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…at least that’s what my ragweed allergies are telling me.

from L. etymologia, from Gk. etymologia, properly “study of the true sense (of a word),” from etymon “true sense” (neut. of etymos “true, real, actual,” related to eteos “true”) + -logia “study of, a speaking of”

We had a blizzard last night. I’m guessing less than a foot of snow, but a lot of drifting. I wasn’t going to let that stop me from going to work. There was a drift behind my car up to the top of the bumper but I managed to work my way out of the parking space. Once I got to the end of the driveway I high center or deeper denser snow. I walked back through the snow and “borrowed” my neighbor’s snow shovel, walked back to the car, and spent about 20 minutes or so shoveling my car out. I walked back to return my neighbor’s shovel, walked back to my car, and managed to make my way to the street. I took a different route to work than normal to avoid iffy looking streets. About the time I got downtown I got a text message from a co-worker asking how I was going to spend my day since the office was closed. So I turned around a drove back without any trouble until I got to my parking spot. I spent a couple minutes moving forward and backward until I was fully in the parking spot.  About that time, the private snow plow showed up to clear the parking lot.  Great.

I passed the PE Exam.

KAP Winstar II Riser
KAP Winstorm Limbs (40#)
Shibuya sight
Carbon Express Maxima arrows
W&W Fomax long rod
Fivics (Soma) stabs

The UPS guy left at package for me at the apartment office today. When I went to the office the door was locked but the sign said “Come on in.” The lights were still on and it was 10 minutes to closing time so I just leaned up against the wall and was going to wait assuming the office person was showing an apartment or something.

Well it turned out that the wall I leaned up against is next to the door for the bathrooms for the pool, which also happen to be the bathrooms for the office staff. I was quite surprised that somebody came out that door, but she was more surprised to see somebody loitering outside the door and screamed at the top of her lungs.

She had a confused look on her face after that because she didn’t know what to do–whether or not to run (she was kind of cornered) or scream some more or what–but thankfully she didn’t have her any mace or anything on her otherwise I am pretty sure she would have used it.

After a few seconds of my apologizing she finally calmed down and opened the office to retrieve my package. She also apologized for screaming in my ear and assured me that it was because she was startled and it was dark and that it was not because of my face.

Well that’s a relief.

A co-worker diagnosed me as being autistic today.  I didn’t have anything to say on the subject.

I have only run 3 races this summer but I have still been busy running:
- I have run two 5k’s and one 8k.
- I finished 3rd in my age group twice.
- I got beat by a guy pushing a stroller.
- I got my revenge on stroller the next race.
- I joined the Battle for Fitness at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield and logged over 240 miles running at the battlefield earning me a hat (yep, just a hat).
- I set a personal best for a 5 miler.
- I set a personal best for a Battlefield lap this last week.
- I think I will run the Springfield half marathon again this year (November). (This time with no injuries?)

Some guys at work wanted to join an adult indoor soccer league and need players so I joined under the condition that I would play goalkeeper since I suck at soccer and can’t not use my hands. Our team consists of a wide range of experience ranging from none to life-long soccer enthusiast. We joined the “C” league, which is supposed to be lowest level of competition–there are three other teams and one of them has been playing together for 13 years. So it turns out we are the worst team in the worst league. We managed to tie our first game, but we have lost three in a row for an 0-3-1 record. If we could score more goals and our goalkeeper didn’t suck we just might win a game before the season is over.