{"id":1250,"date":"2016-12-11T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2016-12-11T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:02:15","slug":"lots-of-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Lots of random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019m <\/span>running down the road today<\/span><\/a>, and the shirt I was in was rubbing me to wrong way. Literally, after only 4 miles I could feel the soreness on the man-nips. Side-note, you need proof of evolution, look no further than the man-nipple, there is zero reason for them, none at all, yet we have them. Why? Evolution, what \u201cintelligent\u201d designer would leave something so useless in a design? Anyway, it is fun to run with no shirt on while everyone else is bundled up like it was -6 out or something! It was not here, it was 10 degrees C, which is about 40 F. Not bad at all. I mention -6 because that was the temperature in New Haven today. <\/span>
\n<\/span>It is the one sad thing about living here, this is my favorite running weekend when I\u2019m back in Connecticut. The Roxbury Marathon was Saturday and the Christopher Martin\u2019s Holiday Run for Children 5k is today. Seeing all my friends having fun running, and drinking after the 5k, made me sad I missed it. Lots of fun overall. Even though it\u2019s always super-cold this weekend. It\u2019s great to see almost the whole running crew in one weekend. Only a few of us run both races, but between the two races I see almost everyone local.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Back to the run, so I\u2019m sitting there with my shirt pulled over my head so it\u2019s not chafing, and everyone\u2019s staring at me. Look, I get I\u2019m not all chiseled and ripped and whatever, but holy crap, who wants that pain? And it\u2019s not that cold, says the guy lamenting he couldn\u2019t run a marathon in below freezing temperatures. But it is amusing, they get so cold because they\u2019re simply not used to the temperature getting much colder than it is right now. If there are days here below freezing, they don\u2019t last long. I worry that one day I\u2019ll be like them! That I will not retain my inherent New Englander toughness. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Beyond that, everything is working well. That twinge in my hamstring is back, just as a background annoyance. I\u2019m on track to match last year\u2019s mileage total, after basically taking the months of May and June off this year, I\u2019m rather impressed with that, but after the first of the year, I\u2019m definitely taking it easy for a bit again. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Being that I will return to the area in just under 2 weeks now, I\u2019m starting to prepare, and planning on running a 5k on New Year\u2019s Day! I\u2019m waiting to hear from the organizers about where I enter my discount for my running club. Why pay full price if you don\u2019t have to? I also got my neices and nephew\u2019s Christmas presents, got myself Christmas presents haha! Have to get something for my mom, which is actually for the house, and I\u2019m good there. My Christmas presents aren\u2019t presents at all, I need a blanket and an extra set of sheets. Through all my idealism, my philosophy and everything, I\u2019m imminently practical. Constantly worrying about what needs to be done. It\u2019s maddening being so irresponsibly responsible.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Either way, I\u2019m getting it done and making it happen and fighting the good fight. I think that\u2019s what matters in all of it. I was saddened today on my run though, as a plot of land I had been eyeballing had the \u201cFor Sale\u201d sign removed and someone was riding their tractor around plowing the field. It\u2019s ok, I have plenty of time and there will be other plots of land to grow things on. But still. <\/span>
\n<\/span>As far as Turkey goes, yes I\u2019m saving it for last. Listen people, anyone who tells you this bullshit is about religion is making money off all this crap. Fuck this bullshit, everyone needs to calm the fuck down. The West, the East, the Middle East, everyone needs to calm the fuck down. I\u2019ve just absolutely had enough of this bullshit, and it\u2019s all bullshit. It\u2019s all about who controls the resources and who wants to control the resources. And you want to end all of it really fast? Really end it, because killing ISIS only grows another group in its place, nope you want to end it? Knock it off with oil, kill the phony \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, and put your dicks away. Yes, ending fossil fuel use destroys much of their revenue stream. Even though we\u2019re not \u201csupposed\u201d to, assholes like Rex Tillerson and Vlad Putin buy the oil from these fucks. Then, they do some heroin growing of course. Which if you ended the drug war, firstly ends most of the draw of drugs (reference Portugal<\/a>), people can grow openly, so there\u2019s no need for weapons or anything to protect their crops, so they won\u2019t work for strongmen and whatnot, they can just work on their own, and it would be a legal, traceable supply chain. Yep, drugs are terrible, but at least if it\u2019s out in the open, we can actually address it like the health issue it has always been. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Then your penis. Look, most of the human trafficking which occurs, most of the human slavery is women, as sex slaves. 0ver 80% of the women smuggled into the US, as slaves, last year, were smuggled in for the Sex Industry. Re-read what I just said. There are slaves, in the US, most of them are women, most of them are forced into labor as sex slaves (reference Jimmy Carter\u2019s book on the subject<\/a>). Seriously, guess who is a giant player in slave-trading? Yep, ISIS. So seriously people, you are funding them, and then agog they exist. Just stop, and realize you can actually do something to help. By just saying no to oil, the war on drugs, and the sex industry. Sorry folks, that\u2019s the way it is.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I just want all this to end, I\u2019m sick of it. <\/span>
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