A place to store my thoughts until I figure out what to do with them.
Here is our daughter quoting some Bible verses. I give you a heads up as to which verse it is just in case you cannot make them out. She said some more for the recording, but these were the best quality.
She is 2 years old. Will be 3 next month.
Enjoy!
[audio:leyla_verses.mp3]If the above player does not work you can download the file directly.
I voted today, with the help of my son, on what we thought the new 7 wonders should be. Can I tell you how my vote went? Is that spilling the beans? No? Good!
We chose: the Statue of Liberty, Chichén Itzá, the Acropolis, the Colosseum of Rome, Machu Picchu, the Great Wall, and the Pyramids of Giza.
Apparently you can vote twice. You can vote via the Internet and telephone. When I was done with the voting process and confirmed my vote, I was offered a chance to vote again by phone. So you can be heard twice if you so desire.
I did not like that they made you give your gender and name for your vote to count. It is not a survey, so gender should have been optional and your full name should never be necessary. We are not voting for a world leader here. I am sure this is supposed to help curb the multiple voting by one person. But there certainly can be several people with the same name. Your required email address should have been sufficient.
One of our local attractions is in the running to be one of the new list of Seven Wonders of the World. The final votes will be counted 7-7-07 (get it?). Chichén Itzá has made it into the final running. There has been quite a bit of press coverage over the last few days about it.
The committe from Switzerland was here on Tuesday to experience a celebration of the locals showing off our wonder. (hmm, I know I read in the newspaper yesterday that the committee was from Switzerland, but I don’t find anything to support that now that I am looking on line.)
Today it was announced in the paper that the Pyramid (or Castillo) at Chichén Itzá has made it into the final 21 choices. So far there have been 27,000,000 votes cast! Wow!
Chichén is about an hour and a half from here. I have been about 5 times. It is a great place to go if the person/group that is going is at all interested and can appreciate what they are seeing. If they just want to see Mayan ruins, there are plenty of really cool places that are smaller and closer to town. That way it does not take all day and you don’t feel obligated to walk your legs off.
A couple days ago I posted about a neat little box that I had devised to help me with interview recordings. Well, I have abandoned that route in lieu of a better set up that was recommended by a member of the Podcast Pickle forums.
Instead of having a long post here on the main page, I have made a separate page for this “article” with hopes to refine it as time goes on.
I hope it is a help to someone else down the road.
The reason for the lack of running comments here is because I have not been running.
Saturday I got a “flat tire.” My shoes rubbed a hole in the back of my leg. I was doing a 6 mile run and about 2 miles into it I noticed that my shoes had been rubbing my achilles tendon. This was not a new problem. These shoes have been a problem since my first run with them.
I then ran 2 more miles and found that I could not go any more. I stopped and took off my shoe and started the 2 mile walk back home. That did not last too long since I am a tenderfoot. I put the shoe back on, but very loosely laced and tried to walk with my foot in the front of the shoe. That still hurt, but I alternated walking with and without the shoe. I would have called my wife, but since it was a short run, I did not take the phone with me. I normally only take it when I am going to be gone more than 7 miles.
I have not found a shoe store here that carries shoes big enough for me. So I am stuck with these until I can have some brought in or I make a trip back to the US. These have 350 miles on them. I can almost justify getting new ones now.
So the hole in the back of the leg has kept me out of shoes as much as possible the last few days. I will probably get back on the road tomorrow. I have missed the last 2 exercise classes because of this, but I have been doing other basic exercises in the mean time.
Now that I have had my break, it is time to go bang out a few more push-ups before hitting the shower.