I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.

I had a good day, and it’s not over. I may get even more done.

I vary my cycling workouts throughout the week. Wednesday’s are a longer ride and Saturday’s the longest. Both days I just ride, without regard for pace. It’s about distance not speed. By contrast, Thursdays are intense. I ride a much shorter distance but try to ride hard the whole time, something approaching 90% effort. And I do the hill route so that between the course and the effort I get a good cardio workout.
Today I did a PR (personal record) for that hill route. Nice way to start the day.

The CD’s check out fine. The 90 letters are in the mail.

It’s not written yet, but at least as it exists in my head I like the sermon. We’ll have several families out of town this weekend; it happens during the summer. But God is sovereign and will have in attendance those who need to hear this. (Moses and the bronze snake.)

I rarely write anything about Pam in these posts, and that’s by design. It’s primarily out of a respect for her privacy; it’s one thing for me to throw myself out into cyberspace but it would be presumptuous and unfair to throw her out there. If she wants to share something she uses Facebook. (She rarely posts, so when she does it’s something she feels deeply.)
But I’m going to break my own rule.

Pam has been doing a GREAT job at daily exercise. Physical exercise is not something that comes naturally to her. She is her father’s daughter (PTL) and that includes being sedentary by nature. But she’s walking every day, most days both morning and evening. On the days she works her 12-hour shift I drive her car a mile down the road and she walks to it and then drives on to the hospital. This despite the fact that even at 6 a.m. we’re into the mid-80’s. The days she doesn’t work she does two miles in the morning. And almost every day she also walks a mile or so in the evening.
I’m proud of her for the effort, and the benefits are evident.

I don’t tell her what I post and she doesn’t read my blog. (She gets enough of my ramblings as it is.) So let’s keep this little breach of her privacy between us, eh?

I need to apologize to Reischea Canidate, one of the broadcasters on ESPN. Among other things she does the “Sports Minute” on Mike & Mike In the Morning (ESPN2 from 4-7 a.m. Phx time). I figured she was just a talking head, albeit a pretty one, reading a TelePrompTer. Today Mike & Mike interviewed her during one segment of their show. Turns out Reischea was a high jumper at USC and a member of that school’s first-ever national champs in the NCAA track and field competition. They asked her about the NCAA sanctions against USC because of the violations in the football program under Pete Carroll. She did a great job of explaining the issues involved and her take on Pete Carroll and what this means for the program at USC. Very articulate!

I’m reading about Congressional efforts to change the federal laws so that the govt. can fine BP beyond the current limit of $75 million. I don’t know if any of the spill can be attributed to violations of law by BP or if it’s just the result of stupidity and incompetence. But assuming it involves violations of law, how can the govt. change the penalties retroactively? From time to time we read about a criminal who did some dastardly act but can only receive the punishment the law specified under the time the crime was committed. So how can the govt. change these penalties retroactively? Much more severe penalties may be justified, but if Congress was too dumb to see this eventuality back when they wrote that law does it work for them to cover their butts now by changing the rules after the fact?

If the President is looking for someone’s ass to kick I’m not sure he needs to look a lot further than his own backyard.