Beer Mile

Some of my friends and I just did a "beer mile," which is where you go to a track and do 4 x (drink a beer, then run a lap). Tommy won, followed by Erik, then myself. Our times were lame. Tommy barely broke 10 minutes, Erik right around 10, me at 15 (I had to run a penalty lap for throwing up). Ya, on my 4th beer, I had to puke. I felt it coming while running the third lap. Think: 4 beers in about 10 minutes while shaking it up with a mile's worth of running. Sounds like fun, and it is...only while it's funny to laugh at other people being miserable, you have to be in the same boat.

We might turn this into a monthly event. If we get ambitious, maybe even a grand prix series! Andrew said that some of the guys he used to run with would do 12 12s, which is where you chug a beer, then run a 1200m and repeat 11 times. That's a total of 8 miles and 12 beers! I'm definitely not up to that level yet. Maybe next time I'll break 12 minutes...I just need to avoid the penalty lap and chug my beers faster.

I started off with a slow chug (trying to pace myself) of about 30 seconds, but I was the first to cross the line for the first lap...second lap not so bad. After the third beer, things just started going downhill.

Lowercase for Newbies

I think that fraternities and sororities should make their newbies wear lowercase greek letters instead of the capitals that are normally associated with the organization. That would be funny.

Pick #99

Idle Sons - "Tell Me" from Sixteen Seasons

My Dream Team

I was thinking about the following problem: what if you had to pick a group of people (aka "team") with whom to be stranded on a deserted island or sent into space with or forced into the wilderness or pretty much any situation. I took about 5 minutes and decided to pick 10 people who I would enlist to be in that group. Restrictions on who I can pick are: must be someone I know well enough to make the request to be on my team and must be living (e.g. can't pick Plato or Tesla; Gates or Sachs).

Some members have a specific talent for the group and others are more diversified players. Don't feel left out if you aren't on the list. I obviously can't list the excellent qualities about everyone, but here's my initial thoughts on what the team members might be asked to do:

Roster (in no particular order):
1. M. Cable - all things science, crawling into small spaces
2. A. Snodgress - Eagle Scout stuff, heavy lifting, medicine
3. S. David - keep all other team members from negative thoughts/acts toward each other
4. Mike D. - lend music to our world, brainstorm
5. C. Maniscalco - creative problem solving, more Eagle Scout stuff, break any laws necessary
6. D. Shiner - all things computer or fire
7. D. White - philosopher, translator (proficiency in 8 languages)
8. P. McCurdy - anything nautical
9. M. Selby - animals
10. P. Arce-Trigatti - laughing, empanadas, more music

Notes:
I may add more notes later.
interesting that 7 out of 10 came from the HC. Exceptions: #2, 3 & 10.
9 have athletics background (maybe #4 does too, but I never knew about it)
all have big brains, a large set of talents, like to have a good time, and can work on the same thing for a long time (only applies to #5 for things he's interested in).

Emerald Coast 4 Turnout

Check out the showing we had at this team race. Lots of people won awards. Tommy won overall. Go team.

Chupacabra

I was at Gordos on Pensacola about 2 weeks ago for lunch on the weekend. I didn't know what I was going to order until I saw "Chupacabra" on the menu. Game over. I had to have it. The menu proclaims that it tastes like chicken, which was my first clue that they didn't actually have access to enough cupacabra carcases that they could regularly supply it on the menu.

I ordered it and it had a little spicy sauce in the middle. It came in round, fried balls. It was definitely interesting. In fact, part of the reason I orderd it is just to tell people about it, which is what I just did. Mission accomplished.

Godzilla's $5 Footlong

Subway has a catchy ad campaign for their $5 footlongs. People hold up five fingers, then spread their hands about chest high, palms facing, a little less than shoulder width apart while $5 footlooooong is jingled in the background. That's all cool, except when Godzilla does it. I mean, he's not making a gap of a foot with his hands...it's probably more like 8 feet. I mean, I guess if Godzilla walked into a Subway and asked for a $5 8-foot long, then they'd better abide. I just think it might be a bad choice to realistically represent the size of their on-sale subs.