If the Door Wasn't Closed

Usually, original pictures on Poor Impulse Control are taken by Pete, though sometimes I take them. Those are often pictures I crop thumbs out of and adjust for dumb darkness. These pictures were taken by the intrepid Darla at Lake Erie, near her house. Dad's third wife is Canadian, you know. You'd never guess but she looks just like a normal person. For example, if this were my neighbor's house, I'd be using some exceedingly piquant verbiage. Darla called it a mishap. Crazy Canadians don't know when to get excited. The house is about to fall into an inland ocean. Now might be the time to employ a modifier.

Haloscan's magical transformation into another monthly bill proved curiously timed: I wasn't writing well. Sorry about that. I often write blog posts while people are talking to me; when posts have nouns and verbs I feel like I got away with something. Anyway, I had to give some thought to whether or not blogging was my metier anymore and if I was going to put the time and effort into Poor Impulse Control to make it vibrant, quirky and full of interesting crazy. I thought about it long and hard. Finally, I decided if there was anything I was willing to add some elbow grease to it's poor impulse control. My ennui can bite me. Haloscan's gone. I'm still here, rededicated to thinking the funny thoughts.

In New Jersey, we call that a breezeway.

The thought occurs: what if rowing camp, on which I have focused what we laughingly refer to as my attention, requires that participants arrive with a clean bill of health in July? That would give me five months to exercise, stretch, get massage and plunk myself down in the bathtub. Shouting, "LOOK! SOMEONE FAMOUS!" and switching xrays isn't going to cut it when the doctor for the U.S. Crew Team shares an office with my sports medicine doc, so I'm working a new plan. I've ordered new exercise videos and quit bothering to remove the ski pants in my office anymore, keeping the hip warm. We've changed our diets to reduce the amount meat on every plate relative to the amount of vegetable. In a few weeks, it'll be warm enough for me to bicycle to work again. I am going to push as hard as I can; if I can go, I'll go. If not, then not, but not for lack of trying. When I find myself limping, my best defense is to tighten up my abs and walk evenly. In related news: I walk like Charles Atlas in ski pants - only, you know, smaller, rounder and better-smelling.