Gonna do it again

I'm running again. I picked it up a couple weeks ago and hit the 5K goal last Wednesday. I didn't enter an actual 5K, just ran the distance around Marsh Lake. Training up to that distance took the least amount of time this year, compared to other years.

Must have been all the dodgeball I played this winter.

3 weeks ago (when it was 60, before it was 25 again) I walked it and ran the middle mile. Next time out I warmed up/cooled down the first and last 1/2 mile and ran the rest. Ran the whole route a week ago, then bumped it to 4 miles last night.

Last year my goal was to train up to 10K distance by the 4th of July. This year it's 10K by the end of May. Maybe try and get that time to under an hour by the 4th...

Best Sammich ever

I can't take credit for coming up with this recipe, but I can take credit for making it and eating it, which, if you missed it, was delicious.

Grilled Ham and Egg Sandwich

2 slices Sourdough bread
Sopressata (Italian salami)
Prosciutto
Fresh mozzarella
1 egg
basil leaves
red onion thinly sliced

Fry the salami in a wide shallow pan (big enough to fit the whole sammich in later) just until the fat renders. Remove from pan and set aside. Fry the egg in the oil sunnyside up, remove and set aside. Layer the bread with the salami, prosciutto, mozzarella, onion and toast - right back in the same pan - on both sides. Add fried egg and a couple basil leaves to the bottom half, slice and serve.

Great with a crisp Pinto Grigio.

In Summary

Imagine this scenario: You're browsing through the TV listings, scanning for a movie to watch, occasionally pausing to read the brief synopsis of the movie (the one or two-liner that describes the show, maybe on-screen, maybe in your news paper or TV Guide).

If you're watching TBS pretty much any given Saturday afternoon, you'll find:

The Breakfast Club: "A wrestler, a rebel, a brain, a beauty and a shy girl share Saturday detention in a Chicago high school."

More specifically, on a sci-fi type channel you might find the following:

Back to the Future: "A teen takes a crackpot's DeLorean time machine to 1955 and sees his parents in high school."

Or,

E.T. The Extra-terrestrial: "A boy's close encounter with an alien stranded on Earth leads to a unique friendship."

The summaries are jam-packed with keywords, often stacked 3 and 4 in a row, maximizing the description in a short space. So, they might seem a bit odd to read, but when you know the context, they are effective in describing, in this case, a couple of mainstream 80s movies.

Imagine how my curiosity was piqued upon reading the following synopsis (which was from the 80s, but NOT a mainstream film):

Solarbabies: "Orphan roller skaters follow a magical sphere to freedom from fascist police of the future."


Roller Skaters, you say? Yes, but ORPHAN roller skaters.


Follow a sphere? Wait - where? No, a MAGICAL sphere. To FREEDOM.


Freedom from the police? Even worse. FASCIST police.

OF THE FUTURE.

I'm not sure I've ever seen 15 words say so much.

As a sci-fi fan I had to watch this movie. No surprise, it was terrible.

My valentine

...And happy half-birthday to Sophia!