Klutz player

On this, the day New Amsterdam was surrendered to the British in 1664, I am surprisingly wound free.
Yup. I fell off my bike again. It was actually two days ago. I did a total somersault on my bike. Lucky I was on a grassy part at the time. Apart from some grass stains I couldn't believe how unscathed I came out of it. I think I'm getting good at making potentially catastrophic falls look graceful. Key is to smile when you get up. When I fell of shiny bike a while ago my adrenaline took off and I felt funny and really shaky, then I was soooo tired later. This time though it was nothing so exciting, though it probably looked more exciting than the shiny bike incident. I wasn't even going to write about it, except that today I took a header down some stairs at school (this time I wasn't riding a bike), and again came out generally unscathed, which I thought was strange because it was on concrete and I just had a t-shirt on. Well, I was wearing pants too.... and shoes.

Event horizon

Holy smokes. You know that scene in Joe v. Volcano where Joe is dying on his suitcases in the Pacific, and the moon is super huge on the horizon. I used to wonder if the moon ever actually appears big like that. Someone told me once that the gases of the atmosphere can act like a magnifying glass because the light is passing through lots of it when it is near the horizon. I was like, yeah... could happen, but probably only on the Pacific. That is until Friday night. I was driving back to Peterborough from band practice and the moon was HUGE!! It wasn't a full moon like the movie, and it kinda looked yellowy. But it was huge. I almost drove into the ditch. It didn't last long though. In a few minutes it was up higher and already not nearly as impressive. Just thought I'd share.

Decision making criteria

So today I'm having 80's overload. In my first class, a guy used a Ferris Bueller clip, and if you check out today's Dinosaur Comics, there is some excellent 80's references. Like Choose Your Own Adventure books, that many an ill fated grade 9 student tried to use for ill fated book reports. But T-Rex has a point. I also get that giddy feeling when using 80's references, even though It pains me to admit my pop-formative years were the 90's.

Enduro

So yesterday I ran a race. 15 km. Here's the results. Just two minutes faster and I could have won the geriatric category. I'd also have to age 30 years for that. The winner, Serghei Logvin, finished in 57 min 48 sec. That kid is fast.
See all the results... or the race website here.

King Henry VIII

Well... I'm a tutor.

Gym Jam

Well.. I've started to go to the gym again. Suddenly, with this new semester I seem to have some spare time. The weather is being a bit cooler, and its getting darker earlier. Stupid fall. Lets skip to winter. I mean It sucks doing anything outside in the fall 'cause its too cold. At the same time, its not cold enough to do any fun winter stuff. Oh and there's the grey, bleak, dying nature bit.
What was I saying? Oh, something or other about closed captioning. The other day I watched Federer beat Jokovich in the US Open semi-finals. The closed captioning was not particularly necessary, but Johnny Mac is as excellent in CC. Now I want to play tennis.

Ambidextrous

I've just moved into a new place. No longer haunting an underground layer (it shall ever be spelled thus). The dish rack is to the left of the sink.
At my old place, when I visit my mom's place, and at the cottage it's all two sinks with the dish rack on the right. A guy could get used to that.
Lucky for me I have the skills to shake left.