20 calf raises 20 squats 4 almost-pushups if I had actually lowered myself below 1/4 dip lol 20 wall pushups 20 crunches + 8 bicycle crunches each side (...really?) Running session #15 (per twitter): "took it slow after tuesday's red scare - 3.3 mi in 50m15s, mostly at a brisk / power-walk pace, peak 6.0mph for 3/4 lap" Oops, can't edit a tweet... it was Wednesday, not Tuesday that I was spitting up a minor amount of blood briefly after my run. Anyway, I'm breaking out of the half-lap run platea... (...more)

10 one-legged calf raises, each side. I think I need to back off and just do more sets of regular (two-foot) calf raises. 2 sets / 10 squats 10 crunches; + 8 "bicycle" crunches, each side 4 abortive normal pushups (incomplete motion), 8 "3/4" pushups from the knee intermission: finished sorting that big box o' receipts 10 regular calf raises 2 sets / 10 squats 20 wall pushups with close attention to really good form - even proper "3/4" pushups were taxing me too hard to show good form. 10 regul... (...more)

GasBuddy.com connects lots of state and local "find the best local gasoline price" index sites to recommend the best local gas deal. For example, for me today, the best price on regular is $3.55/gal at a 7-11 on the corner of Hillsboro and Powerline, which also happens to be on my route to the office. According to CarTalk.com, I've been wasting money filling up my 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer ES on premium for 9.5 years. D'oh. Here's something I never knew for sure: the fuel tank spec says it holds 13.2 ga... (...more)

(per FB) I dreamed the reclusive Jackson Pollock was in town again so we grabbed our video cameras and stalked him through the library and museum and the park by the pond. — with D*~ at Downtown Annapolis. The backstory here was that we had run into him the year before, and although we didn't keep in touch, he seemed to enjoy our company. Maybe yours more than mine; this didn't figure into the dream but in real life Pollock was a narcissistic womanizer, especially when he was drinking, which was often... (...more)

Session #14: (per twitter) ‎3.3mi / 48.00 minutes, peaking at 6.5mph for a half-lap, regularly finishing half-lap runs at 4.8ish mph jogging. The best part of this was as I was coming up on the end of lap 13 (3.25 miles, my psychological "home stretch") I was all "wow I can do this in well under my 49m20s best previous time", so I stepped up to ~5.3mph. And I hit it at a point where I was well-recovered, so I just pounded on past the 3.3 mile mark to run out a bit over a half-lap (to the 3.5 mi ma... (...more)