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Seven K K

cloud badgeIt’s getting hard to come up with cute ways to celebrate my million mile-stones.  This one was my quickest million yet and it started with my worst day ever!  The day after I hit six million steps I got sick and had my worst effort at an embarrassing 722 steps.  I just could not get my ass out of bed that day.  The good news is that I have not gone below 10,000 steps in a day since then.  In fact, three weeks later I celebrated my best day ever at 31,000 steps (yep I got exactly 31K) and also that week was my best week ever at just over 116,000 steps (that’s over 16,500 steps per day average). 

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Friday The 13th Plus 7

Photo window sighSo the actual Friday the thirteenth was not that eventful except for the 11 hour drive from Providence, Rhode Island, but the next one was thoroughly weird for me. One of the things I like to do is walk before I start my day. To kill that bird and avoid traffic I generally walk at work as there are nice areas to stroll…power stroll that is. My work parking lot is next to a rowing club and many of the adult (meaning working stiffs) and college student row in the morning and they often take a lot of our parking spaces which sucks. Worse though is the influx of high school rowers that come in around 3:00. These are very sketchy (i.e. lousy) drivers.

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A Harley Biker

governor-palin-harleyA Harley Biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.  The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

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Age Test

So a friend sent me this in an email and it brought back a flood of memories of my youth.  I have to admit that I am old as I recognize all of them and know the connections.  See how old you must be (answers follow)…

A.  Do you know what this is?

jiffy pop

 

 

 

 

 

 

B.  Do you know how to use this?

ice cube tray

 

 

 

 

 

C.  What is the connection between these two objects?

cassette

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Half Way to Twelve

Like a bad "Groundhog Day" movie this is what FitBit greets me with every morning.

Like a bad “Groundhog Day” movie this is what FitBit greets me with every morning.

So this is my “clever” way to brag that I hit the 6,000,000 step mark which is roughly 2,700 miles since January 2012.  After all of this time walking a million steps doesn’t seem like that much except for when I look at how many weeks it will take to real in my next million.  At a 100K steps it would take ten weeks and I haven’t hit that threshold very often.  I blame that on the pesky need to work and pay bills.

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Five Million Steps

futbit one 2Sorry that I didn’t come up with a more catchy title, but like a 90 year old man sometimes they just don’t come. It seems like every time I reach one of these milestones the “looking back” includes some type of injury story. It is a “B” getting old, but at least I am not a 90 year old man.

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Spamalicious

Spam-22403128258Something is happening in Spam-land as the number of spam comments has exploded lately.  I am well over 100,00 for the life of this blog.  That’s not so much of an achievement as a pain in the butt deleting all of them.  As usual here are some of the highlights from the last batch…

August 12, 2011:  “Was Catsup Used As Medicine?”  [Since I was raised in Pittsburgh I have mixed emotions about this spammer.  First it’s Ketchup not catsup!  Second it could have been medicine, but generally it’s used to cover whatever flaws there were in the meal cooked.   Lastly I am assuming that they are talking about Heinz Ketchup as there are no other brands.]

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