Monday Madness - Tacos 69 cents

Conversation driving down 28th Street (the big everything).

Jim - Dang! I wish it was Tuesday we could get tacos for dinner.

Shawn - you mean Monday.

J - no Tuesday - I'm talking about the Taco Bell sign.

S - it said Monday

J - I'm sure it was Tuesday! I'm turning around. (Turns into a drive way to turn around)

S - (kinda quiet)

J - whoever's wrong has to confess on their blog.

S - That's a deal!

J - (looks at sign) guess they couldn't have changed it that quick!

Dang! My eyes told me Tuesday! How do they do that! I'm sure I took the "T" from taco and made it the day of the week. Or doesn't it just make sense that Taco day would be Tuesday? I tell ya!

Also, tonight we were introduced to Al Walker. Actually Al Walker introduced us to Al Walker. Of course many around here know him as "The King". The King cut a new album and, well how you gonna discover talent unless you lay down 10 bucks for a new release?? We're listening to The King right now and the best way to describe his music is kinda mono dimensional. I hope the 10 bucks buys him a good meal. I told Shawn she should have given the money to a homeless shelter...

I can post from my crackberry!

Sweet!

"A good deed never goes unpunished"

When my mom passed away, we were looking at a string of letters that obviously caused a great deal of angst (senior citizen angst) in her life. One was a from a lady that was putting together the news letter and had taken some heat for her new editing style. After a few too many complaints she left the newsletter post saying "No good deed goes unpunished" . We laughed because we thought it was a funny statement - and actually thought the quote was "let no good deed go unnoticed". Then this week I got a note at work that used the same phrase "Let no good deed go unpunished" so I had to Google it....

It turns out "A good deed never goes unpunished" is a quote from Gore Vidal. It's a bit of a cynical look at how sometimes (many times) people have nothing but criticism for an act of kindness. Like if you were to give a homeless person 10 bucks, just to make his day, someone would be likely to say: "you know, you could give that to a shelter and help out a lot more homeless people". So there you go - The quote was right after all!

If you thought this was going to be information about Gore Vidal - it is not. I'm not smart enough to know much about him... I know much more about Al Gore and Vidal Sassoon.

So there you go cats! I still like "A good deed never goes unnoticed"!

ALSO - Today in my locker there are 4 belts! and I am wearing one now! That should get me thru a summer of riding!

for the lack of a belt...

Life is heck as a non-traditional commuter! For the last two days I have biked or run to work AND got a ride home. That means two days of wearing work clothes home - WITH MY BELT!!! I usually have two belts in my locker at work, but today - zero belts. I may go to the company store to see if they have a belt I can wear. Hopefully they'll have one like the one on the left!

In other news...it was really cold on our ride in this AM! We were on single bikes, my single bike was a single speed. My single speed is good for up hills, but slow on the down hills. At the end of the ride I ran out of up hills to catch Shawn, so she beached! (as in "beat"-ched me to work).

Keep your pants on Cats!

Shawn and I spent the weekend on North Carolina's Outer Banks.  The cool people just write OBX.  It's the little spit (actually long spit) of land off the coast of NC.  It's a very nice place!   My favorite part was seeing all the pick-up trucks with fishing pole holders in the front of their trucks (and some behind).   Many drive around with their surf fishing poles sticking straight up in the air.  I think they do go fishing too, but a cooler is never far from the scene.  I really think the fishing is just an excuse to drink beer - and there is nothing wrong with that!

Now class...can you use isthmus in a sentence?? 

I am a bit sore tonight.  I did my long run in preparation for the 5/3 Riverbank run in 12 days.  I did 14.5 miles today - Woo Hoo!  I was happy with my run.  My new training technique is no watch -  no time - no worries and hopefully no injuries!  So far so good.  Actually as I get older, all I want to do is maintain a steady pace.  I think I am doing that so far this year.  That's the nice thing about not timing myself - it FEELS like I am keeping a steady pace and that's good enough for me!

First post on the jimratblog - I hate to leave Yahoo - but it stinks!

Blogger it up cats!