what is typhoon tea

I am seating here on the porch outside my brother’s neighbor  house. I came a bit early and there is no one here for 20 minutes more on a chilly night. The neighbor after asking me what I was doing here (lurking outside) invited me to her porch, and now went in and got me some hot typhoon earl grey tea, which is ok, but the warmth is great. I am underdressed for this weather.

Tried to do some work but no internet so nothing to do but blog.

 

I think i covered everything on the cruise. Let see, food, check, activities, check, rubber lady check, bingo, who cares, dancing check….

 

Next we had the excursions

1^st shore day was Roatan Hunduras. We got a driver for a cheap price, who drove us around the island. At first we went for the zip line. I have considered zip line to be the farshiest of the extremes-since you don’t do much but sit down. The last zip line I was on was amazing from the viewpoints it offered but was not all that exciting. But I soon found the other side of zip lining. Tricks!. Before I would sit, but in this place, they let us and actually expected us to experiment. You start with no hands, then lean back wards with totally trusting the wire, then sort of jump, act like superman, or simply lean back straight, it is hard to explain but you can do all sorts of things and that was awesome! It was 12-15 zip lines one after the other and other than one incident that I crashed into the guide, all was well. (the guide is fine now, but look like in some pain at the time,,,,we left him a tip).

After the zip line, we went into the monkey cages. the have capuchin monkeys, the same that Ross had. Tiny cute things. So I go in to the cage and try to seduce a monkey with a banana. This doesn’t work!, I guess they are going ape sh#t from all these bananas. I keep trying by standing close to them, till one of them jumps on my shoulder and poses to the camera. Another on joins and the 1^st stand on my neck and starts looking in my hair. I don’t have tics, or do I? the monkey continued doing things that wrong, i can now say I was molested by a monkey (not sure if it was male or female), eventually there were 3 monkeys on me doing forbidden things. After that I went to the parrots cage. Huge Jacko  parrots were there, but they let a smaller green one sit on your shoulder, one of them did and then my co pirate tried to seduce the parrot to her shoulder, the parrot resisted and moved to my other shoulder, I was laughing , it was funny, eventually the parrot gave up and Alla got her photo opp.

 

From there we stop for a quick rest stop and drove to a mangrove tour. We went in to little boats , and noticed that Maya, was left sleeping in the van! Lucky we noticed it before we took off, or we would have one unhappy kid. These small boats took us on the tour and we got to see lots of houses situated on the ocean, some on stills, about to fall and other more  fancy houses on top of the hills. Our boat was not shaded, and it was hot. The trip went on through a canal made by the mangroves; the roots were visible very clearly and the tops created a canopy, so it was a natural tunnel, a  unique experience. On the way we noticed a box from Wal-Mart Honduras , on the side of the canopy. The was not good, since Wal-Mart here, ruins the 3^rd world country experience; I wanted to take a picture of the box, but when we returned to that spot, few minutes late, it was gone! Since we seen no one there, it was bizarre; are Honduras people alien? Or just magicians, or just quick at box transfer; this will forever remain a mystery.

 

From there we went to the beach. This was a private beach, and a long island just close to the beach closes on it and creates a natural lagoon, with warm shallow water, and lots of palm trees which result in the ultimate relaxation beach. We swam to the other side of the lagoon and back (not that long), then played sharks. Sharks is a new game for me, a sort of tag (tofeset), but trying to escape 4 kids chasing you is not an easy task. After about an hour and some on the beach we went back to the ship and managed to buy a durable bag at one of the many markets.

 

We said our good bye to Honduras and returned to the mobile food fast.

 

 

The next days was underwater Belize.

You may Belize it or not but this country is under sea level. It is protected by a great barrier reef, so a bad storm can wipe them out…

Belizeans are scared from height (since they are so low) and from the cold (since its always hot) and they use the term refreshing to state that it is cold.

 

We took a touristic tour of cave tubing. I did such a thing once before in new Zealand and was looking forward for my most anticipated of excursions. Before we boarded the bus, a local woman came to us and introduced herself as charmaine and offered to braid the kids hairs. She was promising good service and asked the kids to look for her when the tour was done, the kids (maya, Pauline, misha and Arielle) stood next to me and charmaine kept referring to me as daddy, daddy don’t worry, daddy this and that… no one has called me that before…

A few minutes later 2 other braiders came and offered the same things then maya told them that charmaine said the same things, and then they started a monologue (duologue since there were 2 of them) that charmaine was not in the union, and so unsafe and blab bla bla. With a large group of anti union Russians, the no union was not the best argument to convince us. Charmain came again and we told her what the other 2 said, and she admitted not being in the union and said she is still better and don’t worry daddy…

 

Ok time to board again….

To be continued

 

 

and then charmaine called me daddy

Just woke from a powair shnutch

A power shnutch is defined as a quick but deep slumber, a powair shnutch is a deep but needed slumber from take off to beverage serving on the plane. And now hydrated with diet coke we can go on with business.

 

At 4:00 sharp, give or take a few minutes the previous Friday we left for Akron airport , with a furious attempt to avoid the rush hour which wasn’t bad and made it with plenty of time to spare. It was just a chance that in a Friday we were searching for a TGI Friday’s which was not there, but boarded the plane on time and exchanged planes in Atlanta, and arrived in ft Lauderdale just before midnight.

Then a 15 minutes wait to the shuttle, and away we went , and with an impressive short cut, came right back to the airport, so we waited for 20 more minutes. We headed south on the I-95 till traffic began to pile. Which is strange to see lots of traffic after midnight. We felt right at home from the many signs of road work and they closed the entire high way. This road goes all the way to new York and more and they just close all of it[ not the whole road, just a section].  So our shuttle took us through the Miami neighborhoods and our fellow shuttle passengers who were familiar with the area said that this is not a neighborhood you should go through , unsafe, but we had no choice, since we were not driving, but safely made it to Miami south beach to a milady smelly but nice hotel. We crashed and woke to a beautiful sunny day. It is now about 2-3 degrees in Cleveland and a sunny day is more than welcome. We jogged on the boardwalk for 40o minutes. While I was training for months, alla didn’t run in a few months and still she was running easily ahead of me while I was struggling to keep up ( and failed). My mom and moti were there as well and they were walking on the beach and tried to convince a cop that a live black cat was actually dead. The cat was simply napping on the boardwalk, unsacred by the many joggers and looked at ease as only cats can be.

In another part of the world, another cat managed to wake them up at night here in Miami. How is that possible you ask?

Well this is Tom, my mom’s cat and he is the master of the house. He has a spot that triggers the alarm, he goes there whenever he wants to go out and there is no one awake to open the door. So the security people called them.

 

After the jog, we went for a swim in the ocean. The water were not warm, but far from cold and we enjoyed the shark free water (if we didn’t see them , they weren’t there). afterwards we all went with Venezuela Cecil (she is my distant cousin by rescue (long story…another time)) to Lincoln street, which is a nice street with shops and restaurants and no cars. We had brunch at a middle eastern place for some good food. I had Bide, which is some kind of flat bread pizza, never heard of the dish  before and some humus like spread made from walnuts which was good.

We said goodbye to Cecil and continued walking the Miami strip, then came back to the hotel to rest, and after a dinner, we met Yaron, revital and the kids who just landed.

 

Later we went to check out the newest hotel on the strip which was rumored to be impressive, and it was. Water fountains, lights, you cannot really describe impressive, I guess you will have to wait for the photos. We went with the kids to a very fancy shmency bar that you don’t take kids to, and tried their chocolate cake which was excellent. Than everybody but us went home and we stayed to check out the scene (since when am I saying so check out so many times). This was a trendy place and lots of locals came to the dance bar, there was a silent completion on who wears the shortest dress and the highest hills.

 

Next morning we met for breakfast and took a shuttle to the cruise and met Inna, Igor, Dina, Aron and the kids (my family just got a lot bigger recently), and boarded the Norwegian jewel.

We went to our window less cabin on the bottom floor adjacent to the kitchen and the Laundromat (it was not really, but we laughed that it was). The cabin is small like any cruise cabin but the no windows thing was great, since we slept in every morning with no light to wake us up.

We took a personal tour of the ship which was smaller than previous ships I have been on, but this was Alla’s first cruise. We went to the Jacuzzi a couple of times and the pool only once the whole week.

Food is always the problem on a cruise so I made a deal with myself to avoid bread the whole week. It was tough since I love bread with butter, and they have lots of cakes, banana cakes and corn cakes which I love!, but I stayed away. Don’t get me wrong, I ate a lot, but bread makes it worse, since I eat more things with it. The cruise main problem was the ice cream, I ate so much! The food was good, not great, but good and a lot from it, server all the time.

 

In the afternoon of the 1^st day they had an on boarding party with line dancing and a conga line, with various dance to the sounds of Uprizing, the ships Caribbean band. They had 2 more sessions of line dancing, unfortunately they were identical repeats of the 1^st one, I don’t know why they can’t invent few more dances, it is less fun with the same things. They had games on the ship. We tried to volunteer for the ‘newly weds and not so newly weds game’ where they have 3 couple answer embracing questions and try to match answers, they took the most newlywed couple which was not us, a 20 year married couple and a 62yrs couple). The game was fun but had exactly, word for word the same questions they did on another cruise ship of another company. The lack of originality is my theme for this cruise. It seems like they try to be identical to others, so when you have to chose a cruise company, the company does not matter, only destination and price. I find it odd, but whatever…

 

The 1^st entertainer was aeeee – not great, some comedian who tried to hard, the 2^nd was great. It was a puppet and her handler. The puppet Mathilda made us laugh the whole cruise. They had a vocal band as well, a kind of new age barbershop quartet named the cats pajamas which was very good. We sang kareoki, I sang Delilah again, and Alla made her Karaoke debut  with a duet of “I want you to want me” which was good in the Corus, not so good in the rest, but I want to want her so we need to practice for the next performance.

The kids sang a few song including Yesterday and ghosts busters.

Both families were a great match from the get go, which was great to see and enjoy, you never know how these things turn out, but we were happy it was smoother then the calm ocean.

They had dance shows as well with the ships dance crew with lots of flip flops, dance and song with a Broadway style. But the most impressive was the rubber lady.

A couple of acrobats. The woman was probably Russian with rubber limbs. And made her body twist in unbelievable angles, you had to see it to believe it. In one move she held her legs while bending backwards and made a circle, then her partner held her up in mid air and dropped her on him. She dropped in this ring shape position and he opened his legs like a stop ramp and the ring stopped on the legs, I have no idea how someone can be this limber, but it was wow after wow.

We learned how to Cha Cha and how to fold napkins in different ways.

They had another sow of dancing with the jewel stars, some of us signed for that, but it was a raffle and we didn’t get in. so guests were dancing with the crew in a dance off and the winner was a 75 year old woman who dance pretty good in general and was shaking her grove thing. The next day they tough us how to swing, Alla chose to sun tan, and I went dancing with Marge, the 75 year old dancer. I am allowed to dance with other women if they are celebrities and a winner of a cruise dancing with the stars is a celebrity.

We went to a ping pong tournament on a windy table. Alla was playing with this kid who was trying to show off by playing Chinese style, he soon found out the showing off does not pay off and was creamed. I nervously defeated too others , and Alla beat another dude and we met face to face on our anniversary in the final. Sorry I am no gentleman when it comes to serious things like ping pong.

 

Which anniversary you ask, well it was a triple event- on November 23^rd.

It was our 2 weeks marriage anniversary, 6 months to the day since we got engaged and 18 months to the day since we started dating! How awesome is that!, I don’t think the stars will align so well in the future.

 

Landing now, this ends part one, and I didn’t get to charmaine…

 

 

how to insult 3 at the same time or why is my mate speaking to me

So, today I am going to use the facilities , for a number 1.

I usually don’t blog about this since I go every morning, evening and during the day depending on the amount of diet coke I am drinking, so this is not that big of a deal.

But today as I was , … well , I heard a voice coming from my mate, saying “hello Gil”, it was unusual since it never spoke before. I was trying to figure it out and looked bewildered.
till I understood.

Before I got in I must have hit the send button on the phone by mistake, which was in the front pocket on my jeans.

The voice was of Mat and not my mate.

So the mystery of the speaking mate has been resolved, and the mate remains mute.

 

We are no in the airport waiting for our flight to Atlanta, home of the inventors of the flight delay. The played “we didn’t start the fire” and my bride guessed Rod stewart. I corrected her saying it’s not Rod, but maybe Bruce springstin or probably Billy Joel, she said they all sounded alike, so she managed to insult all 3 of them at the same time. We did go last year to a rod steward concert, I guess we must go to the others, as a tutorial session (not because I want to go).

 

Oh I think we finally found our slow dance song, it is a difficult challenge and it is by one of the above 3 insulted. No names now, need to keep some surprises. We have a few nominees for the walking up to the Hupa song and no nominees for the the song right after. It is more difficult to chose than the DJ or camera man.

 

Last weekend after not running for 10 days during the marriage week, I was suppose to run 2 hours and 15 minutes. I ran this time before, but I was feeling heavy that morning. It was a hard run, knowing I have so much to run makes it harder. One of the other runners is over 50 and doing the same race. She is running and walking, and I am running all the way and yet she was always few steps behind, her walking speed is the same as my running!! I am that slow. But she helped me run, whenever she got to close I pushed myself ahead. I don’t think I could have ran that day by myself. But after 2 hours and 30 minutes I had completed over 11 miles (18 k) and felt great, and felt pain!.

Next day I hiked for few hours and close to the end managed to sprain my ankle. But unlike previous times, it was bloated just a bit and I can run again (we will see tomorrow), so I am still good to go for the race, with 2 weeks to go, to bad I am still behind my fundraising – so feel free to help http://www.active.com/donate/lv09neohio/vegas09GEven

 

 

I know I still have to describe the ceremony, but cannot do so on the same blog as me urinating.

So cheers

Were boarding…

 

 

 

little bit on goats, pink things and bicycles

Dear diary, it has been a while… so what new events occurred recently?

 

What is pink and spinning around?

Salmon in the microwave.

I have been eating more fish in the last season than 10 years before combined, and I like it. One day I took salmon to work and hit it up in the micro wave. Salmon as you know jumps against the current, and even after death it still knows no rest, the fish exploded in the microwave, scattering to every possible place. Took me minutes to clean it all. What ever was left on the plate (the less adventerous part of the fish) was good.

 

Haloween party took place on haloween , how bizzare. And my finace’e and I went to a party at the natural history museum. We went to a custom store to get a custom and tried on a few things. I knew what I wanted to be, but not how. My nick name on meetup- the site I do the hikes and other events with is the international man of mystory. I don’t know why I got that nick name, but since this party had about 80 people from meetup, it seems appropriate. So I had to be international – so I took a kilt, israeli sandals, scotish socks, irish flag, I coulndt find my brazil Tshirt , so I wore a lizard shirt (which become my undercover nick name for the evening), I wore kind of a clowny hat (should have brought a turkish hat), my green eyes glasses with fake eye lashes. Cut my beard in a weird shape- to fit both conditions where I would have to be shaved or bearded, and a tie for formal missions. I also were spandex which looked like garder belt, very sexy. To top it all I had an umbrella- as my cover.

The problem was that no one knows what the custome is, with out asking so its hard to get votes (there was a competition) and I didn’t win. Well next year… the level of cusotmes there realy amazed me. People invested time and effort and had great results. Even the band dressed up like the flinsttones. It was a fun night.

 

I also reach new peaks of endurance (peaks for me anyway), and broke the 9 then the 10 miles! Mark- 16k of non stop running. I was very much excited, with 24 days till the race-  I have only 5 k to go.

With fund raising how ever I am very slow. I stood 2 days last week infront of the sams club and asked for donations. This was approved by this huge chain, but first they came and told me I cannot ask any one in the parking lot, than that I must stand in a specific spot behind a table far from the exit door. You cannot ask money after people already spent a bunch on shopping, you must do it before they enter, while they still have money. So it was a cold, very cold actualy hours- so I am still far from my fundrasing goal.

 

Home work season has begun with finance and accounting courses- not very interesting, and orienteering season is about to end with the approaching winter. But ski season will soon begin, so something to look forward to.

I went to go get a bicycle. If you know me, you know I have a history with bicycle shopping. So I go and chose my bike at Dicks, it’s a big sports department store. The thing is that they inspect all the bikes for safety before they leave. But the guy who is doing that has swine flue! Poor me, I have to wait, and I do and call backa few days later and the forgot about my order and about me in genral. What a bunch of [enter store name here]. I went again last week, and chose another pair, agin they told me that the guy is not there (but he has recovered) and I should come again later, they wouldn’t event put the bike on hold. It’s a very unamerican store like behavior from them. I guess they are [store name].

So still looking for a bike, but my bike rack has arrived.

 

Recently we bought shelves to help arrange the fast filling room of stuff, now it realy is the room of stuff and it is stuffed.

 

We have seen an exhibition by gaugin at the museum of art. He is famous but not my style. Luckily they had another exhbition there which I liked more, same period 1850-1950 but more vareity.

 

The leaves are falling, there is almost nothing left, but the views this season have been out of this world. Days are hot sometimes, but mostly cold and it will be colder again.

 

I have once made a goat faint! That is easy when you are chasing a fainting goat, but regardless, we went to see the man who stares at goat. New movie with great cast. Very weird with a potential to become a cult movie. High marks for originality, and less, for ‘what the goat what that?’ Its an entertaining movie over all.

Couples retreat was a different story, simple romantic comedy, what ever you expect was there, but also entertaining.

 

That is all for now

Next update will be on the marrige and this very eventfull exciting week.

 

Cheers

And remember , if you look at the goat and it doesn’t faint, you didn’t try hard enough.

 

 

 

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welcome to chicago - where its always sunny, or into the mist

After the 12k last weekend, I was actually stupid enough to go for night orienteering at kandell lake. Last year I sent the most beautiful shots from the lake, the trees in all the colors of the fall, reflecting on the lake with a clear blue sky. That was before a night orienteering event as well. this time was different.

Cloudy skies hid the sun and the lake is gone!!!

How can you make a lake disappear?. There was a damn on the lake, for some unknown reason they opened it and let the water drain, leaving nothing but mud and a small puddle of water, so no reflection this year, too bed. But still, I had my event. 2 others joined me this time and we left quickly and ran large parts of the way. I was surprised that I could still run. This course was short and easy and we were done in 46 minutes which may be my first ever win in orienteering, it’s about time… still no results at this time. Then drove to the west side for a night of karaoke. Intern decided to stay home and study. I sang “ironic” and “mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmm” by the crash test dummies and managed to forget my debit card at the bar (had a sandwich….), this reminds me that I have to call them to get it back.

 

The next day went on a hike that wasn’t long by distance 9k but took a long time, 3 hours, we walked fast, so I guess the distance meter was wrong…or we walked slow. Though it was an easy hike, the combination of exercise this weekend was felt the next day. I also enjoyed watching terminal with tom hanks. Such a good movie, and Hanks makes the story believable. I would give him an Oscar, though I don’t think it did.

Finished a book lately Brisinger, which is the last book of a trilogy , started with Eragon (which was turned to a movie few years ago). I like the series, but the problem was that at the end of the 3^rd book, the series didn’t end… so the trilogy became a cycle, hoping the 4^th is the last, and want be like the wheel of time series, with 14 books that I was reading (as they came out) for more than a decade, and then the selfish author dies….what a nerve.

 

From cloudy cleveland I left this week for sunny Missouri.  At least it was sunny on Monday when we got there. I was traveling with my colleague happy camper. The week went well except the swine flu that hit this little town. With few wards of the hospital closed for quarantine, being there was unpleasant, and discussions on the vaccine were frequent- questions like- is this a government conspiracy? Is the vaccine safe etc…

On the drive to the hotel we spotted a large variety of wild life including: deer, raccoons, possums who decided to check my breaks and luckily survived, some nocturnal bird, perhaps an owl, Geese, a fox all the previous were alive and many more specimens of each dead on the side of the road (including a coyote, who wasn’t Wyle, if it did, it would still be alive). The roads in this area are in good condition but very narrow, and curvy since this area is hilly. Driving here at night, in the rain (came on Tuesday and never left)  was slow. And happy camper kept commenting on the way I drive but refusing to drive herself.

 

Like my last visit here I also chose a beetle, much to the annoyance of happy, who likes the comfort  of the bigger cars. I was thinking on the environment , we will see what we rent next time, mini cooper or SUV.

 

Now I am at Chicago airport waiting for my flight home to intern. I fell asleep on the plane as soon as it left the gate and woke up to see nothing but white. It was an impressive site of nothingness. There was nothing but white. I couldn’t even see a single cloud, it’s like we were flying in the mist. A picture of that would make the world hardest puzzle.

When we landed at rainy Chicago, the steward made the comment that appears in the subject line, their comments always make me laugh.

 

That’s it for now

8,5 miles this weekend, home work in finance and another hike are the main weekend plans

 

Cheers and way to go hapoel…

 

 

 

a little bit Endurance

Last weekend I went on a dreary morning for edge water park for my weekly training run.

We arrived at this place because it was the final hour of a national championship event.

A 24 hours endurance run.

Crazy people of all races, genders and ages run nonstop for 24 hours, I shit you not. We came at 8:30  and people were running, not just slugging along, their pace after 24 hours is still faster than my single lap speed. Top runners pass 140 miles. Winners from this race are going to the Olympics, so we have seen Olympians and world record holders. One of the runners was an 80 year old guy, who also ran nonstop, this was more than incredible. When their run ended at 9am, all the runners dropped and began to make sounds of people who just run 24 hours make, but they recovered fast enough. Then our group began running on the same tracks, this was a .92 mile loop (they ran this same loop nonstop, I would die of boredom) for an hour and fifteen minutes (the run is longer and longer week after week). When the run ended, I was just finishing 10k YEH, first time since the injury. But lots of cramps. And next I did something I should not have done and went orienteering. It was a 7k course in the lovely woods of cleveland. In orienteering the course is what they say if you go straight from point to point. I don’t do that, since I like to avoid trees, brush, and hills- so its longer, not sure by how much, but 4 hours later (unusually long this time) we finished the course, found everything , but my legs were in bed shape. Later that evening, I was reading on the pooch when I got a bad cramp in one leg, the kind you get some time in the night after too much exercise. I began messaging my leg and trying to undo this pain, then the other leg cramped, first the quad, then a few seconds later the calf. So I couldn’t move and was in quite a bit of pain. Now when you have a cramp in the thigh, your kind of want to bend your leg, and for a cramp calf, you want to straighten it to release the cramp. But when you have both, man you are screwed. I was with both my leg half bent, messaging hard, each movement , no matter how small gave me more and more pain from the perspective muscels. After a time which felt like forever but must have been 5 minutes the pain went away. I was limping for 3 days after that.

Week after there was suppose to be a 10 k race, and us fund raising runners were suppose to participate as a practice run. I left early, but to the wrong place (there was a marathon also, and 2 launch sites) and I went to the wrong one, by the time I manage to get in, the race has begun and I missed it. Which was a good thing, since I was hiking the day before at Chardon area (photos soon) and the leaves are amazing. We did 7 miles walk, which is a lot but not too much. So 2 heavy events would cause cramps so lucky that I missed it.

Few hours after my missed run, I went to a scavenger hunt. I do love my hunts. This one was different. We went to case western, a local university with a big campus. And the hunt was to find pieces of information about certain building; like find some specific sculpture and write who built it, this kind of mission. But there were many of them in a short time. The cleveland art museum is right there and we had to track specific works of art. We kind of snuck in the museum, even though I am a paid member, we still actually just walked in. we visited the botanical gardens, various shops and at the end we had to drink a double shot espresso. As you know, I hate coffee in any form, shape or maker( don’t even like mocha) so that was a bad bad bad tasting drink from star bucks. I was wise to get a chaser (a big glass of hot chocolate) which was good, but did not totally diffuse the coffee taste. I didn’t know case western very well, but others in my team did and we hustled and got many missions completed, I was sure we won, but came a close second.

 

Last night we went country line dancing. I did line dancing before in Israel, but not country style. It was always hard for me, I am losing the rhythm very quickly and its difficult for me to keep up, but it is still fun. But last night was advanced. They move so gracefully and they turn so many times and fast. I was out of my league. We did have fun, the music was good. I knew some of the oldies songs, but only 1 dance (electric slide) which I danced here, but to the music of latino’s. need to improve on the dancing part for June.

 

Feeling like a pin cushion lately. After my physical we went to the immigration doctor, who so me for maybe a minute, then I got another shot of tetanus. My last shot was 3-4 years ago after being hit in a head by some ugly brute on the side lines of my last rugby match. So now I have so many antibodies in me, that my shadow is immune to tetanus.

I an hour I will go get the results of my TB test. I seem to have no TB which is good, after that all the green card paper work and tests are done….finaly……. now we submit (after the cruise) and wait patiently.

 

Results of my last school exam came with a 79 in my business strategy course, and just like the biology degree, I seem to be able to get many 79s, not sure how this happens, but I had many courses with this result. Now I am taking accounting and financing, both tedious , and difficult course.

 

Today was another weekly run. 2 days ago I ran/walked 5 miles at the gym and I wasn’t sure I was ready for today. It was a cold morning, so I ran with my work gloves and something which is not a hat that covers the ears. I guess I was ready after all. Ran 2 miles, walked 0.5 till I got to a much needed sudden nature break. Then ran 5 miles more…. My longest straight run since the injury and my longest ever weekly run. 12k!. this morning I was finally feeling like I can actually complete the Vegas half marathon in December. Just have to make sure I will not injure myself. Next week 8.5 miles…(13.6k).

 

Got to go soon, also getting a much needed hair cut. need to look good for the weddingJ

 

More updates as soon as I can write them, cheers