Archive for November, 2008

Dear Old Man

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Dear Old Man in the Glenville Queen Diner in Glenville, NY, wearing the black and white houndstooth patterned cap, who looked like he had one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana peel,
I’m sorry if you felt we were laughing too loudly, but asking us “Do you think you are at home?” [...]

Say what?

Friday, November 28th, 2008

These are two more chocolate bars I bought in Korea.  They were vaguely familiar to me already.  The KicKer bar looks like the KitKat bar here in the US.  Not surprisingly, it tastes just like like the KitKat bar also, with the exception that it seems to be thicker on the chocolate, and less on [...]

Troy Turkey Troy

Friday, November 28th, 2008

The race was so-so.  I didn’t crash and burn and I beat my 10K PR by 14 seconds (chip time).  Not too bad considering my training has been so light (and thank goodness for flat courses).
The 10K was as 10:30 am (awkard start time!) right after the 5K which was at 9:30.  We actually had [...]

Carbs tonight, race tomorrow, weight

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Tomorrow I have the Turkey Trot in the morning and the Turkey Food in the afternoon.  I don’t think this race is going to be particularly fast, since I haven’t really had much chance to run.  But I will give it my best shot as always.  It will be cold and drizzly, which I think [...]

Smoker’s suck

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I’m sorry if you are a friend of mine and you smoke, but I’ve really had it with smokers ruining things.
Today we got a box from an Ebay auction.   It was 16 pounds of Lego blocks that my wife for my son for Christmas.  She paid alot of money for them.  The seller has perfect [...]

c-c-c-cold

Monday, November 24th, 2008

When did I get so wimpy about cold?  I used to really pound it out in the cold weather.  Now my hands are freezing and I find myself taking too long in the shower, just to warm up.  Egads.
I ran last night at the park with my running buddy.  We started late in the day [...]

1000

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

This is my 1000th post.  I wanted to say something profound to mark the day but could not come up with anything.  So…
I was in the shower at the gym today and in walked a guy who I went to high school with.  It was very awkward.  I wanted to say “Hey, good to see [...]

cheesecake

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Oh how I hate you, cheesecake.  You spoil everything.  Especially the morning weigh in.
Why does8 oz of cheesecake outside your body, weigh 3 pounds inside your body?

So, yeah, that’s where I went

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I was in South Korea for a week on business.  That is to say, I spent 80% of my time in the factory and 15% of my time drinking soju with the Koreans, and 5% of my time trying to sleep on a rock hard matress. Strange place indeed.  The food was good, but a [...]

The Koreans lied to me

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I bought some chocolate while I was in Korea.  Well, I THOUGHT I bought some chocolate (can anyone translate Korean?).  I picked out this box on the shelf because it had a picture of cacao pods on it.  I knew they were some sort of cookie, but there’s cacao pods on it, so it HAD [...]