Glad you're feeling better, Jay.  And glad to see you back here.

Yay!  Jay is back, and feeling better.  We missed you.   Glad you are back where you belong!

Erika, cool to see someone excited about snow!  My friends in western Mass were threatening to take to the streets with ice scrapers last time I checked.  They're also rankled about parking meters surrounded by mountains of snow and ice, making access a trek.

I've been wearing New Balance of late myself--the 890s and the free style version (with Vibram soles).

Dave, thanks for recognizing the enormity of opening the daily.    Nerve-wracking stuff    Happy the skiing was fun; sometimes that muscle soreness is a good reminder of your workout, yes?

Mari, a Philly runner I met recently (she's trying to do a sub 4 in 50 states) got into the LATETT marathon.  Looks like a super race.

TwoCat and Holly,do your respective 19 and 6 milers mean you're healing?

Enke, a muffin TOP messed up your diet?  A TOP?

NHLA, at the risk of getting ranked out here, think about visiting with a lawyer.  Sometimes injuries after MVAs sneak up on you.   In addition, some states require you to see a lawyer within a very short time frame after the accident (e.g., 14 days) in order to preserve your claim.

Mr. divechief ahem David (yup using your first name so you know you're in trouble .)  Thanks for your kind words.  Indeed, I do try and manage to run a fair amount of negative splits, but I often wonder if I shouldn't be more "leaving it all out there on the course."  I do prefer feeling good at the finish to the alternative, which in my case can include losing my gatorade.....which then entails negotiating my way out of the med tent, often times.

Lovely pre-dawn run at the bridge this am with 4 lovely ladies.  Generous mile each way to and from (we park at a supermarket)  and then seven over and out with a few ladders.  Thursday is Farmers' Market downtown, so I get to see the various flowers, fruits and veggies getting set up on the last mile back to the cars.

Say, the moon here is really pretty right now.  We have a waxing cresent, but the cresent is situated in the sky just like a bowl. I don't thing we see that farther north; the moon is usually on the right or left, no?

Have super Thursdays.

Mr. divechief ahem David (yup using your first name so you know you're in trouble .)  Thanks for your kind words.  Indeed, I do try and manage to run a fair amount of negative splits, but I often wonder if I shouldn't be more "leaving it all out there on the course."  I do prefer feeling good at the finish to the alternative, which in my case can include losing my gatorade.....which then entails negotiating my way out of the med tent, often times.

dave (or is it David?) - is that the same amblin' amy with nearly 90 AG victories to date to say nothing of 20+ and more a year and with more than a dozen in a row several times (14,15,17, etc.)?

ps - are you the same divechief who thought he could beat her in the Boston Marathon?, . . David, David, David.

Nice run with the ladies this morning Aamos. I would LOVE to go to an outdoor farmer's market right now. Flowers? Fruits and vegetables? Being sold outside? What is this madness you speak of?!

 

DH subscribed to Netflix and I am officially addicted to House of Cards. We've been watching an episode every night to try and get caught up. Francis Underwood is a bad dude!

Florida  =  Abundant flowers. 

DItto on House of Cards.  I love it when Kevin Spacey turns and talks to the camera.  There's a name for that ....(also love it when a character in a book does it.)

Aamos, you know perfectly well that the actor speaking to the camera or the audience is called an "aside."  And I love Spacey in this role. He's my idol! I have no idea what jlynne is talking about.

Get well Jay!

2.2 jog/walk, and then lots of core and stretching.  Still a bit tired.  Spareribs

Flowers? Fruits and vegetables? Being sold outside? What is this madness you speak of?!

 

Spring is right around the corner - hang in there Jlynne!

Aamos, you know perfectly well that the actor speaking to the camera or the audience is called an "aside."  And I love Spacey in this role. He's my idol! I have no idea what jlynne is talking about.

 

O Ribs, you made me go look it up, which is so YOU.  It's a technique called 'meta reference' as explained here:

One of the earliest metareferences in cinema is in the Marx Brothers' movie Animal Crackers, in which at one point Groucho speaks directly to the camera, saying, "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."

In the Road to... films of the 1940s, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby frequently spoke to the audience and made references to the studio, the movie, and the actors.

A more recent example comes from Fight Club. A scene near the end of the movie returns to its opening scene, but instead of saying "I can't think of anything," the narrator now says, "I still can't think of anything," demonstrating that he is aware of having been subjected to a cinematic time-shift; another character responds sarcastically with "Ah, flashback humor."

Mel Brooks has made metareference a directorial trademark in several of his films. In Blazing Saddles, a fight within the movie spills over into the film studio where it is being filmed and the characters fight with those from other movies. Several of the main characters flee from the brouhaha to a movie theater to see how their own movie resolves itself. Brooks continued his brand of self-reference in Spaceballs as several characters attempt to figure out what to do next by watching a bootleg of the very movie in which they appear. Brooks continues in similar fashion in Robin Hood: Men in Tights during a scene in which the actors, unsure of the rules of an archery contest, check the movie's script. Later in the same film, Dave Chappelle's character references the plot of Blazing Saddles in his bid to become the new sheriff.