little lebowski urban achiever · 12.06.07
started on the Couch Potato-to-5k plan Monday.
first week plan is start off with a brisk walk for 5 minutes, jog 60 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 60, walk 90, etc. for 20 minutes.
the first 3 legs i screwed up and ran 90 seconds. got that straightened out and went to 60 run, 90 walk. was supposed to be 8 legs of running (8:00) plus 8 legs walking (12:00).
i wound up going a little farther away from home than i thought and didn’t want to finish up by walking.. so i wound up running 12 legs (including the extra 1:30 on the first 3 legs – 13:30) and walking 12 legs (18:00).
my pace actually increased as i went. and i felt better as i went. i coulda easily kept switching off and went for another 20 minutes. it wasn’t what i would call exhilirating or orgasmic or anything but it was definitely satisfying and exciting to know i could do it.
figure i ran about 1 mile total or a little more.
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disaster in slow-motion · 5.06.07
i’ve made some stupid decisions in life. sometimes you know it in advance and sometimes it hits you like a truck long after the fact. i think this might be one of those “known knowns”.
jogging. why? boredom mostly. stupidity partly.
this porkbutt isn’t meant to stomp about on concrete at a high(mid-lo) rate of speed. not voluntarily.
but there i was last nite, warming up in the living room, throwing out some stretches. loosening up my hamhocks. stretching the achilles or some such. mentally preparing for the burning lungs, sore knees and throbbing headache that was sure to follow.
i’ll admit it wasn’t pretty. my form probably sucks and i ran a lot faster than seemed appropriate but i was out there baby, and i was loving it!
the first quarter-block was a piece of cake. got myself in to a rhythm and started to cruise. arms up. arms back. thumbs tucked, bend the knees, concentrate. this is gonna be easy. maybe i can circle the entire block?? (exactly 1.1 miles)
then my teeth started to hurt. teeth?? yeah. teeth. i bit down on my t-shirt to get some relief. that’s when my mouth started to dry out and my heart started to palpitate.
no problem. i’m 1/2 block in to it. just warming up.
appx 1/4 mile in to it and my heart was beating wildly, my head was throbbing and my lungs burned like i inhaled a meteor. i remember this feeling. the last time i had it was sophomore year of High School at football practice. only this time the pain is 10x worse. i’m 50 lbs heavier and haven’t exercised on a regular basis in months.
i got all the way out to appx 1/3rd mile and could go no further.
it just wasn’t in the cards.
tomorrow is gonna be a different story. tomorrow it’s .4 miles or bust. i’m gonna crawl to the end if i have to.
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RIP Archie · 8.01.07
Riverdale man fatally beaten
Devoted bowler, 62, savagely attacked outside apartment
By Andrew L. Wang
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 8, 2007
Watching sports on TV and bowling for hours on end—for Archie Adams, life was simple.
“He would bowl all day on Fridays and sometimes on Mondays, from the top of the morning to the bottom of the night,” said a niece, Nykki Barber.
Adams, 62, was returning to his Riverdale apartment about 12:20 a.m. Saturday from a bowling alley in Calumet City when he was beaten. He died about 13 hours later.
As police searched for leads and suspects in Adams’ killing, family members tried Sunday to make sense of it: a quiet homebody and member of a bowling league named The Diehard Strikers savagely attacked within a few steps of his building.
“Everyone’s taking it real hard, due to the fact that we can’t understand why this would happen,” said Barber, 26, who sat vigil with several family members in the hospital Saturday until her uncle died. “We understand that everyone has to go at some point, but for him to go that way, it’s amazing.”
Riverdale police said little Sunday beyond that officers responded to a call of a disturbance in the 14100 block of South Atlantic Street. When they arrived, they found Adams lying on his back in the courtyard of his building with blunt-force trauma to his head, according to a statement released by police.
Adams was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead about 1:20 p.m. Saturday, a Cook County medical examiner’s spokesman said.
Police declined to release additional information until Monday.
Barber said investigators told the family that robbery likely wasn’t the motive for the attack—her uncle still had his wallet, car keys and wedding ring.
“I really don’t believe [the attack] was meant for him,” she said. “Nothing was missing.”
At Adams’ apartment building, balconies overlook the courtyard, as does a security camera.
Building manager Johnnie Barker said the landlord has turned over videotape from Saturday morning to authorities.
No one answered the door Sunday morning at Adams’ second-floor apartment, where neighbors said he lived with his wife and daughter.
A neighbor who lives on the third floor of the building said she and her boyfriend were in the living room watching TV when they heard noises in the courtyard. The woman, who declined to give her name, said she pushed aside the blinds of her front window and saw a man lying there. She called 911.
“My boyfriend saw two people running away,” she said.
Barker said Adams and his family had lived in the building for about 4 1/2 years. .
“He and his wife were some of my best tenants,” Barker said.
Barber said her uncle, who married her aunt about 13 years ago, was born in Mississippi and moved to Chicago with his parents, brothers and sisters.
He had four stepchildren, a 16-year-old daughter and a son, Michael, who was murdered in 2000, when he was 18, she said. “He never quite got over that,” Barber said.
She described Adams as an “at-home person” who hadn’t worked in years because of a heart condition.
Police asked anyone with information to call 708-841-2203.
take that wafflecakes! · 18.10.06
minor hiccup.
my tech department has fixed the problem.
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FIRE KURT SCHOTTENHEIMER · 4.10.06
I’ve already had enough of this incompetent, fumbling, boob. EEEEEEEEEEEENOUGH!
Packers DBs hate him (allegedly). None of our guys are developing. Opposing receivers are running free in the secondary. Our secondary is rated #31 in the NFL!
He’s on the staff as a favor to his brother Marty. Payback for getting McCarthy his start. He’s a failure. Period. He stunk in his first go-round under Sherman and he has proven to be just as rotten this time around.
IT’S WELL PAST TIME TO CUT THIS GUY LOOSE. Let him go back to working with his brother in San Diego. The only way this guy gets another job after this season is because of nepotism.
FUCK YOU KURT SCHOTTENHEIMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU!
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the brilliance of jazz · 23.09.06
taken from the youtube page of a guy named GrooveHunter
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
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The Giant Kamala · 22.09.06
Reminiscent of a horrible homeless man’s Sam Cooke with some really awful, cheesy, synthesizer beat.
From the deepest, darkest, jungles of…..... downtown Dallas….... apparently
RIP you nutty nutty man · 4.09.06
THE Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead.
He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said today.
It is understood he was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest.
He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary when the tragedy occured.
Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.
Irwin’s body is being flown to Cairns.
It is believed his American-born wife Terri is trekking on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and is yet to be told of her husband’s death.
Irwin – known worldwide as the Crocodile Hunter – is famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchcry “Crikey!”.
The father of two’s Crocodile Hunter program was first broadcast in 1992 and has been shown around the world on cable network Discovery.
He has also starred in movies and has developed the Australia Zoo wildlife park, north of Brisbane, which was started by his parents Bob and Lyn Irwin.
Tributes have already started pouring in for the larger-than-life character.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who used a photograph of his family at Australia Zoo for his official Christmas card last year, hailed Mr Irwin for his work in promoting Australia.
Irwin was heavily involved in last year’s “G’Day LA” campaign.
“The minister knew him, was fond of him and was very, very appreciative of all the work he’d done to promote Australia overseas,” a spokesman said.
A Tourism Queensland spokeswoman said the death was shocking and paid tribute to Irwin’s “enormous contribution” to his adopted state.
Louise Yates said it was impossible to quantify how much Mr Irwin had meant to the Queensland tourism industry.
“I don’t think we could even estimate how much he brought us through his personality and his profile and his enthusiasm about Queensland,” she said.
“It would be difficult to estimate how much he was worth. And it would be difficult to underestimate.”
She said Irwin had been a larger-than-life ambassador.
“It’s not just what he brought but what he took with him when he travelled, his passion.”
Australia Zoo, on southeast Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, employs more than 500 people and attracts thousands of visitors every day.
But Ms Yates said it would be “unfair and unjust” to put a dollar value on Irwin’s worth to the state, because of how much he had given.
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