I walked a 5k today. I’d have at least jogged it (poorly), but I wasn’t dressed for the occasion. Someone handed me their number for the Atlanta Kaiser Permanente Wacky Race & Fun Run. I had gone to support Maggie, who was actually running it (and maybe steal a sandwich while the 20,000 participants were all running away), but I did wear my running shoes since I had to hoof it a ways to the race starting point at Turner Field. Why not walk the 5k? Well the answer was probably because “you will sweat like a pig walking 3 miles wearing jeans in this weather”. Honestly, I probably would have sweat about as much playing picross on my DS back at the tent. It’s what I do. I mean sweat. I play DS a lot, but I have a natural talent for sweating.

I got paid today for the first part of the big project I’ve been working on. I’m under the impression I can show you what the heck it is in about 3 weeks.
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Whenever I’m at fancy parties (which is like all the time. I’m at one now), I tell people I don’t watch TV. This is a way of letting other people know how smart you are without actually having to do anything smart! It is like in undergrad when I would leave dumbbells on the floor of my bedroom. Any girl foolish enough to wander in would see them and assume I worked out. Nothing could be further from the truth. I would have kept a guitar in there, but the game would have been up had she asked me to play anything more complex than a scale progression or a hinky version of the first 2 bars of Ode to Joy.

The point is, I am a gigantic liar. I watch TV. Maybe not as much as the next guy, but I make up for it by spending so much time online, that my history makes claims like that I have been searching for animated GIFs of midgets riding dogs while I’ve been sleeping. It’s possible. As an aside, I couldn’t find an image of a midget riding a dog, but I am sure that 10 minutes after it is posted on the internet someone will find a way to make it into porn.

I watched some of the amazing new TV shows this season that will change the course of human history and usher in a new golden age of entertainment. Here is what I’ve seen so far:

Chuck - A Geek Squad guy at Best Buy has all the secrets of the NSA and CIA downloaded into his brain as the result of some weird ALIAS plot device. This show is filled with nerd fan-service. I liked it, but I don’t know where the hell the show is going to go after the initial mystery is solved.

Heroes - FRYING MAN!!!

Journey Man - The dork in me demands I point out that this show rips off Quantuum Leap and The Time Traveler’s Wife. Joe Cool Bad Ass from Rome is in it, and I’m actually curious about where the hell the show is going. That’s good I guess.

House - House is mean, and a patient almost dies once every commercial break until House figures out what was wrong all along. I just wrote every episode of House! Still like it.

Bionic Woman comes on tomorrow. I think I’m supposed to like that according to the nerd magazines, but they’ve been playing a making-of ad before movies at my local theater for months. It just looks like a predictable rehash of a couple other series already out there.
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