Blog Post Take Two...

Thank God for PBS. Last night my brain was fried and it saved my life.

For most of the evening I was deleting old photos and video and trying to make room on my hard drive.

I uploaded some new software and was copying files from one program to another and my computer gave me a warning that I'm running low on disk space and have only 197 mb left from a 200 gigabyte drive.

For the next 3 hours, Alice, Alyssa and I were reviewing my 10,000 photos and deleting ones that we didn't think we needed. No Triathlon photos were harmed in the process.

By the end of the night I had 7 gigabytes open. It was then just past 11 pm and I didn't want to write the blog post, but I got an email from Derek (CouplaHounds) saying he's looking forward to it with his morning coffee tomorrow. That's all it took to motivate me to GETTER DONE.

The rest is history. I changed over to the new editor months before, before switching back, and the same thing happened, the post or parts of the post would delete. Doru, you're the computer nerd, any help would be appreciated, let me know what buttons I'm pushing that are deleting an entire entry. Like you, when the window closed, I figured "no big deal" and then when I opened it, it was gone.

It was midnight and I decided to go to bed, it was too late to start writing my blog post. My mind was racing. From experience I know if I try to fall asleep with a racing mind it doesn't work, I'll be up for hours. Instead, against Alice's ongoing wishes as she tries to sleep, I turned on the TV and specifically PBS. 

Within 20 minutes the documentary background voices on PBS put me into a slumber. In fact, the best program they offer with the best voice to put you to sleep is Frontline, hands down. Last night I caught some documentary about the Apple Circus.

Yesterday, earlier in the evening I had no choice but to make room on my hard drive. The day before I bought the family a new camera. It's the Canon 7D SLR camera. In one of my drunken moments in Kona, to shut Reid up, I promised to buy him THE Canon 7D SLR camera for his movie making. I knew nothing about it and little did I know it was $2500, I thought it was about $900. Had I known, I would have kept my mouth shut and kept listening to his whining.

Reid loves movie making and wants to be a director. He's not into sports and that's how we justified the purchase. Out of all the sports and hobbies he's tried, and he's tried them all, he keeps making movies. He's constantly on You Tube and did his research and told me the Canon 7 D is the best camera. He said Saturday Night Live, the TV show 24 and even Steven Spielberg uses it. 

At first I called, "bullshit", until I asked him to show me movies and TV shows that used the camera. The quality is truly amazing. I've attached some You Tube clips of the quality at the bottom. There is five clips, each with a different style, take a look as short parts, you'll be blown away.

They are all a little different in subject matter and filming style. I know the one with the porn actresses WILL be watched fully by Matty O. If he had a laptop, he'd probably even take it in the bathroom. (I heard he got caught once trying to unplug all the cords and take his CAD work desktop machine into the bathroom and it didn't workout so well with his boss).

The next topic I'd like to discuss is the earrings and hopefully put this issue to bed. I got an email from John Barclay yesterday or the day before. He asked why I got the earrings? I emailed him back with a truthful reply, I poured my heart out. I then got a return reply from him that said, "Whatever!" 

Until I got that email, I didn't realize that no matter what I say, unless it's what he wants to hear, it's going to be a "whatever" response. 

So for John and the rest of the knuckleheads out there, and you know who you are, I'm going to tell you the reason I got the earrings and hopefully this will put the entire issue to bed once and for all. I'll give John what he wanted to hear.

I'M GAY!!!!

I've been in the closet for 45 years. The only reason I got back into triathlons was to look at fit men. The only reason I trained with John for Ironman Louisville and ran with him on Sunday's and around the track during the week is because I was smitten by him. He's so tall, dark and handsome. I love his Village People mustache and his flat as a pancake butt. But most of all I think I just feel in love with the hair coming out of his nose and ears, it accentuated his baldness.

And Matty O is right, I enjoy going to Hans for a rear end adjustment. In fact, I loved Matty O's peoples elbow. It wasn't Al Nolan who was the instigator at the HOP Beer run and started the wrestling on the trampoline. It was me. I look forward to wrestling with a bunch of sweaty men and the peoples elbow was a near highlight. It hit me on the side of the butt, like a charlie horse, had it been about 5 inches move to the center, then Bingo, I would have been in heaven. 

So there you have it, you now know the reason for the earrings. And don't think I haven't seen guys like Matty O, John Barclay and Simon on the gay porn sites I visit. The stuff you guys do is wild, I think it's even banned in 49 of the 50 states, except Vegas, which gives you added motivation to get to the 70.3 World Championships in Vegas. I couldn't even dream of some of the things you guys figured out to do. Looking at it ALMOST turned me un-gay. 

Hopefully now the earrings are put to rest. 

I've got to say I LOVE my alter ego's blog, TRAINING PAYNE-S. Each post has been classic. Yesterday's post about the Ironman earrings really hit home and made me laugh. (I hope that blog continues as well). At one point I was actually thinking of getting Ironman earrings and in unison, Alice and Alyssa said NO!!!!

Coming out of the Y after yesterday's swim, I counted 11 Ironman logo's on my person and on my truck. I have 3 Mdot tattoos, a shirt, a jacket, a gym bag, a swim cap. On the truck I have a chrome emblem, a trailor hitch cover and two license plate holders in the back seat waiting to get put on. Not to mention my morning Mdot coffee mug, er pail, and water glass. Actually, now that I recount it, that's 12. The earrings would be just a LITTLE to much.

I'm running out of time, I;ve got to get to work, so even though I got more to say, I've got to wrap this up. The other stuff about my training state of mind will have to be on my next post. 

To close it up, I'm glad Al and Julia Nolan are alive. They had a near miss that killed 5 other Canadians at a Mexican 5-Star resort they were staying at this past week. In fact, Julia had just went for a run and passed by the area that exploded. She felt the ground shake. Al was in his room and didn't hear a thing, I assume he was watching "Spank-tra-vision" on TV and thought the explosion was his. Dreamer.

In all seriousness, I feel badly for the people who were killed and injured and glad that Al was okay. In fact, when most people were leaving to go home, the Nolan's decided to stay for a couple more days. I'm assuming, in true Al fashion, he asked for a discount or coupon for another vacation.

I could just see him at the front desk arguing with a Mexican manager that the grounds are a mess, far from 5-Star quality, "I want compensation, you almost killed my wife". I attached a news video below for those who may not know what happened.

I'm looking forward to seeing some of the new stuff Reid creates with the Canon 7D. He's hoping to shoot his movie this weekend if he can break his actress, Alyssa, away from exam studying. I said we should advertise for an actress on Craiglist, but Alice vetoed that idea, she was afraid who would show up and didn't want them in the house.

Al's Mexican News