Home, Tedious, Video Response, Cows

So I picked Ali up at the airport yesterday.  Her flight was delayed so I used some of the extra time to run some errands.  I grabbed some dog food. went home and picked up the dogs, stopped at my mom’s to drop off an unemployment form she couldn’t print and then scurried off to the airport.

The cell phone parking lot was the fullest I had ever seen it.  The snowbirds have descended upon southwest Florida big time.  There has been a dramatic increase in congestion everywhere since the weekend.

I talked to Ali pretty regularly while she was up in PA so there wasn’t much she had to tell me.  It didn’t take long until our attention turned to the mountains of work that waited for us for the next few days.

When we got home I pulled out the frost cover materials for the garden.  I have to work late this evening so I wanted to make sure I had everything pulled out so either Ali or myself could cover the garden and it’s newly planted additions from this latest dreaded cold snap.

The rest of the night was just spent doing stuff.  Most of my night was consumed labeling and organizing the rest of the 500 extra timing chips for the race.  It was extremely tedious work, I was borderline ready to snap towards the end of it.  I justin.tv’d a brief portion of the process to illustrate how cumbersome it was. I still have to scan all 500 chips to get them into the timing system.

During the evening Randall sent me his first ever youtube video.  Although he has participated in a number of my own videos, he never made his own.  For some reason he was shy about it, making the video private so only invited people could see it.

I had challenged him the other day to see how long he could hold a wall handstand.  I told him that part of my handstand training has been 60 second holds.  Randall turned in a 55 second effort which wasn’t bad at all however he included excuses about his weight being a limiting factor.

Well I had to shoot a quick video response to obliterate any idea Randall had that his 55 second effort was equal to mine.  I used Ali’s Pampered Chef timer.  I set it to 73 seconds, allowing three seconds for me to get my feet up on the wall.  Holding my body weight for that long was not easy.  The last 20 seconds or so my shoulders started to shake but I held it until the beeper sounded.  I immediately posted it to youtube to set the bar a few feet higher.  You can see the attempt here.

I am sure when Randall shows up in late January a wall handstand hold competition will be in the works.

A had a weird dream the other night.  I only remember bits and pieces but here they are.

I was a judge for some show that was like Junkyard Wars, two teams made something out of everyday materials.  The one team’s object was pretty ordinary, I recall not being impressed, but I can’t remember what the object was exactly.

The other team included a pair of twins.  Their project was up in the attic of the house.  Access to the attic was quite difficult.  At the top of the steps I had to crawl through something that looked like mail slot.  Their item was definitely superior but again I can’t recall what it was.

I later find myself outside in an alleyway.  I am approached by a young kid with very dark skin and a mullet style hair cut.  I later find out this is one of Gary Del’Abate’s kids (bababooey).  Gary starts talking to me briefly but then about 6 or 7 nervous cows approach us in the alley.  Gary says “I have to go take care of these cows, they have anxiety issues.”

Gary disappears around the corner herding the cows away.  End of dream.