Ouch, surprise, letter

by Duf Anything and Everything

We did our run last night, Ali relented and ran with me.  We did our long run, close to 4.75 miles.  During the run I felt some discomfort in my bad knee but I was warm enough that it didn’t make me stop.  However once we finished it was hurting.  I iced it last night but woke up this morning with one very sore knee, probably the worst it has been since we started running.  I’m sure there are tie ins to the creatine.  Since I started it I have gained close to ten pounds of body weight which increases the pounding on my knees.  Even so, I took my heaping teaspoon of creatine this morning.  I want to set a new personal best with my bench press so I am willing to deal with the knee pain for now.  I may switch to a different type of creatine that supposedly offers less of the undesirable side effects.  I may switch to Endothil CR as well.

My neighbor IM’d me yesterday and said there were people working on our lanai yesterday.  I was surprised to hear this since I was told the work wouldn’t be done until the earliest, the end of May.  When we got home we saw that they removed the last of the damaged cage and installed new gutter along the back of the house.  We were happy to see some work done although confused why it was done now.  I’m not sure if the rest will still be done at the end of may or if we somehow got moved up on the ladder.  The only downside is the removal of the old cage remnants left a gap in my temporary fence enclosure on both sides.  I’ll have to rig something.

Even though I pretty much despise the Republican party anymore, I am still a registered republican.  Being a member of the party allows me to get junk mail from them.  Yesterday I got a letter from President Bush himself asking for money to help support the 06 republican elections.  The letter repeated the bullshit we hear W say on the news.  The postage paid envelope even suggests that you use a stamp to further save the party money.  So I took the letter and wrote on the back with a black Sharpie:

Dear President Bush,

Thanks for steering the country into the toilet! Go to HELL. Your presidency is an embarrassment to the American people.

Sincerely,

America

I put one penny in the envelope, sealed it and sent it back, without a stamp.