61 and counting

tired but inspired i headed out in 39 degrees and up to st margaret's church and then over to the thames river and north to wolvercote village; about 4.5 miles the way i did it and stopped to buy a drink; then headed over to cuttslowe and down sunderland rd and then south through summertown and back to jericho. got another drink at londi's and headed over and down the oxford canal to botley and over to the grocery store where i bought a baguette and diet coke for lunch. all in all i made sure i stayed out until i had covered 10 miles. a good start of mind over body as i started tired and stayed that way the entire run. but glad i did it and feel ok now after lunch.

lots to do this week. staying in my little positive mode, will enjoy what i can and get done what i can. it is still pretty ok here and i will just slow down the mental rush i feel of wanting to be home; there are things i can do here to get the process started.

had a cute ecard from jill and a birthday card from my aunt g and 2 good emails from my brother and daughter beth. will get to them in a bit. have to get going, but will ad more later.

they have changed the weather forecast from a mostly sunny week to a mostly rainy week though the all day rain today has not materialized yet. as i type though it is clouding up.

btw-watched what i could of tiger's win yesterday on the pc. the man is just out of this world great as a golfer. still, it is just golf and it is funny how people gush over it when kenya and other places have people dying for no reason. the global economy hasn't morphed yet into a global helpfulness. may the republicans choke on their words. for a treat of pure bullshit don't forget to listen to the state of the union message tonight. our country should be embarrasses as hell that this fool stole one election and somehow, how can this be, somehow he won a second term. ashamed might be a better choice of a description than embarrassed.

little gabriel the tree hugger at bonn square here deserves more credit than most. still, sadly the 100 year old tree is gone.