Five things friday

It's Friday... and I got nothin' else...

1. Jane to Colorado

My lovely lady left this morning to visit her brother in Colorado. Another of her brothers is going along too. The Colorado brother has been in pretty poor health for some time, along with simply living a hard life. I love how diligent my wife is in reaching out to him, calling, visiting, and making sure he knows he is loved. She is so gifted in compassion. That's only one of the many reasons I love her. Btw, while she is gone, I will be fixing my usual Friday breakfast each day this weekend of fried eggs and avocado toast. She bought these special frozen hash brown squares for me too, so I will add them.

2. Pain in the... 

I've been a little racked up in pain the past couple days. This may be TMI for some of you, but I've always had this thing where, if I do too much weightlifting, an area of my groin swells up. It's the thing that attaches to my right testicle. It basically feels like someone has kicked me squarely right smack in the balls! And it doesn't matter if it's the right or left! It just hurts. All the time. It's getting better, but there has been no running or lifting for me for a couple days now. This hasn't happened to me for some time - maybe because I'd been careful not to ever lift too heavy. But lately I've been upping my egym weight. Not anymore. Nothing but a lightweight for me now, thank you.

3. Running events

I happened onto this cool endurance running event from the same guy who runs the Barkley Marathons. The article is "Big Dog's Backyard Ultra: The Toughest, Weirdest Race You've Never Heard Of." The idea is, you run this 4.16666-mile course every hour, for as many hours as you can until you're the only one left! The current record - held by a Belgian dentist - is 75 hours, or 312 miles. It's the craziest thing... and I love it!! So it has me thinking about an event I'd like to start... but I'll share that with you another day. ;) In the meantime, this is what my running trail looked like this morning. How does an inch of rain flood the rivers near my house like that? Only on the south side...

4. Draft dodger

Well, not entirely. I did watch the first round of the NFL draft last night. And might watch more tonight - only because I'll be home alone. But I just can't care about 20-somethings making millions of dollars. I can't stomach anyone making that much, actually! I read a great article the other day, "Low-Skill Workers Aren't A Problem To Be Fixed," and I'm sick of rich people. Sicker still of rich corporations who make their profits at other people's expense. Anyway, I'm not much into professional sports anymore - and it has nothing to do with the racial stuff. I am becoming more anti-capitalist every day.

5. Caleb's birthday

Speaking of days... it was the youngest grandson's 7th birthday yesterday. There was a party last weekend, but we got to see him last night while his parents went to a band thing with his big sister. We got him a couple small gifts, brought him Chick-Fil-A for supper, and let him play video games. That's pretty much all he likes to do at the moment.

So... there ya go, friends. Your week is now complete. Keep on rockin' in the free world (even if it ain't). Keep workin' for it to be.

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“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” -Ephesians 4:15