The Johnny Ramone Army is Coming to Take Your Baby Away!
SAM FOUT HAS COOKED UP a fun little animated tribute to Johnny Ramone, complete with guns and a tank. Enjoy! If you like the style, check out Fout’s “Mos Eisley Wiseguys” poster.
A New Adventure Begins - Patty and Scott Are Now Independent Booksellers
THE DAY BEFORE THE 4th of July, Patty and I bought the local bookstore in our small town in Vermont. The Book Nook is located on Main Street in Ludlow. Patty is doing most of the work, while I pitch in on weekends. I am learning a lot more about the other sections of bookstores. I now know who James Patterson is. I understand the buzz surrounding the release of Breaking Dawn, the next book in the Twilight series. This also means that I can get my books directly without less middle men in the middle. We have the URL for the store, thebooknookvt.com, but I need to get off my butt and get the hosting and the website figured out.
Race for Grace - A Hot and Humid 5K in Ludlow, Vermont
I COMPETED in the Ludlow, Vermont Race for Grace over the week. The race benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, so you get a little exercise for a good cause. They moved the course from being in the down town area of Ludlow, to being up near the Jackson Gore base lodge complex for the Okemo ski resort. Big difference was a few rolling hills instead of one big hill in the middle of the course.
As the weather was a bit gray, the turn out seemed a lot smaller than last year. As a bonus, Patty decided to do the walk while I did the run. Race started out down hill and kind of breezy, then entered a dirt road between the trees where the humidity climbed and I started to wilt. I was trying to stay with a 79 year old, which I did for about a mile and a half and then fell back.
I was fearing my finish would be in the 30 minute range, but I completed the run in 27.12.4, which I didn’t think was too bad given I had been not running more than once a week for the last month. It was 22nd out of about 40 something runners. I finished in 26.26 last year, so definitely slower this year, but behind the same guy in my age bracket.
Dottie
It was another weird, bad day on Friday that left me mad at the world. Dottie has been struggling lately with a tendency to be a little unsteady on her feet and having a phlegmy cough. After a second round of examinations, it looks like she has had a return of her cancer. Looks like it centered in her liver and lungs. Prognosis is that Dottie has weeks, based on how much showed up on the xrays just three weeks older than the first set.
We have her on medicine that is supposed to help with the tumors, which also amplifies her already overly aggressive food obsessiveness. We are planning on keeping her as comfortable as possible and see how it goes. She is 14 years old, so she has had a good run. And as Patty points out, she is not showing the symptoms that are expected (loss of appetite, swollen liver, etc).
We will keep everybody posted on her further adventures.
Happy Bloomsday!
TODAY is the day when the events took place in James Joyce’s Ulysses. I have never read the book myself, but I downloaded text file version for the Kindle. Bloomsday is now a week long event in Dublin, the city where the novel takes place.
