Getting my act together - Tennis shoe edition

One of the things I'll be doing to help me lose weight is to get in those 10,000 steps a day that everyone recommends. So of course that means I needed new shoes!

Seriously, my old Mizuno Waveswere great shoes but I've worn them out and I can't afford a new pair right now. Instead I've replaced them with a cute pair of less expensive Ryka Women's Lotus Running Shoes.

I've never owned a pair of Ryka's before but I have heard good things about them. They are very cute (with flowers!) but I'll have to see how they hold up. I tend to be pretty rough on the heels of normal tennis shoes (hence the need for the expensive Mizuno's) so I'm curious to see how the less expensive Ryka's perform.

I'll let you know how they do after a few days of pounding the pavement.

July goals

Okay, so I'm not only in for July's NaBloPoMo but I'm also going to double down and set a weight loss goal as well. Not only will I post on this blog every day this month but I will also lose 10 pounds. Oh yeah, I know I'm crazy!

I have no heart for self discipline but here we are. And because I always need a visual aid (and even numbers):




So, for July from 158 to 148 (or less) pounds. Goal to be achieved mostly by sensible eating, walking each evening and random exercising. I will be held accountable by my DAILY or more postings to this blog.

Prepare to be bored!

It's a sign

...of what, I don't know. Staten Island Chuck, a fearless groundhog, bit Mayor Bloomberg.

Did the animal mafia put out a "hit" on Bloomberg for cutting funding to local zoos? Maybe so.

Groundhog Day

Over the Rainbow

The Israel Kamakawiwo Ole version always cheers me up. Here's wishing you a great 2009.

Dog saves dog

Awesome video of a heroic Chilean dog dragging another dog to safety after it was hit by a car.



Notice that none of the drivers stop to help? This would be why I dislike most humans and like most dogs.

Hurricane Paloma

What do you mean "extremely dangerous"? It's November for cripes sake!!!

I got nothin' - the retouched version

Only 6 days into NaBloPoMo I'm out of material (unless of course I want to post more political stuff which I'm trying to avoid).

For no other reason than it's entertaining, check out this site which proves that in these modern times you can't even believe your eyes. Behold, the power of retouching.

Other electoral vote predictions

Here's the results from me haphazardly collecting electoral college predictions from various TV pundits for the last few days. Note that all the results below are all predicting a Barack Obama win. I haven't seen one pundit predicting a McCain win willing to put a number on it. That leads me to believe that they're doing a lot more wishing than real analysis. I think if they'd spend a few minutes with a map and a calculator they'd get a big dose of reality.

Karl Rove 338

George Stephanopoulos 353

Mark Halperin 349

Matthew Dowd 338

Donna Brazile 343

James Carville 365

Alex Castellanos 318

David Gergen 328

Paul Begala 325

George Will 378

Larry Sabato 364

And just for fun:

Mrs. Parkhopper 352

Minima 353

Poll closing times

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