Boxerboi's Journal

05/21/2006 15:28 #21004

Cold day

I am stopping short of calling it a crappy day. Its cold and windy outside.

I am mildly annoyed that it has been warm and sunny Monday-Thursday and cold, wet, rainy for the weekend. I hope this pattern does not go through the summer.

In other news, I watched the Count of Montechristo this afternoon. It was a pretty good movie; held my attention the whole time.

mike - 05/21/06 18:17
i've always wanted to see that.

lilho - 05/21/06 17:51
good movie. i should've read the book first.

05/20/2006 19:18 #21003

Mmm good

I made a banana smoothie today. It was incredibly good, but I think that could have been because I followed the directions.

Apparently they have an entire line of this stuff. I have to go back to Wegmans to check it out.

I hope its healthier than the Breyer's Extra Creamy ice cream I've been mixing in a blender for a milkshake. I'm getting sick of ice cream. Why do all of the good things have to be so bad for you?

Speaking of food, I am waiting for Jeff to get back so I can get some dinner and he's no where to be found and I'm starving.

05/20/2006 16:25 #21002

Tonawanda Bike Path

I went rollerblading on the Tonawanda bike path this morning. It was really nice. I've only been on it twice; the other time was last year on bike. It was a lot of fun but windy.

I was amazed at the number of people fishing. Grossed out was more like it. They were fishing 100 yards from some rusting industrial waste processing system. I bet they eat the fish too.

mrdt - 05/20/06 20:47
easy on tonawanda...it's ok...

anyway that path actually begins somewhere in the Erie Basin Marina, follows the niagara river, and cuts all the way down to the tonawanda/ north tonawanda border, which is a short distance from a path that follows a quite a few beautiful miles of the erie canal.

there is also another path in canada that starts in Fort Erie then splits into a path to Toronto or Niagara on the Lake. This ones nice....

There are paths that follow the old train tracks deep into the niagara falls gorge as well as paths that stay on top. I think this one starts under the north grand island bridge in LaSalle and goes into Lewiston then Fort Niagara along the "bob."

Amherst is also biker friendly with paths that go to Rochester and beyond. My buddy rides his bike back and forth to Darien Lake (round trip 65 miles) along these paths and some roads.

paul - 05/20/06 17:02
I will never visit that health forsaken wasteland again. Tonawanda be gone. I spent way too much time there in my formative years.

jenks - 05/20/06 16:37
where's the tonowanda bike path? I was so excited to go on the paths around here then I did it and was like 'ok, that was 2 miles. Now what?'

05/19/2006 21:26 #21001

Rollerblades

Alas I don't have pictures, but I'll make sure I get some this weekend.

I bought a pair of rollerblades. I haven't rollerbladed since 5th grade.

I didn't realize that the one's I bought don't have brakes.

I don't know how to stop & it looks really fucking funny when I try to stop.

Look for me on elmwood and prepare to laugh.

It's a totally different workout then I am used to for my legs, stomach and back. I wish there was some type of die you could rub on yourself that would turn colors to show you what muscles were being used. Like blue for inactive muscles and red for actives ones. I think it would be a cool experiment.

:oP

leetee - 05/20/06 10:46
I'm an old fart and never did the rollerblading thing... love love loved rollerskating when i was a kid, though. Probably still would... but i am not nearly as brave as you are -- heading up and down Elmwood on miniwheels...

mrdt - 05/19/06 22:39
That's a good idea... for the dye... everytime I get toward the end of an exercise and my form gets kinda sloppy it would be interesting to see what muscles I use to keep the movement going so I could learn how to keep from doing it and maximize muscle seperartion.

05/19/2006 16:31 #21000

Al Gore
Category: screwed

Lately he's been popping up all over the place. He was on SNL last week I guess and he's in this month's issue of Men's Health.

The more I see him, the more I like him. Anyone that can get so royally screwed like he did and then come back and poke fun at the whole thing is cool with me.

I found his 4 guideline's interesting:

1. When a direction feels right, go that way to find out why. fulfillment usually follows.
2. Solve one problem. You amay find you're inspired to solve more.
3. There are a lot of us on the planet, and we do a lot of damage. We can also fix a lot of things, if we chose.
4. Everyone needs a purpose in life. Even puppies.