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What is Pac-Man’s best stroke anyway?
Not sure how, really, but today I swam 3,200 yards. The why has become easier. I remember, a year or two ago, topping out on a little ridge on my bicycle. The view was great, just a ribbon of road and...
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Everything in this post is wonderful
Got a 2,500 meter swim in this lane today. Only took 800 meters to feel “good,” which is a lot, even for me. But this is the second time I’ve been in the #pool in a good long while. After the...
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To every meal’s seasoning …
Jeff Price says the Barbecue House is sold and the College Street landmark will be redeveloped. The oldest restaurant in Auburn, Alabama is going away. He just lost his mother a few years ago. His...
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At the Hermann Memorial North American Championship in Texas The Yankee completed her second Ironman on Saturday. That’s a 2.4-mile swim and a 112-mile bike ride, followed by a marathon. Louisville in...
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A fast race
It’s difficult to put a full day of racing, and the many weeks of training beforehand, into less than 60 seconds that you shot on a phone. So I won’t try. But this, nevertheless, was Saturday, a half...
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Happy Memorial Day
A Memorial Day unlike any other. There was no pageantry observed, no war films watched. The Yankee did use the grill. The day sped by with little tangible achievement. Went for a bike ride, threw yet...
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So June, huh? That’s one way to start.
Well hello there and happy Junevembertoberuary. I’m working on wrapping up week 12 at home. And this is where I would say I am doing well and we are blessed and all of that is true. All of that is very...
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What I’ve been doing with myself
Last week we were on the road. It was my first long trip in the car since the lockdown. I don’t think I’ve driven out of the county since then, but we left the state last week. A few weeks ago my...
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Oh so colorful
As of today I can be out of the heady cufflink manufacturing game. I’ve been making my own, you see. And I had some great fabric and the bits to put all the cufflinks together. But, now, the task is...
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Medium ride day
Today was the day. I did my first swim of the year. It was just 500 yards, which is not even a warmup. It was simply a test to see what part of me would complain first. And the answer was: everything....
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Separation of powers
I had a nice little swim this afternoon. It was little, just 1,000 yards. I am not a wise swimmer, but I am trying to be wise here. It’s early yet, I’m still building up distance or endurance or...
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The Smith Zoo and Nature Center
We had three-plus inches of rain last night. Everything stayed dried that needed to, I think. I still try to walk around and check most things after the big rains. This was, I think, our third...
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A mechanic, two hours of exercise, and music that still holds up
Took my lovely bride’s car to the shop yesterday and got it back the same afternoon. Regular maintenance sort of stuff. But things are better, she said. The guy has a shop in the middle of a...
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Now my jaw hurts, or my ear, could be my face, also my lungs
It’s possible that, while I have felt largely fine — tired, stuffy, but fine — that I’ve been a bit farther beneath the weather than I realized. It’s possible that I’m falling apart as I write this....
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Happy Fourth
I am starting to feel better today, thanks for asking. Many of the key symptoms have disappeared. I think I hard-coughed all of them right out of my body this morning. It was a huge fit. More the...
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A mere mortal, birds and a frog
I’m beginning to feel better, thanks for asking. It is now later in the day before I feel sapped. It takes a bit more exertion to feel weary. These are important progressions, signs and portents of...
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Mid-century sod
It is so hot, it must be July. Later this week, I’m shopping for ice vests. Summer just feels different, the older I get, and it is, of course, getting hotter, too. Maybe I should invest in ice vests....
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‘Step high and light’
Just when you thought the sinusitis was done with you, the head thickens once again. Otherwise? Feel great! Except for right around the middle of the head. It’s just a head pressure thing, a let me go...
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Two things I can’t do at once
We pause from our regular Friday style of yearbook posts because I have to take and edit the photos that we’ll feature in that next installment. But, since we completed our glance of 1944 last week,...
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To the weekend!
I have a new setup in the home office. This is, if you ask me, getting a bit excessive. Also, it probably won’t stay like this for long. Not pictured is all of my audio gear, which I need to work into...
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