If you are a dreamer, come in.

This morning, I woke to realize that I had been dreaming of a Shel Silverstein poem. I know it's Shel Silverstein because I can clearly picture the drawing that accompanied it, and it's that semi-creepy, lumpy, pen-and-ink style of "Where the sidewalk ends".

Anyway, the poem was entitled "Sandra Dactylee", and it was about a teenage girl that text messages all of the time, and whose thumbs have turned into the keys of a typewriter.

I can't remember the whole thing, but I know the rhyme.
The first line ends in Dactylee,
The second line ends in "back to me" (as in, "she always stood with her back to me")
and the last line ends with "typewriter keys".

It's very silverstein-like, don't you think? I seem to remember that most of those poems were about kids that misbehaved, and ended up having some kind of grotesque deformity as a result.

The problem is, there's no way that it could be a poem that exists. Shel's last book was 9 years ago, and text messaging barely existed then.

So, I must conclude that I made up a brand new Shel Silverstein poem in my sleep, and I can't remember how it goes.

You Tube Dance Party

Some of you may have seen this elsewhere, but Heather insists that we participate in the sharing:



And then there's this:

Milky, Milky Cocoa

The song "My Humps", by the Black Eyed Peas just came my itunes mix. For those of you not familiar, it's a touching lyrical exploration of the "junk inside that trunk" and "lovely lady lumps". Don't ask what it's doing on my computer. It just came on. I don't know anything about it.

Anyway, when it started, I walked over to the computer to switch songs, and Pete said, "NO! I like this song!"

2 doses

Dose 1: When Nora was a baby, the only way she tolerated being held was facing frontwards. Now, when I call her over for a hug, she'll totter over to me, stop two feet short, turn around and back in for the hug.

Dose 2: Pete likes to go fast in the car, and he'll ask us for it. Yesterday, he asked Heather to go fast, paused, and said, "Mom, I wish Police tickets were good."

Rapid City, SD

I'm on my 10th or 11th work trip so far this year. I can't remember. I think that I've watched "Mega Structures" on the Discovery Channel at least 5 times this year, all in hotel rooms.

At Ellsworth Air Force Base, there is a men's bathroom with a urinal that was installed a couple of inches higher than normal. Underneath the urinal, there sits a footstool with a piece of paper taped to the top. The paper reads,

One step for small man,
one cleaner bathroom for mankind.

We'll be listening to Lawrence Welk

Heather says that tomorrow night we're having old people dinner:

Tuna Noodle Casserole and Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Actually, my trendspotter recently reported that Pineapple Upside-Down Cake is getting hip again.

Uncovery #8

Incredibly Cute Video:

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Thanks to Becky

Action Shots #11

We successfully resisted* the temptation to get a mini-van and instead, we bought a new Subaru yesterday.

Here it is:


*Actually, we came perilously close to buying a mini-van, actually driving up to Denver, test driving it, and making an offer. Then, we nicknamed it "Turd" and realized that we hadn't fallen in love with it, and it wasn't that good a deal anyway.

Uncovery #7

Cool Honda Civic commercial where all of the sounds of a car are beautifully imitated by a choir.

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The graphicals

I'm stuck in South Carolina while my baby teeths at home. It bugs.

But I made some graphs of my run. Because I'm obsessed with graphs and charts.

The first shows my split times during the run. The line is my cumulative time. The bars are the times for each split.



This next one shows my speed over the course of the run, compared with my goal and last year.



This last one is the big daddy. I was watching it grow all year. It shows every run I've done this year. All 101. The pace per mile is graphed on the vertical axis, and the date is on the horizontal axis. The width of each inner circle corresponds to the distance of the run. The distance between the inner and outer circle shows the elevation gain of the run.





And here's something extra.

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