Green Alligators and Long Necked Geese

Finished last week at 42 miles for the week which included a long run on Sunday of 16 miles. Feel pretty good so the hope is to keep this pace up for the next few weeks and then begin to taper back the mileage. While running Sunday at around 5:30 am I stopped as I came across a family of Deer just hanging out in somebody's front lawn. As soon as I stopped to watch them they all stopped and turned around to stare at me and we had ourselves a good old fashioned Mexican standoff. I remembered the Lady with Chimpanzee in CT and I quickly continued on running all while looking back to see if I was being followed/hunted.
Took the Kids to the Shriners Auditorium as they had an indoor zoo exhibit. If you like animals who are barely keeping the grim reaper at bay then this is the Zoo for you. If these were the animals Noah had to choose from then the Arc might as well have been a row boat, they weren't going to need the space. The big draw was the Unicow. Now, if you're like Pam and I then you quickly read that as Unicorn and who doesn't like Unicorns, they are the Loveliest of all. What this place had was a cow who only had one horn. What a fantastic lesson for the kids. Let's take this animal who is slightly different than everyone else (through no fault of his own), let's segregate it from everyone else and let's all point and gawk at it. Good Family Fun. Maggie did enjoy the cotton candy though.

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Little Miss Molly returned home from a Week and a half long hospital stay on Thursday and is doing great. No real reason as to why we were in there as long as we were, but we'll be going to Children's to see some specialists who can hopefully shed some more light on it. Her Brother is sure happy to see her home. A few of the mornings we've found them holding hands and talking/cooing back and forth with each other. I resumed running on Sunday and did an easy 5 miles followed by another easy 3 miles on Monday. Hopefully, the nearly 2 week layoff hasnt set me back too much.

Saw a guy at the gym with the Tattoo "ALWAYS BE CLOSING" on his arm. I get that that is a phrase often used in Sales and I saw Boiler Room with Ben Affleck and Glengary Glenross and I know it's a famous quote from those movies. I don't get why you would ever tattoo that on ANYTHING. If I'm taking sales 101 in College then I'm absolutely writing it in my notebook but I'm not permanently marking my body with it. That tattoo is basically just an indicator to the rest of the world that "Hey FYI, I'm pretty much a Knucklehead." This guy must have friends/family and I can't believe none of them told him that the ABC tattoo was a bad idea. I would bet a small fortune that in the planning phases of getting his tattoo he was explaining it to people like this, "Look it's a double meaning I'm always trying to close the deal with my sales and I'm always trying to close the Deal with the Ladies...." The guy at the Tattoo parlor must have struggled mightily to keep from laughing, "You want what?? Seriously?" If I'm buying anything and I know the salesperson has that tattoo then I'm going out of my way to NOT buy that from him. I will pay extra to not give that numbskull the commission.

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Hiatus

The running for the last week has been non-existent as Molly has been in the Hospital with a bad bout of pneumonia. She seems to be doing much much better now and we hope and pray that she'll be coming home in the next day or two. They don't tell you in any of those "What to Expect" books about how awful it is to see your child being poked, prodded and hooked up to all sorts of monitors. They very well might have mentioned it in those books but, as I assume with with most new Dads, I left that fancy book learning to my wife. Nonetheless, it was awful to see. Pam has always and continues to amaze me with how unbelievable a mother and wife she truly is. She has single-handedly held everything together and has been by Molly's bedside for 90% of the time while I worked or took care of Maggie and Jimmy. She has a big present waiting for her when she gets home and that present is a whole heaping pile of Laundry.