Take No Prisoners: July 15th

Zach Gingerich, who won the ultra marathon that my pal UltraFriend finished in May, won the Badwater ultra on Monday.  Very cool.

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I was proven right about men lying about their height on dating sites.  There's a reason I have no idea how tall 6'0" is:  online dating.  Thanks to Becca for pointing out this link.

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My parents are at Indiana Sprint Week, so last night I went to their house to water my dad's roses.  He says "The spigot is on the front side of the house, three bushes from the left, near your old bedroom window."  In my mind, I remember these bushes as being individual units.  When I arrived, I realized that they are in fact one mega-bush (yes, I used the word MEGA-BUSH just for Maureen) fused together.  About 4' tall, 4' deep, and I could not find any sort of passageway between them to get to the spigot to turn it on. 

So I'm standing in the front yard, picturing myself leaning over the hedge, falling, upside down, stuck behind the bushes, feet in the air, screaming, with nobody there to save me except maybe the kids across the street that I babysat for in high school who aren't there anyway because they are now in like graduate school because I'm old as heck, man.  And I thought "This is not the answer."

Instead, I crawled through a 10' tall demon rose bush on the back side of the house, chained together every garden hose I could find, and dragged it all the way around the house.  The heat was ridiculous and I had to stand there forever because the hose still wasn't long enough to get to the front half of the massive rose bed, so I had to do some creative water dispersion.  And then I left the whole hose conglomeration just laying there, in case it doesn't rain in the next day or so and I have to go back again, because dying in the MEGA-BUSH is not a choice.

Worth it.

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This week, years past:

2009:  What do you call a castrated sheep in an assless camo-print onesy?

2008:  Project Runway season 5 debuted (transcripts from PR Chat make me miss talking to Sing2Phins every week).  The new season starts on July 29th at 9/8c, for 90 minutes.

2007:  The BABY JESSICA incident

2006:  Scientology can't save your deformed baby, Tom Cruise.