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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • No Pain, No Loss

    Speaking of numbers?

    Push-ups completed this week: 41

    Sit-ups completed this week: 11

    I started a morning exercise routine this week, and yes, I’m starting small. I figure on doing ten push-ups and five sit-ups per morning until that gets (relatively) easy, then move to some combination of more of those activities and another activity yet to be selected. The idea isn’t to turn this into some massive workout or use this as a weight-loss program; I just want to get my body back to a place where I can do things again without becoming winded way too quickly or just plain being too weak.

    Unfortunately my abdominal muscles flat-out gave up after the second day of sit-ups. Wednesday’s attempt was accompanied by “OW OW OW.” Which scuttled my push-ups as well. Since then I’ve been starting with the push-ups since I know I can do those. My sit-up attempts yesterday and today were met with a big fat “NOT HAPPENING” from the abs.

    I think they’re on strike.

    There’s talk of putting in a workout space into the office expansion (yes, we’re expanding again). This might be a good thing, as I can’t afford or schedule a proper gym. (Nor would I want to deal with that environment, really.)

    So. There’s me, trying to get a bit healthier. Yay?

  • By The Numbers

    This post marks 2000 entries to the journal.

    On June 26th this journal will be effectively 11 years old. Now, we achieved this partly by importing some back-dated entries from the previous website, but there you have it.

    We’ve racked up nearly 4000 approved comments, and let’s not speculate on how much spam we’ve deleted in over a decade.

    It’s worth mentioning that since posting dropped off precipitously after I lost my job with Entercom six years ago, the bulk of these 2000 posts took place in the first half of this site’s existence. C’est la vie, I guess.

    I have more content queued but when I noticed in the WordPress Dashboard that there were 1999 posts in the system, I figured I should mark an occasion somehow. And here we are.

  • Year Four of Quacked Panes

    I don’t always have much luck with this particular method, but apparently what it took to shake off several days’ worth of deep blue funk was to hunker down and get some creative work done. What this means for you is that Year Four of Quacked Panes kicks off Monday, both comics for next week are already queued, and I whipped up a new banner image.

    Considering that I was starting to worry that I’d lost my webcomic mojo, this makes me feel much better about things…

  • Don’t don’t fence fence me me in in

    I took the camera to Advance Camera out in Beaverton for a cleaning a couple weeks ago, and now that it’s back I’ve decided to take some pictures that include some nice blue sky, since I no longer have to worry about “Photoshopping” away the smudges that kept showing up.

    What I want to know is, who looks at a fenced in area and says, “You know what? That needs to be fenced in.”

    (It’s probably because they don’t want horses jumping out and running into the new road alongside the Washington County Fairgrounds. But why should I let a good, practical answer get in the way of a joke?)

  • Litmus Test Services

    I’ve often said that I should hire myself out to organizations, advertising agencies, or major corporations to vet their proposed media campaigns, domain name choices and so forth. The deal is simple: If at any point in your presentation I start to giggle like a teenaged schoolboy caught looking at naughty pictures, you should rethink your strategy. Here’s an example, and if you’re averse to a certain… ah… kind of language I recommend that you stop reading and go look at disapproving rabbits or something instead.

    So! What crosses your mind when you see the following domain name?

    cumcpdx.org

    Don’t worry, it’s actually safe for work. I’m not linking to them because I’d rather not have someone checking their referer logs and coming (ahem) after me for what could be considered a bit of mockery.

    And if you don’t understand why all the fuss… congratulations, you’re probably a nice, normal, well-adjusted person. What’s that like, by the way…?

  • I’ve seen better days.

    I spent all day Sunday in what felt like a sleep-deprived fog, even though I slept reasonably well Saturday night. I figured something must have gone awry during the night. This morning, as I tried to prepare for my work day, I found out what. And promptly notified my boss that I’d be staying home for the day on account of not being able to keep my insides inside.

    I then curled right back up in bed and slept for another five hours, racking up nearly twelve hours of sleep. Now, I don’t sleep during daylight or with loud noises outside very well, so that tells me something about the state of my body right there. Also? I didn’t even feel properly hungry until almost 3pm.

    About which, by the way: Eating some cheese & crackers didn’t go quite as well as I’d hoped. More’s the pity.

    Later I’ll be trying some ramen noodles and passing the time watching bad movies or something along those lines. I can’t concentrate well enough to read a good book (again, more’s the pity) nor handle three-dee activities like (for instance) most video games. I don’t get bored, but I am annoyed that my go-to “leisure” activities are denied me today. I’ll manage, though. I always do. (Hello, MediaMonkey and my 60-gigabyte music library!)

    At least the rain has scoured much of the pollen & other allergens from the Portland air. For this, I am grateful.

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