June-uary 2008

Today's high temperature - 65°

Yesterday - 66°

Sunday - 51°

January 1st - 50°

Not quite cool enough to dig into the Lawnmower Beers, but way too warm for BBChocoStout.

If climate change continues as such, I may never taste that wonderful brew again.

I still have my memories.

Iowa 2008

You Say You Want A Res-o-lu-tion?

Simply ...

1] Run, ride or skate every day

Sadly, surfing every day is out of the question. If I could, I would.

D'Kid was born to be a bike-princess.



Although she didn't drop her training wheels until October, she has jumped to the fore of the neighborhood's two-wheel set. She has declared biking "The best sport ever!!!" [yes, even better than surfing or swimming, because "you can ride a bike any time."] During the Xmas break, she brought me out for an hour ride every afternoon at 3:00. Some days just little loops around the block, but she actually took me out on a couple 6 mile excursions ... not much for a grown-up; but epic for an 8-year old on a single-gear 16" Barbie Special.

1a] Learn to Ollie and some flip tricks.

No Skool cruising and carving is nice, but it really shows my age.

1b] Better accounting of the mileage and "fluid replacement" thereof.

The BEER deficit has got to be much more than 400, although my weight hasn't changed. Go figure.

2] Draw or write every day

Something old; something new; something, anything.

I have plenty of projects in my backlog, some dating back to germs of inspiration 10 years or so ago. I need to clear out the garage, to make room for new projects which Mariel wants me to do.

Plus, you never know what goofy monkey doodle you made during the 2-hour conference call my lead to.

3] Pray the Rosary

One can never pray too much. Rosaries are the best prayers - or collection of prayers. And, in reality, they don't take that much time.

2007 Recap

1) I was below 150 lbs. for about a week during the summer

2) I ran a half-dozen sub-25:00 5Ks on the Winslow Township High School track

3) Successfully coached, trained and wrenched D'Wife to the finish of the 45-mile leg of the MS150. It is testament to her courage and strength that she got up and over the LongPort Bridge



4) Joined Assumption School PTA as "PR Coordinator." That has nothing at all to do with running, but the meetings do require a bit of beer afterwards

How Did I Get So Lucky?!!!

With the merger of the Coolrunning.com forums into Active.com, so have the legendary BEER threads migrated.

[the link to "Beer Thread 2006 - The Elvis Year" has been updated]

Active.com has a funky little points system, I guess with which to gauge participants' participation. I have not been able to find out anywhere on Active.com by what criteria the points are awarded. There may be some algorithm which measures posts you make and posts of yours that are replied to and awards points as such, but I can't find it.

I also cannot find any documentation as to what they are worth in the end, either.

Anyway ...

With the said migration of the BEER threads and a few other silly little ones I created in the defunct Coolrunning.com "Food Court," I was - until just recently - the Big Kahuna of Active.com points earners. In fact, when the BEER threads popped up, LaTortuga - my co-editor - jumped right up to #1 and #2.

Currently, we're holding steady at 11,185 and 8,930 points respectively.

I can't see my total going much higher, since - for my part - it's no fun participating in the BEER threads without her, MikeMills or therealman.