Today was nice.

Sorry I haven’t written anything in a week or so. Last week I picked up some overtime and then felt like shit for the better part of the week from being outside for hours on end in the 25 below wind chill. I got some really painful fever blisters from the wind that went all the way through my top lip from outside to inside that is just now starting to heal up and was generally miserable and tired overall all week long. I was a real piece of shit when it came to my workouts as well and didn’t get all that much done. This week is starting out well though. I got to do my run outside for once because of the nice weather and it was great. Way better than the damn treadmill. Just feeling the sun made me feel real good since I don’t really get to see it all that much because of the shift I work. It put me in a great mood unlike last week when I was extremely irritable with everyone all week long. I guess I’ve been pretty irritable for the better part of the winter. Hey, you try going a couple months never seeing the sun coupled with going to work and not really talking to your coworker ever coupled with not really having a social life. Basically darkness and little human contact makes for irritability after extended time frames. Good days are here again though, the aforementioned coworker has put in his notice and is going to be a priest or something in Iowa and Ed is replacing him for the next year. To top that off Jayballs and Aimee are moving back to Lincoln from Kansas City and he is coming back to work with us at Duncan. Sweet.

Hoop and I are meeting up 3 days a week Monday, Wednesday, Fridays to go lift. We both want to get back in shape and it’s just easier when you can’t skip it because you’re meeting someone there. I need to do some research and find a lifting routine more suited to what I want to do which is run. Hoop knows all about lifting but the stuff he knows is from when he played college football. I’m not all that interested in getting huge. It doesn’t really work for me anyway since I’ve naturally been more of a lean, lanky body type and never got all that big when I was lifting. I do want to get stronger though. So basically now I’ve got a nice six day a week workout routine working my way towards the half marathon in May and possibly the full marathon in September. Honestly, I don’t know if I can do the full one yet since I get a lot of pain in my knees and feet after running now. I’ll see how I feel after a while of training.

For the hell of it I paid for a month of Yahoo personals. There’s lots of morbidly obese women who are interested in me and I’ve gotten exactly 0 responses from people who I was interested in. The only thing I have gotten from the whole experience is a 100% increase in spam. Before I signed up I was averaging about 10 a day and after I sent my contact info out to a few people it has jumped up to about 20 a day. From this I can deduce that the only real women on there are morbidly obese and the rest are spammers. Neat! Maybe I will try match.com next since they seem to have a lot better selection. Ha! Better selection. I’m talking about them like I’m looking at used cars or something! Well hopefully I can find the one that was only driven by that little old grandma to church on Sundays in the huge parking lot of wrecked, salvage titled, hail damaged former rental cars out there! (hail damaged can be used as a euphemism for cars and women by the way, damn I’m clever!)

The dog got his ass kicked in a dogfight up at the dog run yesterday by my neighbor’s dog Benny. I had to reach in and break them up since Benny had Brian pinned down and was biting his face pretty good. He’s lucky he didn’t lose an eye. No blood was drawn but he did get a little bit hurt and was yelping and crying throughout the evening and night and was gimping around with his tail between his legs and acting completely abnormal. He seems to have snapped out of it today though and he’s fine. Good. I didn’t want to pay for the damn vet to get him fixed up anyway. I guess that’s all I’ve got for today. Sorry for the boring subject matter but I’m generally a boring person!