Just Shoot Me Now and Make it Quick

My work e-mail program is evil, devious, demented, cruel, and out to get me.
Whilst sending an e-mail to a judge, I misspelled the word "inconvenience," as in "sorry for the." Spell checker suggested "incontinence" and I accidentally ok'd it. Then, and imagine this part in horror-movie type slow motion, I watched as the program replaced the misspelled "inconvenience" with "incontinence" and sent the message. TO A JUDGE. (**If you have sensitive ears or are my mother, this is where you close your eyes**) shit. shit. shit. shit. shit. SHIT! fuck. shit, shit, shit! Out loud: "SHIT!"
Yes, I sent a message to a judge that said "sorry for the incontinence."
Oh. My. God.

The Source of the World's Ills

This morning, Moses drove over to the Coconino National Forest office to obtain a permit for cutting firewood. There are several permits for various uses issued by the Forest Service. However, the firewood permit is the only permit for which you cannot pay by credit card. That's right, you can pay for every other permit, except firewood cutting, by credit card. Of course, Moses did not have cash or a checkbook on hand and had to go find an ATM, and come back to the Forest Service office to buy the permit. Moses being Moses came home and railed (rightfully, but still, we all know how Moses enjoys a good rant) against the absurdity of the Forest Service not accepting credit cards for one kind of permit, but accepting them for every other permit.
So Moses is telling his story and going on and on.
Then Garion pipes up and you can see the light bulb go off in his head: "It's probably because of John McCain!" Yes son, I'm sure it is. And there you have it folks: brainwash early and brainwash often.

Yay Mom!

That's my mom. She's standing next to her painting that just won Best of Show in the Northern Arizona Water Color Society's 2008 Experimental Water Media Exhibition. It sold about five minutes after the awards were handed out. I'm really excited for my mom and also so happy that I got to drive down to Sedona to watch her accept her award. Here's a close up of the painting (my picture is crooked, not the painting). Click on the photo for a larger view and to see the really remarkable detail.

1/2 Marathon Switcheroo

Alight, I'm muscling through. I'm posting more because, in my imagination at least, posting more often will eventually result in better posts. I will be disciplined. I will flex my blogging muscles on a regular basis and I will hone my blogging skills. And I will become a brilliant blogger.
With that in mind, as promised: the 1/2 marathon switch. Long story short is that Imogene was really hard, I did nothing for about a week and half, then I went to Phoenix for a conference where I failed to get in a long run and then by that time I was too far behind to train for Big Sur as much as I would like. Also, running Big Sur requires buying a plane ticket, and booking a hotel and possibly renting a car, all of which for some reason cost money. Conveniently, Tucson has a nice 1/2 marathon race that is at a lower altitude (than Flagstaff) and is mostly downhill, and in December, which gives me another month to train. I love to run downhill. And, I know the course (or part of it) because I ran some of it last year in the marathon relay. So that's the story: I'm running the Tucson half rather than the Big Sur half. And now that I read it, it's not a very interesting story. I guess the better posts will not be starting immediately. Anybody want to run the Tucson 1/2 marathon with me?

Blogging about Blogging Because I'm a Dork

I had this idea, and if you look at my blog archives you see exactly when this idea occurred, that I was going to make a concerted effort to post more often. Did you look at the archives for September? Yep, last week was when I had this brilliant thought. The problem is, and there is always a problem, that I have run out of steam. I have some post ideas--there a couple Short Stack lists I want to talk about, I need to tell you all why I'm not running the Big Sur 1/2 Marathon, but have opted for the Tucson 1/2 instead (tomorrow maybe), and I've got a couple of Garion related things. So, there's material out there. I'm just lazy. Fundamentally and irrevocably lazy and therefore I am blogging about not blogging or more accurately procrastinating on real blogging by doing fake blogging. Which also makes me, fundamentally, a dork.