Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by Gene

The Onion does me one better
Scholars discover 23 blank pages that may as well be lost Samuel Beckett play

Sure, I can write a twenty page parody of Waiting For Godot, but I can't nail the Beckett admirers as well as The Onion just did.

For those of you wondering
I'm still not smoking. And I still want to.

A return to the gym
What should be interesting is seeing how much smoking retarded my weight loss/muscle gain program at the gym. It's possible I'm about to completely hulk out here, without changing the basic workout at all. I started going back regularly last week and found it easier to go up in reps on just about everything. Crunches, for instance. (That's "sit-ups" to most of you.) I'd been struggling at between three reps of 50 and three of 55 for the past month or so, but went up to three of 60 two nights ago. This was after the last time I did the 55 and, on the final set, just kept going past 55 and up to 75, where I stopped on the grounds that while I felt I could have done more, I also wanted to be able to stand upright the following day.

Meanwhile: fantasy baseball! Catch the fever!
Or something. I'm still mildly addicted to the day-to-day thrills of the ESPN Baseball Challenge. I'm sure you think less of me for it. If it's any consolation, I'm still working hard on that new novel (current title: "Sorrow Falls") so I haven't completely gone round the bend.

I'm in the 91st percentile in the challenge, it's only April, and I have plenty of time left to work my way up the leaderboard. Sure, there are 7034 people in front of me, but I don't think of it like that. I think of it like: there are ONLY 7034 people in front of me.