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It's Her Birthday Too!

She's 74 now...

Yes Ms. Bardot and I share a birthday, but she has a few years on me. Surprising this year, I was not really anticipating my birthday all that much so when I woke up, I wasn’t all giddy or anything like that. Even later in the day, it was still like another Sunday. I guess because it’s one of the mid-year birthdays “37″ when not a whole lot happens or is associated with the number.

I got a bunch of cards made by The Younger, a rain check on some camping stuff from My Lovely and Talented Wife and The Kids. Our Reliable and Resourceful Au Pair gave me a basket of Chocolate Candy and Smarties - YUM! A couple of cards in the mail, a number of well-wishing emails and a French Press and gift certificate to a local coffee shop.

I wasn’t on a computer for the weekend, so I need to make the donation to the NMSS in memory of my biological father (as opposed to my dad aka Pa-Pa for new readers) who passed away in 2006 due to complications resulting from Multiple Scelrosis.

Other Celebs that share their birthday with Mr. Terry

Past Year’s Posts:

Wish Gwyneth A Happy Birthday

The New Age Group

The Not-So Happy Birthday 8k

This Birthday Sponsored by “33″

Back to the Carbs

Birthday

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

––Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

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This week has been topsy-turvy to say the least…

My Lovely and Talented Wife has been sick for most of the week. We took her to the doctor’s on Thursday and walked away with 4 prescriptions. Since this ailment had been around for (what we determined) to be about 2 weeks, the doc covered all the bases, hence the 4 prescriptions. What pushed her into succumbing to going to the doctor was the 8 hours of coughing, oh… make that continuous coughing. Thursday night, she slept sans hacking for quite a while. She was still really tired Friday morning, but that was because her body is playing catch-up (not mustard).

I had been hoping for one more run during the week before Big South Fork, but I didn’t get it. Actually there was a small period of time where I didn’t feel quite right and to avoid actually making it worse, I took it easy. The run was to calm my nerves more than anything else (being so close to race day), so not exposing myself was the smarter thing to do… and I like smart.

So Sunday is my Dennis Birthday. I know 99.9999% of you are thinking - “What the F*&*%&$”. Don’t worry, it’s just my quirkiness in the effort to nickname anything and EVERYTHING. So, with this being my 37th birthday, this is my Dennis Birthday. I’ll have a post for Sunday night (post-Success Sunday) that will explain why it is called “The Dennis Birthday”. If you want to try to sleuth the answer, I will give you a hint: My 33rd birthday was my Rolling Rock Birthday.

This Week’s Theme: View

TIMBERRRRRRRRRRR

This picture was taken with my mobile phone, so please excuse the graininess of the picture. The view is of a tree in the twilight of it’s life during the twilight of the day. This is my neighbor’s tree that died sometime last fall (there were a few leaves still on the branches) and is now being taken down.

The view is right from base of the trunk looking up. The remaining light of the setting sun is in the lower right hand corner. The next day, the trunk was lying upon the ground ready for it’s next stage of it’s recycling death as mulch or firewood.

Have a Great Week!

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Howdy neighbors! This week has been crazy and so this is posted a little later than normal. Hopefully there will be enough time to try for all the glory that comes with winning cool prizes crap.

It’s Race Week and it’s time for another contest! Here are the Rules:

1) Leave a time you think I will complete the Event as a comment to this post.

Event: Big South Fork 17.5 Mile Trail Run website

2) You can enter as many times as you want, but only your most recent entry based on the timestamp will be your official guess

3) This will be an Over/Under format, meaning that you time will count whether your time is over or under my official time

4) You can enter as long as Comments are allowed for this post, which is typically through Race at some point, but seeing we will be camping, you might get a little extra longer to post guesses.

Big South Fork is on Saturday Sept 27th at 8:30am

5) The Official Time as reported at the event website will be the End-all-Be-all result. Should no result be posted, then my watch time will be used

Results for this Event are (eventually) posted at: RACES RESULTS WEBSITE

6) Winners will have to send me their postal address to gain their prize. Giving me their address subjects them to such things as world domination, Christmas Cards, and other random items (and sometimes embarrassing items) sent to their homes.

7) There are no restriction for past winners… Enter and Win and Enter Again.

All submissions must be made as a comment unless you are technical incompetent, then I will accept other forms of submission such as carrier pigeon, smoke signals, tea leafs, chicken bones, etc

9) Is my favorite number, so I wanted the Rules to go to 9, so, uh, have fun!

The Crap Prize for which you are competing is:

Undetermined CRAP at this point

Stuff to help you in your guess:

Historic Big South Fork Times:

Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-9-1999 17.5 m 3:00:15
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-14-2000 17.5 m 2:51:25
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-6-2001 17.5 m 3:04:40
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-2-2004 17.5 m 3:10:29
Big South Fork Trail Run Sep-29-2007 17.5 m 2:56:26

Today has been a rollercoaster…thankfully as I write this I am on the Up and Up.

This morning, we had a meeting in reference to The Younger and his evaluation. Basically, we learned that he is at least just above average in everything BUT social development… He’s on the lower end of the scale but still statistically “normal”. The part that we liked was that the people there said that they liked working with us (previously with The Elder). Go US! Also plugged ASDa pretty hard there and now have 3 shirts to give away.

So, that was cool. Then this afternoon, I had a brain doc appointment to get a refill on my anxiety meds (which I was going to decrease dosage) and also to get some ADHD meds. Although I am not “textbook” ADHD and have functioned for 36 almost 37 years without meds, the ADHD would have made this A-/B+ student to be an A+ student. There were a few things that were rough around the edges that would have made me SUCH a better student… and now a better husband, dad, Kick Ass Friend, etc…

WELL, as luck would have it, some people got into a car accident right off of campus. A TWO ambulance wreck and so basically, I was late getting onto Alcoa highway to get to the Doc’s office. I took a gambleand tried to take a short cut, but after some miscommunication, there was no way that I was going to make it and so I was rescheduled.

I was PISSED! My “plan” as I devised since I had made the appointment 6 weeks ago was to leave work early ON Terry Day and then go to the Smoky Mountains and trail run IN THE MOUNTAINS, as a precursor to this weekend’s Big South Fork 17.5 Trail Run. Plus, I wasn’t going to get the meds that I wanted until Monday, but that was okay… my running plan was foiled. “Technically” my time schedule was intact because I was free at the time I thought that I would be free… but I was PISSED because the Routine had been broken. So I got a Diet Coke and Candy Bar and went back to work because I didn’t want to waste the hours on my time sheet.

Back at work, I did a few things before packing up to go run because I decided that even though my plans had been destroyed that I would still run at Lakeshore, 2 loops for 4.2 miles. This way, I would have more time to run errands. Well, driving to Lakeshore, I decided that I really didn’t want to run that far. I wanted something easier to get to, and a shorter distance to run.

So, I decided to go to one of the entry ways to 3rd Creek and run 3 miles. Easy enough… or so I thought. I park the car and I changed clothes in the parking lot. And I go get my shoes… I go get my… shoes. I go… (*&$%*(&$(*&%$ WHERE ARE MY SHOES! I quickly deduce that I have NO shoes, except for my dress shoes and my crocs. [MANAGEMENT HAS EDITED THIS POST TO COMPLY WITH REGULATIONS]

Oh, NO! I WILL NOT BE DENIED. I will run TONIGHT! So what do you do when you don’t have any running shoes. Well, one option is to run in socks… but that would destroy perfectly good socks. Okay, you could run with barefoot. Barefoot? Only weirdos and crazies run barefoot. Oh wait, that’s weirdos and crazies are runners… shoes are just an option. Okay… let’s run…sans shoes.

But there is NO way I am running 3 miles. So, I opt for 2 miles. Running on 3rd Creek Greenway is pretty smooth for an asphalt surface, I had little problem running. One thing was that at first my stride was as if I had shoes on. This was a little tough on the feet,but I quickly changed my stride to accommodate no shoes and things got alot better.

I did get a rock “stuck” in my foot that required me to stop and knock it off. One thing that I did notice was that hills “felt” differently. It wasn’t that they were easier, but they felt smoother in accelerating up them. Also with going down them.

I ran the first mile in 8:26, which is faster than some of my lunchtime runs. That may have been a little fast, because I could tell that my feet were getting beaten up… it was asphalt I was running on. So, I changed my 2 miles to just 1.5 miles.

I ran my last 1/4mile in 1:39! I then put on socks to mediate further injury and walked to my car (about 0.3 of a mile away). I ran for about 12 minutes, but that is exactly what I needed! I felt great and my feet are a little beaten up, but I’ll give them a little TLC and they’ll be golden for Big South Fork this weekend.

Speaking of Big South Fork… Wednesday, I will put up the Guess My Time, Win Crap Contest for this race.But until then, here are two pictures of my running shoes and my (current as of this post) Facebook Profile, since I was actually HAPPY again!

I will definitely have to wash them NOW (clickie to make stinkie, I mean Biggie)

See, my new haircut! (click to make big)

As Seen at your Local Tuesday Morning:

Of course "Better" is a Relative word (Click to make bigger)

And it’s only $14.99… but then again if it really works, why is it at a closeout store?

Seinfeld did educate us in the difference between Good Naked and Bad Naked

“Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.”
––Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

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This Week’s Theme: Road

Road to the Finish (click to make bigger)

This IS the road to Neyland Stadium, home of the Tennessee Volunteers. However, the “26″ was the mile marker for the 2008 Knoxville Marathon this past March! Have a Great Week!

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if there is anyone is reading this that is:

• a photographer
• a web techie

and that is either in the San Fran area or can move there (I guess)

Oh, AND needs a job… one of my fave photography site is hiring!

That’s right, the way cool site: Photojojo… not to be confused with JoJo’s Circus or the Movie Theatre candy Jujubes

Is HIRING for their store in Cali.

Just the way the advertisement is written makes me want to work for them… that I am an photographer and a web techie… but I don’t think it would be a good financial move on my part. Too bad they didn’t mention tele-commuting.

Here’s an excerpt:

This is a full-time job in San Francisco, CA.

Photojojo (www.photojojo.com) is looking for a creative, web-savvy person to join our team of photography lovers in San Francisco. Your job will be to manage and help grow our online store — a job that requires sleuthing skills to unearth unique and interesting products to sell (via the internet and occasional trade show visits), analytical abilities to project sales and manage inventory levels, and negotiating kung-fu to work with vendors to obtain the best possible pricing.

You’ll also have a hand in writing appealing product copy, planning and executing photo and video shoots, and planning and measuring promotions and advertising.

Superhuman organizational skills and a self-starter attitude are a MUST.

Preference given to those who are also excellent writers, understand social media, have excellent people skills, and an innate sense of marketing and promotions. It sure doesn’t hurt if you happen to be a great photographer or have experience in online retail, forecasting, or a deep love of metrics and data driven decision-making! (Not knowing things is okay, but you must be a good learner.)

Oh, but for me they use phrases like “excellent writers” and have you red some of the stuff that I write here about? “excellent people skills”… well, my people skills are pretty good. “forecasting … data driven decision-making” - oh the Statistician part of me just had an orgasm.

And some of that other stuff, I have experience with… and I did just see Kung-Fu Panda, so I would be great with the vendors for pricing.

Oh and like me, they are giving away crap cool stuff if you win their contest get hired because of my endorsement on your campaign trail referral.