Our trainer cancelled our track workout tonight due to high heat and humidity. Oh yeah... we like her. In its place I did a quick air-conditioned treadmill workout, threw in some abs, and was showered before 7. Nice. 

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I miss the days of paying bills by dropping a check in the mail. This morning I received two e-mails from an Internet Account provider. The first said the annual payment for my account was due (true) and my account would be charged $1890.00.

Umm... hello what? The message went on to say that the expiration date on my supplied credit card was incorrect and the transaction couldn't go through. Thank God.

The next message said...

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I stopped eating red meat and pork in 1988. I initially did it on a trial basis, just to see if I could. Surprisingly, I never missed it and never had any desire to go back.

Cutting out chicken and turkey, which I did around 1995-96, was harder. Blair and I ate a lot of chicken-based meals together, finding food at a Wendy's or McDonald's became more of a challenge and frankly, Thanksgiving without turkey meat sucks. (I tried Tofurkey which is similar in taste and texture to regurgitated stomach snot. Don't do it.)

I always planned to either cut out or ease back on seafood, which I haven't yet. I love me some crabcakes and lobster! But I watched an episode of Hell's Kitchen...

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I could get used to this. Blair's office has gone to summer hours which means they work longer during the week but get Friday's off. Since he works 10-11 hour days as a norm, the "long" hours don't bother us and it's great having him home on Friday's. It's like having my own personal man servant around the house. This morning he already went to the bank, dry cleaners, and store, and he's taking the girls to the vet at 10:30 to get their nails trimmed.

I'm sitting in the library and I noticed a bulb in the light above me had burned out.

"Honey," I called, "Can you change the light?"

Bam-boom, light changed and best of all, Princess didn't have to move a muscle.

I wonder if I can con him into fixing lunch....

My friend Dave wore a t-shirt to our run the other day that's too good not to share. It had two big cartoony buzzards sitting atop a telephone pole, looking down at a bunch of runners below them. The pole had a sign taped to it reading, "Mile 24." One buzzard turns to the other and says, "This was a good place last year."

Love it!