Holla to the U.P.

Today's Haiku

Cold beer and euchre
exposing Michigan roots
It comes back quickly

Today's Workout
Running: 4.6 miles
DAREBEE: (May never do this again? I just have two days left)

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Demotic from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Rockin' that Kondo

Week 28

Stats:

Running Mileage: 523.94/1,000

Drinks: 221/365

Vegan: 27/100

Books Completed: 15/25

Words Written: 206,779/350,000

Fasts (Days without)

Internet: 96/171

TV: 73/120

Gaming: 101/141

Booze: 82/163

Coffee: 77/150

Junk (Savory): 57/100

Junk (Sweet): 89/100

Eat Out: 133/100

Today's Haiku

Organization
figuring out what to toss
causes some tension

Today's Workout
(Having trouble getting motivated this weekend. We shall try again soon!)

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Paradigm from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Bounce Back

Today's Haiku

A much better day
though I feel quite hungover

without all the fun

Today's Workout
(We rest and organize today)

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Eclectic from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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A Din like No Other

Apologies for the "blue" haiku but not really because it's driving me crazy. I guess I'm officially an old person now. 

Today's Haiku

The neighbors downstairs
are wasted at 4 am
and having loud sex

Today's Workout
Running: 3 miles

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Abominable from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Hurt Again

This ain't a cry for help. Just using what I got. Something snapped and I'm sharing the pieces. It'll heal back together again. It always does. 

Though I'm a little sick of waiting while the damned bones reset.

Today's Haiku

More sadness more pain
for no apparent reason
This disease sucks balls

Today's Workout
Running: 3.1 miles
DAREBEE: Day 88 from 90 Days of Action

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Rapporteur from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Down for the Count

Today's Haiku

Simply divine rage
erupts in bouts of weeping
I can't be contained

Today's Workout
(My head did such a number on me that the body couldn't take it)

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Campestral from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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A Look Back

A couple years ago I did a review of the year in small scenes and I thought I'd bring it back! Here's my 2018:

-Listening to a close friend recite poetry on his birthday in a roofless barn in Germany
-Standing on a bridge between two tectonic plates
-Putting on a cardboard fish outfit to play Poseidon after only one run-through
-Laying on an examining table while a stranger gels up and scans my testicles
-Navigating a water taxi on the rivers of Thailand to get to yet another Buddhist temple
-Helping process over 3,200 people on the last day of Maryland's early election period
-Committing to trying out vegan recipes and loving it
-Listening to a cadre of shape note singers perform in an old German church
-Running a half-marathon while in the middle of a medical trial where I was exposed to Malaria
-Rekindling a relationship with an old college friend after being out of touch for seven years
-Kissing my grandmother for the last time less than 12 hours before she passed
-Feeding elephants in the jungles of Thailand
-Bathing in natural Icelandic hot springs and then jumping in an ice cold lake

Today's Haiku

New year, new mission
mind replete with self-help zeal
Biannual crunch

Today's Workout
Running: 5.3 miles
DAREBEE: (I just keep putting it off with these long runs)

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Handsel from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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