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One Year to do a 1 1/2 Hour Walk

jbb — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:39:42 +0000

image by joe bustillos

I woke up at 7 and couldn’t get back to sleep. I probably could have if I had worked on it harder, but I decided that it was time to do something about my lack of exercise. So, stretching the calves for over five minutes, I headed out the door and decided, after lapping my complex once to do a walking loop around the major streets around my complex. It wasn’t as picturesque as the Long Beach shoreline, but it was a good walk. It’s only taken me a whole year to get off my damn ass.

Note so self: next time leave before 7 AM and don’t wear black. Oh yeah, get a damn water bottle too. Ack.

Music: Saturday in the Park by Chicago from the The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning CD

Another Beautiful Summer Morning in Long Beach (CA)

jbb — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:20:11 +0000

Another Beautiful Summer Morning in Long Beach (CA), originally uploaded by boringcom.

Got up early to work on moving Jacob’s Ladder postings from LiveJournal to my WordPress blog. When I decided it was time for breakfast I was greeted by this beautiful sunny morning. Almost makes one want to go outside and walk on the beach… jbb

T-Rex Arms

jbb — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:31:48 +0000

Argh! I have a serious case of T-Rex arms today because two days ago I returned to the gym after a seven month break. It’s taken me all day before I feel at all comfortable stretching ‘em all the way out. Then I apparently flex them in my sleep and I wake up with T-Rex arms again. Damn frustrating. It was so bad that I choose to skip a day lifting so that I didn’t cripple myself. Lame.

So, I wish I could report that there was an actual person in my life for whom all this effort could be attrbuted to (’cause we know the number one reason for a fat ass … er… fat gut such as myself to get off said ass is either because of a new relationship or to impress said woman). Nah, nada, nothing and no one…

Gotta operate in the same fucking emotional vacuum that has been my life for many years. Ouch. “I want you to want me” by Cheap Trick is playing on the radio.. Years, you ask? Yeah, even though it’s only been 18 days since I last saw or talked with you-know-who, I was told probably close to three years ago by said woman not to depend on her for anything (because of the difficult nature of her divorce). Hell, eighteen months ago we made a toast on New Year’s Eve to “emotional unavailability.” What was I thinking? Anyway, once the divorce was final I felt no more welcomed or wanted in her life than when she told me not to count on her all those years ago. Oops. Ok, much bigger than a simple oops. I wasn’t planning on goin’ there, stupid T-Rex arms. But it seems like everything else, I gotta suck it up and get past the stupid pain that goes much deeper than a pair of complaining biceps. JBB