If you look Monday it’s easy to trace.
Southpaw Jones presents
Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
Dozens of birds are mysteriously dead on Congress Ave. in Austin this morning. The street is closed, and workers have been asked to stay home until noon. Note to self: Bring BB gun to office tomorrow; sleep in on Wednesday. Seriously, though, it is a little scary. Let’s hope this isn’t our canary in the coal mine.
Happy Monday, folks, and thanks for returning to southpawjones.net. Today, I’m launching something new. Like most folks, I’m trying to be more active in 2007, trying to exercise regularly, trying to make sure there’s less Southpaw to love. Since last Tuesday, thanks to a treadmill at the office, Gold’s Gym, and the Town Lake Hike & Bike Trail, I’ve run/walked 30 miles! That, my friends, is something I’ve never done in the span of 6 days.
I do five miles at a time, not pushing too hard, just trying to get it done in under an hour. Since I’m hoping to make this a habit, I decided to make a little game out of the whole thing. It’s called the Southpaw Jones 2007 Excursion Des Pieds! The idea is this: I’ll take the miles I’ve traveled locally, add them up, and start heading out of town with them. Virtually, of course. Take last week, for instance. I earned 30 miles on treadmill and trail, and since I’m on foot, I can use those miles as the crow flies. That brings me as far as Taylor, Texas!
Welcome to Taylor, Southpaw! Thanks, Southpaw! How many folks live here? Oh, about 15,000. Taylor hosts the intersection of the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad lines. Yee-haw! I think I’ll hunker down here ’till next week.
Bill Passalacqua presents
I am not a smoker…
One man’s reasons for not lighting up in ‘07:
…because I don’t want to smell like an ashtray.
Jan. 4th, 2007
…because I like to exercize and when I smoke, I’m less inclined to exercize. I don’t know why this is the case, only that it is the case.
Jan. 5th, 2007
…because I sat in the hospital and watched my Uncle Don die of lung cancer 10 years ago.
So far, I have saved $27 not buying cigarettes*
Jan. 6th, 2007
*(Pack a day at $4.50/pack)
…because smoking is bad for the people around me.
So far I have saved $31.50 (7 days, pack a day, $4.50/pack)
Today will mark one week of not smoking.
Jan. 7th, 2007
…because I have burnt enough holes in enough furniture and upholstery for a lifetime.
I have saved $36 so far by not smoking (8 days at $4.50/pack)
Jan. 8, 2007
Southpaw Jones presents
Online Museum of the Week
Quotation Mark Abuse!:
Southpaw Jones presents
Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:
People forget the feeling of having to go to school on Monday and take a test in physics that you don’t understand at all.
Molly Ringwald
Southpaw Jones presents
If I Had a Million Dollars
Unnecessary products that inexplicably tempt me:
Coffee Maker with Weather Forecast
$199.99
Thank you, come again!
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January 8th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Keep not smoking Bill.
Keep walking Paw.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
[…] Let’s catch up on the Southpaw Jones 2007 Excursion Des Pieds! As you may recall, last week, I started taking the miles I ran/walked on treadmill/trail, and sending my virtual self out of town with them. My first stop out of Austin was Taylor, Texas, and now I’ve earned 27 fresh miles, bringing me to rest in Rockdale! […]