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I arrive at BWI at nine a.m. for a ten a.m. flight. If I’d had any bags to check, this would have been a mistake: there are easily two hundred people waiting in the line for check-in with baggage at the Southwest counter. Bagless, I can duck into a separate “line” (actually, there’s no one [...]
I lurched through the predawn darkness, pouring sweat, laboring up hills, trying not to lose control of my limbs on the way down hills. I guess you really can lose a lot in a week where running is concerned. Also, getting up this early again: I was befuddled and dim-witted with sleepiness at the gym. [...]
Due to jet lag, I didn’t get much sleep Sunday night and so decided to skip the gym Monday morning. Important to ease back into these things. Wouldn’t want to traumatize myself, pack it in altogether, no sir, wouldn’t want to do that.
It was manifestly not good to be back in Baltimore, which at this [...]
…I have a web site.
I will have something for you no later than Wednesday morning.
I’m not going to bring the laptop to Arizona, not least because I’ll be staying in a tent part of the time, so it’s unlikely I’ll get a chance to update much here while I’m out there.
This might also limit the exhaustiveness of my report when I get back, since it’s hard to catch up [...]
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I took a longer run, and, for a little while, I finally got past the “needing to make an effort to keep going” feeling and into the “running for the sake of running” feeling. It’s been a while.
Of course, I won’t get any running in for almost a week, as I’ll be in Arizona and [...]
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So it is possible to sleep in sometimes after all.
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There was some freelance work.
There was some take-home day-job work.
There was a phone call to United Airlines. One of A.’s childhood friends is marrying in August in the Philadelphia area, but not, unfortunately, until after we will have moved to Montana. Then there’s [...]
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The capacity of the human heart for self-delusion is nearly limitless. Case in point: the Home Depot cashier had just finished ringing up my cart-load of purchases. When she told me the total, all I heard was “seventy four.” For a fleeting moment, I allowed myself to believe that that was all she’d said — [...]
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As I ran up the long, gradual incline of Chestnut Hill Avenue, from the intersection of The Alameda and Loch Raven, I stumbled into the middle of a squirrel fight. At first I thought that the one small furry animal being chased down the utility pole was a rat, but it just turned out to [...]
“Twenty common birds — including the northern bobwhite, the field sparrow and the boreal chickadee — have lost more than half their populations in the past 40 years, according to the society’s research… “Today you can’t find a bobwhite in Pennsylvania, and hearing a whippoorwill is a red letter day,” he said at an Audubon [...]