Puddle Jumping in DC
I'm really not sure what's gotten into her today.
She stayed there for quite a while. Occasionally, as my hair failed to hold her 1oz weight, she'd slide down and then have to climb back up. Very strange feeling.
But, at least she's not chewing on the keyboard.
Sorry abou the picture quality. It's difficult to photograph the back of your head without waking up the parrotlet hiding there.
"No, we don't panic now. First we mutate, then we panic."
"Wings is good. Yes, wings is good."
"Wow, that's like the Studio 54 of oceans."
"Ears beat teeth." "No, I think Mke Tyson proved that teeth beat ears."
"I need to get more guys around." "What?" "I need to propogate, propogate, propogate."
"Boo-yah, who's got ears?"
"Let that be a lesson to you: stink glands!"
Every once in a while, you need a night off from graduate school.
I worried that by also setting the goal to Run 26.2 Miles on October 30, 2005 I might be undermining the first goal. Without being very organized about restricting your diet while eating enough nutrients to fuel your running, it's pretty easy to compensate for the running by eating more. I weigh almost exactly what I weighed when marathon training started.
I also set a non-public goal about getting straight "A"s in graduate school 
- I'm much closer on that one (there was this "B+" incident in micro-economics) but that also undermines the first goal - skipping a workout to do homework and bribing yourself with food to read one more chapter isn't great for weightloss.
So, back to that extension . . . . According to 
if I set a new goal of December 31, 2005, " The deadline for your goal is 97 days (13 weeks, 6 days) away. To meet your goal you need to lose about 1.37 lb per week." I might have to be more organized about this.
It really isn't a training season if I don't take a really good spill. This one was during mile 3 of a 10 mile run.
I passed the eye test at the DMV on Friday. I've never had a driver's license that had no restrictions. See how happy I am (It didn't hurt that the woman taking the photos was quite a character.).
The DMV in southeast DC is actually a good example of what I like about the city. When you scrape away federal Washington with all it's politicians and staffers and lawyers, it's, at heart, a friendly southern city. At the DMV, folks chatted with neighbors and joked. Everyone wanted to know how I liked the lasik surgery and who did it.
They're not perfect. On my way out, I noticed that my driver's license still had the eyeglasses restriction on the back. I went back in right to the same clerk and they reprinted the license. On my way out the second time, I noticed she had substituted a "0" for the second digit in my weight implying a significant weight loss. I wasn't going back again.
I had planned to run early this morning but had some trouble with the execution of that particular plan and ended up running at mid-day.
They've finally removed the construction wall by the Senate side of the Capitol. Not really pretty yet especially since all the Capitol trees are being stored over at the National Arboretum during construction.
But on the same grounds, you find this lovely spot. Click on the fountain or window for alternate views or click here for a view of the whole structure.
Capitol Geese
View from the Lincoln
Our tax dollars at work.
Click on the sign to see a close up of the "Wet Road" sign on dry side walk.
It's too early for school field trips so the mall is mostly left to tourists with preschoolers or without kids and lunch-hour joggers . . .
. . . and the omnipresent pickup soccer game. Here with spectators.
