good day follows bad

what are the rules about posting anyway? sometimes it is hard to find time to post everyday, but who says you have to huh?

yesterday started as a disaster-small "d" , this is about running and golf afterall. i was up to almost 4 am the night before taking care of banking problems brought on by different addresses for credit cards and then after being up and still wide awake, decided to finish my bookclub book.
so i got off to a late start in the morning and then went out to run; 3 trails were still under water and 2 miles into my effort to run. the left shin and right periformis were not loving me and the ensuing pain was a tad scary, but at least not totally persistent. at that point, and being more tired than i wanted to be anyway, i bagged the rest of the run and did the one mile to the yogurt store and got some grainery bread as well.

later while trying to some on-line banking i had an email that a friend had a heart attack while running on the treadmill and may have been brain dead. fast forward to today and he is alive and recovering with as yet to be determined residual complications. thanks to a fast thinking woman on the next treadmill admistering cpr immediately.

did get some golf range practice in, though i hate to call the driving range practice. in a pretty heavy wind hitting balls into a totally underwater driving range it was almost surreal. but i did my drills and eventually i will have an entire new swing i hope.

fast forward again to today 1/24. got up early and read for an hour and then went out to run. sun was actually out and gail and i ran up to the old church st margaret's.. we stopped on the way back and ran striders of various lengths on my pre-measured course. worked ok, neither of us had any pain and the 20 minute warmup got rid of my normal morning back tightness. hard to get the old body to do what the young mind wants it to do.

out to the used book sale and got a few things. always pleasant going to the thursday market. also picked up two more bird series prints of Gould, an english version of the autobon prints she has at home. cost one pound each and hard to pass up at that price. will reframe them later.
then to the bank and post office, some store browsing and headed home carrying everything. add 3+ more miles walking to my seven mile run. then to the driving range and i acgtually could see some progress today. wore down later on as mark gave me 250 free balls to hit left over from the jr session. on top of the 150 i had hit, it may have been too much for my back, but still i had figured out some stuff and even my friend chris commented on the "new" swing. time will tell. golf can be like running in that one has to learn not to get too higfh up or too far down afetr a good or bad day.

then came home and was able to fix some of yesterday's banking difficulties. yea on that and completed some transactions finally. we seem set now to pay the rest of our rent in usa dollars and not uk pounds. this will make money transfers easier.

and there you have it. a good day mostly. still have to come back to the "hut" as i like to call our temporary house and each day the water, heat and electric work i am surprised. big fear is losing the washing ,machine.

fortunately the stock market rebounded a little. and the bubs passed a plan to give us some money. we can throw it at the real estate taxes. how does this help a country in total war and bad mortgage debt? they are hoping for psychologial relief i am sure.

my new idea--each campaign hires a future newspaper person. as soon as they say something or have an idea the newspaper person goes away and comes back with a front page headline showing the idea. then they can ask themselves-is that what i want the times or post to look like tomorrow---Reagan was a man of great ideas; Lyndon Johnson gets the credit, did Barack say he used or sold crack? even Bloomberg looked bad today- he is a brighter version of Fred Thompson, stay out mike.. save yourself the money and the headaches. once you are "in", you become a live target.

i still think it will be Romney vs any winning democrat.
and off to do laundry --