Today's walk report: 080513

Another...

Ice cream run. I couldn't help myself at Costco today (a walk in and of itself.) I thought I was going to be fine after picking up bread and rounding the corner toward... THE BAKED GOODS! My biggest dietary downfall are cookies, cakes, pies and muffins. So I told myself, no carrot cake cupcakes this time--just keep moving. To my surprise there were no carrot cake cupcakes but then my eyes locked onto these...

Oh no, say it isn't true-- Red Velvet Cake Cupcakes! And only $1.16 a piece!! And they're HUGE!!!

I broke down, there are no other words for it. I simply crumbled for the crumbles.

I did not, however, buy any ice cream to go with my cupcakes. I mentioned here that I must have i.c. with cake but i.c. at Costco probably means you have to buy something like 8 gallons of it. I didn't even bother looking.

91º I walked to get ice cream but this time I went direct. Last time I walked about 6 km before I got to the market. The direct route is about 2 km and it's about 2.5 km coming home. I have a lot to do tomorrow and I did 16.25 km hard on the bike in the AM. So fuck it.

I did swing over along the walk to say hello to one of my girlfriends. She doesn't talk much so it was brief. I mentioned I was concerned about her dieting so much and asked her if maybe she has a problem and should seek some counseling. I don't think she paid any attention.

I like them both... but only cupcakes require ice cream.

Today's walk report: 071013

I thought it would be nice to take a walk in the summer rain...

However, I had to run serpentine just to catch a few drops. But it was raining a tiny bit and "chance of rain" tonight is 10%. Whatever they mean by "tonight," it's already 7:15 PM.

83º, out the door about 5:40 PM and I didn't suffer from the weather as much as I have in recent days.

I had a mission too. I decided to zig-zag the southbound neighborhood and take a detour at about 6 km, head under the freeway for the supermarket and pick up a container of vanilla ice cream.

Remember when it was a 1/2 gallon of ice cream? Now it's either 1.5 or in my case today, 1.75 quarts. If you want to go back to "the good old days," you can still get a 1/2 gallon of vanilla Ice Cream at Trader Joe's. It's pretty decent vanilla too. I'm kind of picky about vanilla ice cream.

Along the way...

Rest stop...

Two of those chairs and a love seat. In good shape for the most part. They would have been swooped up in 10 minutes on my street. Actually, this is my street but a different block with less visibility to traffic.

Almost to the supermarket. A photo op with the mannequins. I was planning to get cute but there were too many potential witnesses.

Back home, mission accomplished and only modestly softened during the journey home.

 Total walk, 8.45 km. Not enough to cancel much of this. The reason for the i.c., my carrot cake cupcakes from Monday are getting a tad dry and I don't really like cake without ice cream.

I've said it before but for the benefit of newcomers and those of you with poor short term memory... I never promise anything here more than a report on my daily walk.