'Heart of Gold’ put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore, so I headed for the ditch.” – Neil Young, comments written for the liner notes of his 1977 compilation, Decade.
I ran this race back in 2009 and have been wanting to do it again ever since.
The Life Time Chicago Half Marathon is a flat, fast course along Lake Shore Drive — a great setup. It’s at the end of September in Chicago, which makes for ideal running weather and…the last time the weather was absolutely gorgeous.
I was a bit younger then which will make the prep work a bit harder. Whatever.
If you’re interested, here’s my invite link: https://letsdothis.com/share/69deac54cff0cef3984795f8
As happens, life has overtaken my reading. Time to get back to it.
“The most effective way to do it to do it”
Pretty good.
Edith is/was a feral cat born in May of 2025. She was hanging around after her mom and the other feral cats we had hanging around left (they are still around just not around our house). It was pretty cold outside during January and we decided to coax her inside the house. She and our other cats get along fabulously.
Been awhile since I did an update. I’ve been traveling which is always a good time to get some reading done. Let’s see what we got:
All of the above books were pretty good. Number 1 and 2 are Westerns and rest vary on subject matter.
Everything is Tuberculosis was the book that I learned a lot from. I didn’t know that tuberculosis was so prevalent.
We’ve had Koi since September 2024 (Sept. 4th to be exact). The only way I can describe her is joyful.
I’m heading off on a week’s vacation and looking forward to it. Hoping to be able to get a jump on this year’s book list. I’ve got quite a few candidates which I’ll list out later.
This is the ninth book in the ‘Slow Horses’ series. I enjoyed it but it is not as good as the others in the series.
Another Craig Johnson book. Love his style of writing and I enjoyed the story.
Note that the cover is wrong. Netflix dropped the show and Paramount picked it up.
In 2025 I read 32 books… so I missed my goal of 52 by quite a bit.
For 2026 my goal is to, again, read 52 books in the calendar year. Some of these are fast reads others…not so much.
Also; the links below are to Amazon but they are not affiliate links so you can’t make me rich this way.