Some friends of mine did the big 3-day Breast Cancer Awareness walk this past weekend. Pretty cool - they had a great time, and dressed up for the event. Pictured below, Leslie, Steven, and Sienna.

What's on Leslie's hat? Yeah, that's an ear. She and Sienna are finishing up schooling for PhD's in Audiology. Their catchphrase for the event? "hEAR's to boobs! We walk til it Hz!" Like I said, truly awesome. Steven dressed up as the Pink Lantern. That might be better than the Elf. Steven volunteered on the crew for the walk, so he played traffic cop daily - what if you saw this on your sunday drive to church?

A couple weeks ago I had to go out to Washington, DC for work. That was cool, as I had just finished track nationals so I had some spare time on my hands. It was doubly cool, though, as I got do hang out with my buddies in DC and go backpacking on the Savage Mt Trail in western Maryland over the weekend. It was pretty brisk temps for this SoCal dude, but it was probably only in like the low 50's. Wow.

We hiked to the top of the mountain just to see what was there

- and eat some lunch, of course.

And we got to see this :

And this...

Pretty sweet. I do miss the lush forests sometimes - you just don't have those around San Diego. Photos courtesy of our camera sherpa,

Wes Leong.

OK, so just as things were getting rolling in the off-season training, I managed to injure myself. Nothing life threatening (that's a nice change) - I've got an enflamed achilles tendon (AKA tendonitis) in my left ankle. It arose a couple of weeks ago from overuse, I guess, and I've been taking it pretty easy since then - mostly just resting, icing, etc. Tried a short ride this past Wednesday and it started hurting after only 5 minutes. Ridiculous - time to see the doctor. Doctor Richburg races down at the track with me. He checked it out - said it would be fine, just needed some physical therapy to strengthen the area. Prescribed 500 mg pills of naproxen (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) twice a day.

dr : Do you have any stomach problems?
me : Nope.
dr : Good, cause you just need to be careful with these - they're not miracle pills - eat immediately after you take a pill, otherwise they tend to burn a hole right through your GI tract (transient ulcers).
me : Awesome - and this is prescribed medicine?
dr : Hey, it works fine as long as you eat food.
me : Oh, I can do that...

Naproxen is also used in Aleve, but in smaller doses. As a comparison:

Aleve recommends 2 pills (220 mg each) for the first hour, but no more than 3 pills per day. So, total of 660 mg per day.
This prescription says 2 pills per day (500 mg each) for a total of 1000 mg per day. Huh.

Physical therapy starts next Wednesday - interested to see what that involves.

I'm a lumberjack! And I'm okay...

 

ok, so my team is running the swap meet at our local velodrome tomorrow.  bike stuff.  buyers.  sellers.  window shoppers.  you get the idea.

 

so the team general is out of town with his wifey, so he delegated the official day of ops to yours truly, the cap'n.  aside from having to get to the event super early (6:45), i have to get change to run the gate and concessions.

 

bank of america

 

me : [standing in line] ho-hum...

attendant : what do you need today, sir?

me : yeah, i need $200 in singles.

attendant :  [gulp] oh...  we can help you out with that.

me : [back to standing in line...]

 

teller : next, please.

me : hi, could i please have $200 in singles?  $1 bills...

teller : sure, no problem.

[hands me 2 $100 stacks of ones]

me : wow...

teller : what do you need all that for...?  ;)

me : you wanna find out?

teller : [giggle]

 

do i need to mention that i was in one of the epicenters of strip clubs in san diego?  yeah, the sluttiness of this episode didn't escape me.  awesometime.

You stay classy, San Diego...

 

San Diegans, I have a very grave announcement - the dead are walking the streets of OB!


As well as the resurrected!

(Burrito, anyone?)

Hey, it's Ron Burgundy!

 

Breaking news from Ron Burgundy and the Channel 4 News Team!

 

At work today, the Financial Manager told me I should think about quitting working for the Navy in favor of comedy / acting.  It would pay better.  She said I just looked a lot happier being Ron Burgundy (and Buddy the Elf) than being Jeremy the Navy Systems Engineer.  Hmm.  Funny thing is that CAPT Pope (the top of the food chain boss guy in our office) said the same thing 2 days prior on Halloween.

Ron Burgundy turned some coin at the local bar scene last night. Didn't even realize the costume contest part until I was on my 3rd or 4th scotch (Ron's drink of choice - Scotchy scotch scotch scotch). And truly folks, it just escalated really quickly from there - Ron Burgundy style. I haven't woken up drunk in years, but I sure did today. Wow, that was just so no good.

We had a company 'offsite' with mandatory attendence today bright and squirrelly at 8AM too, so I couldn't call in sick. By some miracle I woke up in time to throw on some clothes and get to the meeting. Talked about the 'corporate enterprise', and BS like that. I was awake for most of it, I think. First thing, though, was a 'team building' trust exercise where you wear blindfolds. For a second, I was really worried that I might fall out of my chair while blindfolded, but I turned out fine.