Drag. I just got the new shingles up this year - like 40 year shingles, you know. And now there's space junk a fallin'. Space junk can look cool when it's falling except when it's falling on you.  •  I must have told you this but last summer, we were sitting out back in the early evening when …

...if Al has the tee on, then I won't wiff this one, too..."  •  I admit it - I am a Johnny come lately. I have listened to the home broadcaster for the Giants, WFAN, for fifteen years or more. I like how they call them the New York Football Giants like it's 1948. And the use of grey in the …

...maybe one day I can be on a shot put guy card.  •  If there was one thing I did in 2007 that has changed my life, it's buying that shot put. 10,000 and more sit ups since the last of summer? Shot put. Pressing 42 lb dumbbells? Shot put. If I am to have a breakout year this year at 45 I have to …

I met a person whose body and chattles weighed in at under six pounds this week. Amazing stuff people. Like carrying a shoe around. What else did I notice this week?  •  When some kid does her masters thesis on me, there will be something of a puzzle to solve so I better help her out. Yes, that is …

Sit ups. In 115 days. Still have a gut bit there is a six pack there under all those six packs.

Stuff becomes me: I like it and I assimilate it. Every year I think that the stuff I was introduced to was the best stuff and then more stuff comes along and I realize that that is pretty damn good, too. Here is the best stuff of 2007:  •  Pear Juice: pear juice from South Africa in particular …

You realize, don't you, that the decade that was brought in with Y2K and all the other millennial whoo-haa is now 80% gone. It doesn't even have a name and it's already a senior citizen. Time is flying. Heck, my holiday week off is almost gone. So we better do some prognostications for 2008 before …

Later: I suppose that I should take another photo now that dawn has come in case it was not clear what the heck that image above was all about. Tasks today: breakfast brunch put on by one of the other work groups meaning I get all the upside without having to crack an egg. Then one last shopping …

Two hundred for starters. Gotta happen. And that Queen reunion tour hoodie I did not buy for seventy-five bucks? I did not buy that one so that I would have space for the $125 Zep hoodie.