TAL is rerunning this February 2001 episode. It makes me a little nostalgic for pre 9-11. I have clear memories of it on initial airing because it was the first time I had ever heard Chris Ware’s voice.

UPDATE: This episode also features the never-directly named Zora Colakovic story. Few years after this a couple friends started telling a story about attending a friend’s wingding in Southern California and I think the friend they were visiting was Zora. I always forget to ask them if I’m right.

This week something finally shook loose in my body from the running – my ankles aren’t sore in the morning and my blood pressure finally appears to be responding. Weirdly, it dropped by 10-20 points over the weekend. I’m still puzzled by this. This week my target is about 23 miles, so next week is my first week at the hypothetical plateau. Although, I did realize that I could do three ten-mile runs a week and possibly compress my actual time budget way down over a few weeks of upping the run speed and easily meet the calorie target, so I may be thinking about increasing the plateau number. We’ll see.

Good birds this year – both birdhouses are occupied, but two different species. I think I need to move one, though – it’s all-copper and I foolishly placed it in a location that receives direct sun.