier to entry: Nothing. Money saved: $99 and a lot of agita, had I spent a hundred bucks on something as silly as a boxing match.

And then I started scoring the protracted, pretend provocation of the paladins of pugilism.

(Yeesh.)

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