Friday Musings 07/22/2005

Fri – July 22, 2005

Did I mention that it's hot, in San Diego?

I believe I did, but it bears repeating: It's hot, in San Diego. Ninety degrees today. Which makes it very hard to do anything – outside, I mean. No distance runs, nor interval workouts neither. Nothing to do with a bike – can't carry enough water to make it all worthwhile. You could swim, I suppose – but I swam competitively growing up and in high school, and tell the truth gentle reader? Just betwixt the two of us? If I never swam another lap in anger it would be far too soon, selah.

So, hot. So hot. And in a heat wave like the one we're having here, you can apparently put the idea of making a hole in the garage for a wee, bitty, BMW 330i straight out of your head as well. We are reliably informed. In this kind of heat.

That's how hot.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex