PLANET3RRY

I just wanted to let everyone who reads this blog… that means The Cool Kids that things should be back to normal blogging operations, that’s NBO for you military types who need the acronym.

I have just finished up some freelance statistical work. Yes, I do statistical work for fun… actually this was for cash-money. So, if you need your statistics analyzed, keep me in mind! Statistics: Only God knows the answer (for certain).

No PhotoHunters
This past week’s theme was SAD. I didn’t have a picture to submit, much less the time to post it, but the picture I was going to take was that of a bottle of Chewable Fiber Tablets, because it has a security sensor on it. Think about that… the chewable FIBER has had enough theft to warrant putting the security sensors (like in DVDs) on it. Not the Fiber mix… the chewable tablets.

“Honey, we gotta go pick Gramps up from The Wal-Mart, seems like he’s been trying to lift the BeneFiber Again!”

*****

“Son, you better put that bottle back or you are going to be in a world of shit”

“Officer, you wouldn’t know… you wouldn’t know.”

No Success Sunday
I didn’t have time for a Success Sunday either… although I would have to say something to the effect of “Fresh Eyes can provide great insight” or something like that. Short-Short version: The Elder threw his glasses in a direction of tree and brush past a barbed wire fence. I braved chiggers, ticks, snakes, poison ivy, yellow jackets, gang green, etc to look for those high-dollar glasses. After 20 minutes a fresh pair of eyes found them underneath the car he was standing close to when he threw them.

Sometimes, “when you are in the forest, you can’t see the glasses on the other side of the barbed wire underneath the car” and you can QUOTE me on that.

What I Owe you:
I owe you the Big South Fork Race Report, my week of running, some photo safari, the fresh GF pizza place. I am sure there is more, but if I overwhelm myself, you get to read NOTHING because I will never get to it all.

So, Happy Monday. I need to go organize.

Step to the rhythm, step to the ride
I’ve got an open mind so why don’t you all get inside
Tune in turn on to my tune that’s live
Ladies flock like fish to my line
Hey Ladies, Get Funky
-Hey Ladies by the Beastie Boys from Paul’s Boutique 

If breasts aren’t being used to sell something… the color pink is reminding us to help erradicate breast cancer. Just for the record, I am breast supporter… yes, I am pro-boob. Well, the following came across my “Deal” Feed. It’s a way that you can get your mammogram and get a little pampering afterwards. From what I understand the mammogram machine does NOT have the best bedside manner and does a lot of “squishing” (more than a guy on prom night). So, here is a way to get that “womanly” exam and a little pampering. Oh, it is a Marketing Ploy, so you might have to buy do something to get it:

Get your mammogram and receive a complimentary professional salon service. Simply fill out the form below
to get your certificate for a free service. To find a participating salon in your area, click here to enter your zip code. Participating salons will be listed in pink.

You can also support the fight against breast cancer by purchasing Privé Thermal Protection Detangling Spray. For every can of our 6 oz. Thermal Protection Detangling Spray sold between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009, Privé Professional Products will donate $1 to Expedition Inspiration (www.expeditioninspiration.org). The purpose of The Expedition Inspiration Fund for Breast Cancer Research is to raise awareness and monies to benefit breast cancer research through research project funding, public education, and patient support.

Here is the page that this is from: http://www.priveproducts.com/index.php?_function=mgmcert

• My Dedicated Melanie-In-Law
  • DONATE to CITY of HOPE (her place of research)
  • DONATE TO MARNI FUND (one of her grant sources)
• Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation
• Susie B Komen

Plus a couple NSFW sites that are ligitamate but I don’t want to get anyone in trouble.

Don’t forget to do your Monthly Self-Exam!!! (or have someone do it for you)

Nobody Can Resist the MANGO

I saw this while running sometime back and well, I couldn’t resist taking a picture!

Deb!

Deb wins great CRAP for her guess of 3:13:13 for the Big South Fork Trail Race!

She Wins:

• A RAZZLES candy MAGNETIC memo pad
• Bendable Monster to commemorate her victory in guessing my time

and another surprise that I have to dig out of my workshop reach into the surprise closet to get. All I would need from Deb MUHAHAHA is her mailing address MUHAHAHA.

The next contest will be a double, NO, make that a triple-dipple contest. I’ll have the details, but it’ll be something like:

1) Guess The Rutledge Marathon Time

2) Guess The Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon

and/or

3) Enter in a combined total for BOTH marathons

This is give you a chance to in guess each marathon twice! And I will have 3 winners!

I am thinking that the prize for #3 will be something slightly better than CRAP like a ROAD ID or perhaps a gift certificate or something else… or maybe a choice depending on whether the winner is a runner or not.

It's Her Birthday Too!

She's 74 now...

Yes Ms. Bardot and I share a birthday, but she has a few years on me. Surprising this year, I was not really anticipating my birthday all that much so when I woke up, I wasn’t all giddy or anything like that. Even later in the day, it was still like another Sunday. I guess because it’s one of the mid-year birthdays “37″ when not a whole lot happens or is associated with the number.

I got a bunch of cards made by The Younger, a rain check on some camping stuff from My Lovely and Talented Wife and The Kids. Our Reliable and Resourceful Au Pair gave me a basket of Chocolate Candy and Smarties - YUM! A couple of cards in the mail, a number of well-wishing emails and a French Press and gift certificate to a local coffee shop.

I wasn’t on a computer for the weekend, so I need to make the donation to the NMSS in memory of my biological father (as opposed to my dad aka Pa-Pa for new readers) who passed away in 2006 due to complications resulting from Multiple Scelrosis.

Other Celebs that share their birthday with Mr. Terry

Past Year’s Posts:

Wish Gwyneth A Happy Birthday

The New Age Group

The Not-So Happy Birthday 8k

This Birthday Sponsored by “33″

Back to the Carbs

Birthday

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

––Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Find out How to Post your own Success Sunday!

This week has been topsy-turvy to say the least…

My Lovely and Talented Wife has been sick for most of the week. We took her to the doctor’s on Thursday and walked away with 4 prescriptions. Since this ailment had been around for (what we determined) to be about 2 weeks, the doc covered all the bases, hence the 4 prescriptions. What pushed her into succumbing to going to the doctor was the 8 hours of coughing, oh… make that continuous coughing. Thursday night, she slept sans hacking for quite a while. She was still really tired Friday morning, but that was because her body is playing catch-up (not mustard).

I had been hoping for one more run during the week before Big South Fork, but I didn’t get it. Actually there was a small period of time where I didn’t feel quite right and to avoid actually making it worse, I took it easy. The run was to calm my nerves more than anything else (being so close to race day), so not exposing myself was the smarter thing to do… and I like smart.

So Sunday is my Dennis Birthday. I know 99.9999% of you are thinking - “What the F*&*%&$”. Don’t worry, it’s just my quirkiness in the effort to nickname anything and EVERYTHING. So, with this being my 37th birthday, this is my Dennis Birthday. I’ll have a post for Sunday night (post-Success Sunday) that will explain why it is called “The Dennis Birthday”. If you want to try to sleuth the answer, I will give you a hint: My 33rd birthday was my Rolling Rock Birthday.

This Week’s Theme: View

TIMBERRRRRRRRRRR

This picture was taken with my mobile phone, so please excuse the graininess of the picture. The view is of a tree in the twilight of it’s life during the twilight of the day. This is my neighbor’s tree that died sometime last fall (there were a few leaves still on the branches) and is now being taken down.

The view is right from base of the trunk looking up. The remaining light of the setting sun is in the lower right hand corner. The next day, the trunk was lying upon the ground ready for it’s next stage of it’s recycling death as mulch or firewood.

Have a Great Week!

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Howdy neighbors! This week has been crazy and so this is posted a little later than normal. Hopefully there will be enough time to try for all the glory that comes with winning cool prizes crap.

It’s Race Week and it’s time for another contest! Here are the Rules:

1) Leave a time you think I will complete the Event as a comment to this post.

Event: Big South Fork 17.5 Mile Trail Run website

2) You can enter as many times as you want, but only your most recent entry based on the timestamp will be your official guess

3) This will be an Over/Under format, meaning that you time will count whether your time is over or under my official time

4) You can enter as long as Comments are allowed for this post, which is typically through Race at some point, but seeing we will be camping, you might get a little extra longer to post guesses.

Big South Fork is on Saturday Sept 27th at 8:30am

5) The Official Time as reported at the event website will be the End-all-Be-all result. Should no result be posted, then my watch time will be used

Results for this Event are (eventually) posted at: RACES RESULTS WEBSITE

6) Winners will have to send me their postal address to gain their prize. Giving me their address subjects them to such things as world domination, Christmas Cards, and other random items (and sometimes embarrassing items) sent to their homes.

7) There are no restriction for past winners… Enter and Win and Enter Again.

All submissions must be made as a comment unless you are technical incompetent, then I will accept other forms of submission such as carrier pigeon, smoke signals, tea leafs, chicken bones, etc

9) Is my favorite number, so I wanted the Rules to go to 9, so, uh, have fun!

The Crap Prize for which you are competing is:

Undetermined CRAP at this point

Stuff to help you in your guess:

Historic Big South Fork Times:

Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-9-1999 17.5 m 3:00:15
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-14-2000 17.5 m 2:51:25
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-6-2001 17.5 m 3:04:40
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-2-2004 17.5 m 3:10:29
Big South Fork Trail Run Sep-29-2007 17.5 m 2:56:26

Today has been a rollercoaster…thankfully as I write this I am on the Up and Up.

This morning, we had a meeting in reference to The Younger and his evaluation. Basically, we learned that he is at least just above average in everything BUT social development… He’s on the lower end of the scale but still statistically “normal”. The part that we liked was that the people there said that they liked working with us (previously with The Elder). Go US! Also plugged ASDa pretty hard there and now have 3 shirts to give away.

So, that was cool. Then this afternoon, I had a brain doc appointment to get a refill on my anxiety meds (which I was going to decrease dosage) and also to get some ADHD meds. Although I am not “textbook” ADHD and have functioned for 36 almost 37 years without meds, the ADHD would have made this A-/B+ student to be an A+ student. There were a few things that were rough around the edges that would have made me SUCH a better student… and now a better husband, dad, Kick Ass Friend, etc…

WELL, as luck would have it, some people got into a car accident right off of campus. A TWO ambulance wreck and so basically, I was late getting onto Alcoa highway to get to the Doc’s office. I took a gambleand tried to take a short cut, but after some miscommunication, there was no way that I was going to make it and so I was rescheduled.

I was PISSED! My “plan” as I devised since I had made the appointment 6 weeks ago was to leave work early ON Terry Day and then go to the Smoky Mountains and trail run IN THE MOUNTAINS, as a precursor to this weekend’s Big South Fork 17.5 Trail Run. Plus, I wasn’t going to get the meds that I wanted until Monday, but that was okay… my running plan was foiled. “Technically” my time schedule was intact because I was free at the time I thought that I would be free… but I was PISSED because the Routine had been broken. So I got a Diet Coke and Candy Bar and went back to work because I didn’t want to waste the hours on my time sheet.

Back at work, I did a few things before packing up to go run because I decided that even though my plans had been destroyed that I would still run at Lakeshore, 2 loops for 4.2 miles. This way, I would have more time to run errands. Well, driving to Lakeshore, I decided that I really didn’t want to run that far. I wanted something easier to get to, and a shorter distance to run.

So, I decided to go to one of the entry ways to 3rd Creek and run 3 miles. Easy enough… or so I thought. I park the car and I changed clothes in the parking lot. And I go get my shoes… I go get my… shoes. I go… (*&$%*(&$(*&%$ WHERE ARE MY SHOES! I quickly deduce that I have NO shoes, except for my dress shoes and my crocs. [MANAGEMENT HAS EDITED THIS POST TO COMPLY WITH REGULATIONS]

Oh, NO! I WILL NOT BE DENIED. I will run TONIGHT! So what do you do when you don’t have any running shoes. Well, one option is to run in socks… but that would destroy perfectly good socks. Okay, you could run with barefoot. Barefoot? Only weirdos and crazies run barefoot. Oh wait, that’s weirdos and crazies are runners… shoes are just an option. Okay… let’s run…sans shoes.

But there is NO way I am running 3 miles. So, I opt for 2 miles. Running on 3rd Creek Greenway is pretty smooth for an asphalt surface, I had little problem running. One thing was that at first my stride was as if I had shoes on. This was a little tough on the feet,but I quickly changed my stride to accommodate no shoes and things got alot better.

I did get a rock “stuck” in my foot that required me to stop and knock it off. One thing that I did notice was that hills “felt” differently. It wasn’t that they were easier, but they felt smoother in accelerating up them. Also with going down them.

I ran the first mile in 8:26, which is faster than some of my lunchtime runs. That may have been a little fast, because I could tell that my feet were getting beaten up… it was asphalt I was running on. So, I changed my 2 miles to just 1.5 miles.

I ran my last 1/4mile in 1:39! I then put on socks to mediate further injury and walked to my car (about 0.3 of a mile away). I ran for about 12 minutes, but that is exactly what I needed! I felt great and my feet are a little beaten up, but I’ll give them a little TLC and they’ll be golden for Big South Fork this weekend.

Speaking of Big South Fork… Wednesday, I will put up the Guess My Time, Win Crap Contest for this race.But until then, here are two pictures of my running shoes and my (current as of this post) Facebook Profile, since I was actually HAPPY again!

I will definitely have to wash them NOW (clickie to make stinkie, I mean Biggie)

See, my new haircut! (click to make big)