Morning, Jay and all who follow ~

Great pic of Marj and Henry yesterday.

I echo Holly on the whole "only -7" thing.  Dang . . .

Never knew that calling a guy "cute" was a bad thing.

POURING rain and wind here, and it's supposed to get worse over the next few hours.  Shorty can't work, so he's home manning the sump pump.  A look at the map shows that The Tamster is getting the same soaking.  California needs it!  I do wish it was colder, though (sorry all those of you in the snow), because with it this warm, we aren't going to get the snow pack we also desperately need.

And so much for my optimism for running after work.  I even brought all my stuff with me!  Alas, we're supposed to go get our passport photos taken.  Since we've been putting it off, we have to get this done.  So it looks like I'll be doing Thursday's hill workout during my LR tomorrow and make up the missing 6 miles on Sunday.  You snooze you lose, right?

Have a great weekend ~~

Oh Tammy, that's so sad. My heart goes out to his family as they must be just devastated. And yes, unfortunately, David will probably experience this or something like it again before he's out of high school.

Rain on the West coast, snow on the East coast. We're still just socked in with cold. It was -38° this morning. And re: the "only -7" comment. After a couple weeks of -20 to -45, yes a minus single digit looks pretty appealing. Of course, when we first felt minus anything it felt really cold. As a friend of my dad's always said "It sure feels a lot better on the way up than on the way down!"

Might run 3 easy miles tonight after work. I have an eye exam late this afternoon so it feels like I'm getting off work early. And it's Friday. And it's payday! Yay! Funny how it takes having an eye dr. appointment to get me out of here before 5 and it feels like I'm getting away with something.

Playing with the cat last night she really bit me hard in the palm of my hand.  Probably get infected and kill me. That has been this cat's goal all her life.

Don't touch her "there" anymore.  She doesn't like it.    Seriously, though, hope you cleaned it out really well 'cause cat bites can be nasty buggers.

Tammy - My prayers to the family who lost their child in such an incomprehensible way.  I was the kind of kid who really struggled in my teens, especially 7th through 10th grade.  In high school, I spent a lot of time with the counselor, just to spend time with him.  He was a wonderful man who I loved dearly, and I'd say he's pretty much the reason I made it through, although I doubt even he knew the extent of my struggles.  I think "signs" with teens are very hard to recognize because It's "you now, the teen years."  My prayer is that with this loss, maybe someone else's life will be saved.

A number of years ago, the bursa sac in one of Shorty's hips became inflamed.  The pain was so bad, he was off work for about 2 weeks, part of that basically lying down 'cause he couldn't sit comfortably or even walk, and did some PT therapy.  Hasn't had it since, but man, I feel for you Holly.  Glad you found a way to tape it to help.

Hiya all!

Tammy, just echoing what's been said about the young man who committed suicide.  I was just reading about a 19 year old young woman who did the same in her freshman year at UPenn.  I think it was recently the year anniversary of her death, and her parents were hoping to bring awareness to others.  She was a super student, cute, ran track, just seemed to have it all going for her and then found college harder than she'd expected.  So tragic.

Dave, listen to Leslie.

Speaking of kitties, since adding litterbox 2, no problems with my ladies.  (Simon is so jealous of them; dive bombing them is his latest.   They really are ladies, to put up with him.)

Speaking of birds (I was).....

Um, Pacific NW folks! So how come I have to hear about the runner-attacking owl in Salem from Rachel??   What's the skinny on the bird?

Holly, I've been using KT tape on my ankle--is Kinesiotape similar do you know?

Ran with the Speedsters for a bit last night--being prudent, I started out on my own from the opposite direction so I'd go slow, then met up with them around mile 3 and ran the last 3 with them.  Been missing that.  Then got to Lakes Park this morning, hitting my old haunts.  Love it, just so good x3!

Lot of local runners are off doing the Ragnar Miami to the Keys 100 this weekend, then there's a new half up in Sarasota.  Just some local 5Ks maybe for me and some more miles (while I listen to Scott Saturday.  He's got a piece on Eugene Levy).  Ft. Lauderdale Marathon next weekend, I hope!

Happy Friday and hope it stops snowing and warms up for you.  It's a shame to have to cancel a winter party due to snow.

grins,

A

It's a shame to have to cancel a winter party due to snow.

I was thinking the same thing....

I was thinking about the weekend and what all I was going to get done (it's going to be a cold one!) and I get an e-mail showing the itinerary my mom just sent me. She and Dad are going to Hilo for two weeks leaving tomorrow! Waaahh! I tell ya, that's what the real Alaskans do when the cold drags on. Pack up and head to Hawaii!

thanks for the condolences everyone. I appreciate the thoughts, prayers and supportive words. 

I didn't quite make it home in time to avoid the flooding. the road leading to our house off the highway is flooded over. my DH 4x4 barely makes it through. my passenger never could. So I turned around and drove 5 miles and parked it at a church lot until the water recedes, which might  be a few days. lots of flooding devastation already. here's the end of our road coming off the highway.  I'm about 3/4 mile up a hill, so once we get up here, it's totally fine, but down along the highway, the "creek" that parallels the road is a raging river that is beginning to crest over the highway.