The last few days I’ve not felt very good. I don’t know what I have but I expect it is the flu that is going around like wildfire at the office. Or maybe it was the Denver Broncos performance in the Super Bowl. I showed up Monday and got a few things done that needed to be done but I woke up Tuesday and no way I was going to work feeling like I did.

I had a boss years ago who’d tell me, “Hey Alan, don’t forget Oprah is on at 4” and then laugh. I loved Oprah, what a show. I miss her. I have a new favorite though: “Live with Kelly and Michael.” It is like wow, what an unlikely pair but the chemistry between them wonderful to watch. I remember Michael Strahan as an almost unbelievably intense football player and it is otherwordly watching his repartee with Kelly Ripa. It is almost like the finish each other’s sentences. What a way to start the day if you are feeling like crap.

I’ve learned that staying hydrated is a big thing when I’m not feeling well. I’m drinking lots of tea and water. 

Something that has got a lot of air time the past couple days is the big debate between Bill Nye, the Science Guy, and a creationist. What a scoop for the creationist. Nobody had ever heard of him beforehand nor his so called museum. He may be ignorant but he is pretty smart. It really peeves me when creationists say that their theories are the “Christian” viewpoint. This Christian sees no contradiction at all between the Bible and science, yes even including evolution. In my view creationists are trying to dictate to God what he can and cannot do. 

Well, I’m getting a little cranky so it is time to sign off.

I felt like getting out and about Sunday and we had already had decided to be sinning heathen pagans instead of going to church so I took off from the house to do a little running and geocaching. It was running along suburban residential streets and major thoroughfares featuring the big block stores and fake food restaurants.

This is what Kohl’s Cache looks like. Not quite the same as Kohl’s Cash.  I’m sure I’m infringing on somebody’s trademark. If they catch me please send me a post card to Guantanamo Bay. I also tried finding a few Munzees.

Munzees are little QR codes put out by Munzee.Com. Its kind of like geocaching in that you use a GPS except when you find the QR code you scan it with your smart phone. For every find you get points. I don’t know what the points get you. You have to have a smart phone equipped with a GPSr as there does not appear to be any way to claim a Munzee without scanning it.

It was kind of fun finding the little Munzee QR’s and scanning them and there seems to be lots of them scattered around shopping areas and fake food restaurants but I don’t think that I’ll go out of my way to find them.

One problem I see is that there is no way to report back to munzee dot com if a QR code has gone missing. With geocaching, people log “did not finds” (aka dnf’s) and that lets the owner of the cache know that there might be a problem. I’ve already come across a missing QR code. I can see where the sticker used to be and it is gone for some reason. So how do I let the owner know that it is gone? There isn’t a way.

Also, it is very commercial and it seems that the whole thing is to get businesses to put out Munzees to lure us unsuspecting consumers into their stores in order for them to flog their merchandise, services, and food to us. I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound like recreation to me.

Bottom line is that I’ll find Munzees when Sweetie is in Dress Barn and I don’t have anything else to do.

Below is the track of my meandering 5.72 mile route. I found three geocaches and four munzees and had a great time.

Our World Tuesday

Spring is here, the days are longer and it is warming up and all that is a good thing. Along with that comes daylight savings time and that is another good thing except that it is the end of my sunset photographs. I love my job but not enough to stick around another hour or so to take some pictures.

Speaking of that. After eleven years of a great view I am moving into an interior office from my cubicle by the window. I will miss my view but I am kind of a “just tell me where you want me to work” kind of guy.

Skywatch Friday

Lake Union, Seattle

Weekend Reflections

Fall is Oklahoma’s best season. It may be everywhere’s best season.

First Presbyterian Church

If I have time I love to run at noon when the weather is good  from downtown through the adjoining neighborhoods and parks to the Arkansas River and back. Sure beats getting up at 5 to run in the morning or the treadmill.

Boston Avenue Church

I take along my Ipod touch. I love the Hipstamatic Camera App.

Downtown from Centennial Park

It has tons of different “films” and “lenses” to create all sorts of different effects with the photographs.

Midland Valley Trail

Four miles for lunch is a great way to start the afternoon. There is great noon weather running here generally past Thanksgiving.

What do you do like to do at lunch?

Skywatch Friday