Thursday, October 20, 2005

SLC Marathon

Yesterday I registered for the SLC Marathon. I haven’t gone running since it started turning cold around here. Plus, with the strabismus eye surgery I wasn’t in the mood and I just got cleared today for stuff anyway. So I’ll climb back on the treadmill and will just watch Scrubs and Friends and West Wing on DVD while plodding along until all the snow melts and the trees begin to bloom. (boring!) Plus, I can’t use the Garmin thing I became infatuated with last month. A GPS on an inherently stationary conveyor belt doesn’t do a lot of good.

Though I might break down and buy some cold weather running stuff. The treadmill gets way old after a while. Plus how many times can you really watch Friends before your head explodes?

Reha joined a gym downtown close to where she works.

We are now technically members of 3 gyms. That will end in a couple of weeks. (Memberships expiring, cancelations, etc.) An aside: It’s a HUGE pain in the booty to try and cancel a gym membership, but more on that later. But it’s funny because Re has this great habit of getting on a “I need to get in shape. I want to lose weight. Mostly I want to go SHOPPING!! And I’m fat.” thing [Note: she’s not fat.] and she gets all busy and joins a gym or joins Weight Watchers. She’s done it in the past and we’ve [she] been members of two or more gyms at the same time. It’s like the more gym memberships you have, the quicker you’ll get in shape.

So anyway… yeah… the marathon. gulp. It’s in June 2006. Surely even I can go 26.2 miles by then. Plus, it’s not the 26 miles that kills you, it’s the .2 at the end.

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Partners
• Correspondence
• Help Wanted
• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• A Word from the Small Person in the House
• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

©2005-2010 Jon B. Deal All Rights Reserved. I'm not kidding around here, I know people who know other people who would be willing to beat you up or similarly infringe on your rights, should you happen to infringe on my rights.