Very good piece by Peter Birkenhead, touches on a lot of things and will get your mind thinking and reflecting.


http://www.salon.com/2011/12/27/why_we_still_cant_talk_about_slavery/singleton


"When the Civil War ended, there were no truth and reconciliation commissions formed to process memories, no Nuremberg Trials to enable reflection, no Great Emancipator to free the future from the past — only ghosts and the ravenous politics of memory. The need for national reckoning was quickly subordinated to the political imperative of reunification, and on both sides of the Mason Dixon line, forgetting became more valuable than remembering."

simple list

Xmas

Community season 2    dvd
Adventure time: my two favorite people    dvd
Soccer ball size 5 / Cleats  for laters  outdoor soccer  which means can wait till spring has sprung
Sony MDR-V700DJ Studio Monitor Series DJ Headphones   - just big cus its a link
star trek: deep space 9   complete series

http://www.bangvideogame.com/buy.php    for the pc  i guess

Option for the region?

With all of these downed trees wouldn't it be great if there was like a group of, i don't know, willing, hardworking, young American's that want to improve their communities and their country and have a job or pathway to education or further employment. You would like need a whole lot of them, because of all the damage, like maybe a Corps of American's that work with communities to improve and conserve our open spaces. I wonder if something like that exists? Oh wait it does? http://www.americorps.gov/

And I'm sure many Brookfielders sojourn to Cape Cod

Read about how well there program works for them http://www.americorpscapecod.org/

Heck, if such a thing existed before, a lot of these vine covered trees that could have been taken care of, and a lot less hardship. Just guessing.

haiku

Grumpy geese gather
noontime drinks. Soirée over
goslings left with string.

reboot 2.0

coming up  2..0   reboot    like DC comics


remix

story time

Another "good" idea - run a half marathon after resting ones knee for a month

Yeah, so I haven't been running much the past few weeks, half in an attempt to rest/heal what i think/hope is only a meniscus injury in my left knee  as opposed to any tendon thingy.   It got somewhat better but by then i was lazy and thought  I should keep resting it.  That did nothing.  Instead I got out of the training groove and couldn't really restart. so once again I do a half-marathon with little to no training and on the out of shape side of my median fitness level.

It was the Stratton Faxon Fairfield Half-Marathon   http://www.fairfieldhalf.org/index.html

It was a really big race numbers wise.  Twice as large as the my old largest.   Its a very nice course.  Not too hilly, and what hills there are might be longish, but not too steep.   The biggest course problem I had was the fact the first 2 and last 2 miles had little shade, but don't really expect shade trees next to water.  The heat (and the early morning humidity) got to me early, and a couple miles in, I decided the plan was to just finish and to not overheat.  So I took advice i saw online and really focused on using the fluid stations, which were plentiful, and walked through them.  I ended up getting a nice rhythm of walking some but mostly running (and at a slightly faster pace, so it seemed to equal out in the end)  I didn't achieve my main goal of not seeing any of the race leaders running at me.  I was hoping to make it past the shared start/finish course section before the uber-fast people made it, but failed.  But like net time wise, I would have just made it,   just I started back in the pack from them  :)  but yeah, they were fast.   Good crowds.  This one curly red haired kid around 8mi marker was preaching like  "if you believe, I'll believe and they'll believe and everyone will believe . . . "  very motivating.   With my running/walk I kept passing/being passed by the same people so at least I was consistent.  I was planning on not walking at all for the last 4 miles but somewhere between 9-10  by left knee decided it hated me and it really started hurting and I was lucky if i could make a quarter mile without having to walk.   So that cut into my time a little, because I had the energy, but not the ability.  Very annoying, but its my own fault.  Asked it to do way too much.  Also downhill at the end, which is harder on my knee than going uphill.

I finished somewhere around 2:30    if the knee hadn't acted up  i suspect I could have gone 4-5 minutes faster, but it s no big deal.


only 2 tiny complaints.  1  it was a lot easier getting into the parking lot then getting out
2. hearing 1 or 2 people complain about other runners walking, in the context of these other runners were ahead of them in the start pack (maybe they pushed through to start closer) and know were walking, the implication they should have stayed back.   Now I can understand if they like forced their way to the front but otherwise, since it was done with timing mats and net timing, it didn't matter.  I know I started further forward then I finished, but I just stood at was the back of the group when I got there.

and maybe next year i will enjoy the beach party, but i didn't wanted to blind anyone this year  with extreme paleness                          



and editing and proofreading might come lates

journal time emo me meh

hmm  so much i could have blogged about    maybe i'll retro blog about stuff
part of the problem is to really do post service  i would have links and pictures,

so right now, I'm bumming because a cool person I met at a concert  has decided
that since I wasn't available to talk or skype for several days, that I wasn't invested in
the friendship.  It sucks, because said person is pretty damn awesome.
I understand why she would be upset, but honestly, I was ignorant of the fact that

not being online for a day or two(which is rare, I know and was/is actually something I am
trying do.

I hope stuff gets better,

But with my luck trying to make friends  i should probably just stop.

back to being to dude with sketch book at concert (hopefully) tomorrow at http://www.theroomct.com/

Went rollerskating again today.  Only fell 4 times in 3 hours.  And only 2 were my fault.  talked a little but didn't really socialize with the  DeathQuads or CT rollergirls much.  Just feel like until I can afford the gear and safety equipment to be a DQ, i an just a hanger-on.    Still need to learn how to stop.  I can make tighter turns now and my back was not sore like it was last time.   The rental skates sucked in the back right heel no padding, but i made do with creative shoelace tying,


And my niece and nephew are here  so  fun with them  but put me in cellar.  which is not my favorite place  but it gave me the initiative  to not use wi-fi ao i can game once i get a wired mouse that works,

rollerskating is good for me because I know I can't do on dxm  so it is a motivator