We're coated in ice and snow and winter seems so endless.  I've got Mount Everest to climb in the next three months and I seek comfort in my iPod.  I just grabbed a couple hundred songs from mix CDs my daughter brought home from college and discovered someone wonderful who is brand new to me.  Don't you love it when that happens?  Anyway, it's ( Read more... )

I went to the gym to run today on the dreadmill, setting my iPod to random.  The songs that came up were about rivers, and one of them, from Joni Mitchell's Blue album, brought back a memory with an almost visceral punch.  "I wish I had a river / I could skate away on" made me remember a perfect moment of skating on Evan's creek (a small river that ( Read more... )

I accidentally had a physical yesterday.

( Boring crap I ought to edit down to this single line. )

Dar Williams is singing to me.  "The nights were long and cold and scary, can we live through February?"  And I said, "What's a crocus?"

Local eating is going well enough.  It's still having an impact.  Most mornings I get up and make a batch of oatmeal and put frozen fruit in the bottom of the bowl and sweeten it with home-made jams.  Mostly frozen ( Read more... )

I went and ran on the treadmills today. What a difference it makes to be in January!

Here's what it was NOT like.

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The Great Migration of my computer is going pretty well; I'm down to doing things like mopping up my iTunes library ( Read more... )

I looked up last week-end and realized it's only three weeks until my A race of the season, a 5K that goes right by my house.  (Your house, too,
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I was just mucking about in iTunes and suddenly remembered that I had to go fix my "Fast" playlist.  The other day I was running along in the woods when Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" came on.  I recalled wondering what joker thought THAT went in my fast cadence mix ( Read more... )

I've got a feeling of imminent disaster again.  Bearing in mind that last time I felt this way I turned out to be going blind, I'm not sure I trust it.  But the weather forecast calls for a Nor'easter for the next six days, I've got 40-something returns to finish, and my radiation detector alarm started sounding around noon.

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Despite having a client call before 9 AM, I successfully took the morning off for planned wellness and home stuff.  For example, I watered my plants, did laundry, ran errands and got to the weight room for a decent workout. I tried for song synergy but nothing came up. All the music was about escaping.  But I know there's no way out for me but ( Read more... )