Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

A variety of little mini-posts on my usual topics

Sports:

From NHL.com:

For NHL fans, it's the second-most wonderful time of the year.

While nothing beats the eight weeks of excitement during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the weeks leading up to the NHL trade deadline certainly serves as a tasty appetizer.

Ugh, not from where I sit. I keep bouncing around web sites (hence the stop at the NHL) looking to see if any trade news has been posted. I'm waiting for the rest of the shoes to drop, but I'm waiting with an upset stomach.

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Food:

I finally got the holiday ham bone out of the freezer and made navy bean soup yesterday, but it was sixty-five degrees outside. You can't eat soup on the first springlike day of the year, so Victor fired up the grill. I expected pictures of the flames on his blog, but instead he's contemplating chicken wings.

People have asked if I minded his Hooters addiction. My answer: only when he doesn't bring any wings home to me.

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Health & Fitness:

I have been enjoying my circuit workouts at the "quickie" gym; the women there are very nice, and I feel like I'm getting some benefit. But yesterday we took the dog out for a little hike (ok, a walk) around one of the lakes in Rock Creek Park, and it felt so much better to be outside in the sun, using muscles to actually propel myself forward. Keeping pace with a chubby beagle who needs to sniff every square inch isn't very difficult, but it was, as Victor pointed out, healthier than sitting at the computer all afternoon.

And I'm remembering to breathe, too.

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And finally...a joke:

Didja hear about the exotropic trombone player who loved Easter candy but only ate it on airplanes?

He was a wall-eyed, one-horned, flying purple Peeps eater.

Posted by Nic at March 1, 2004 12:18 PM | TrackBack