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No work/school events/carpooling (except for the 4:10 am shift) today, so I got to concentrate on being She-Beasty.

AM: Weights

60-65 minutes at the gym. Went up 5-10 pounds on most things. Did the following, did supersets with some of the weights/core work:

deadlift, 90 x 2 x 10
tricep press, 85 x 2 x 12
straight arm cable lat pulldown, 120 x 2 x 10
standing ab crunch, 85 x 2 x 12, each side
seated narrow grip row, 110 x 2 x 10
leg press, 330 x 2 x 10
calf press for ankles, 110 x 3 x 15
standing push ups on double cable free motion machine, 35 x 2 x 10, each arm
external rotators, 10 x 2 x 15, each arm
arm raises for RC, 3 x 3 x 15

back extensions w/15 lb weight, 2 x 25
crunches w/ med ball, 2 x 25
crunches on incline bench, 2 x 25
reverse sit ups w/yoga ball, 2 x 25
long arm crunches, 2 x 25
prone scapular scrunches w/ 5 lb weights, 2 x 25
held the plank for 1:15
hip exercise (no idea what to call this, a trainer showed me it one day): put shoulders on yoga ball, body horizontal with feet on ground. lift one leg straight out. lower your body until ass almost touches the ground and back up, 2 x 12 on each leg (these are hard suckers!)

AND, 2 x 10 chin ups.

These weren't nearly as hard as I thought they'd be. I wasn't straining until the last one or so. If you'd asked me last week if I could do a pull up or chin up, I'd have said maybe 1. lol

5 minutes stretching

Weight lifting question of the day:

Does it make a huge difference which of the myriad attachments you use on the cable machines? (Aside from obvious ones like the narrow grip one for the row.)

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PM: Swim/SCY/Solo:

Warm up:

700 variety swim, kick, drill

3 x 100 single arm fly drill @ 1:50

Aerobic Conditioning Set:

Swiped and modified this set from Chris' blog from a couple weeks ago. Unlike the workout monster, I did it as an aerobic conditioning set. I'm doing mostly aerobic work for a couple weeks after Auburn. Didn't emphasize SDKs much; my legs were feeling a bit thrashed from the spin/run/weights. Did not feel real fast.

3 x 200 free @ 3:00 (swim-kick-swim)
4 x 50 easy speed fly @ 1:00
50 EZ
3 x 150 free @ 2:15 (S-K-S)
4 x 50 back @ 200 pace @ 1:00
(these were more like 300 pace)
3 x 100 free @ 1:30 (S-K-S)
4 x 50 breast @ 1:00
3 x 50 free @ :50 (S-K-S)
4 x 50 IM order @ 1:00

150 EZ

Speed set:

8 x (25 AFAP free w/fins + 25 EZ)

200 C/D

15 minutes hot tub

Total: 4100

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Went home and found that the Recoverite had arrived, so I tried some. Preparing to feel like a mack truck hit me tomorrow.

Thu Feb 26th, 2009


7 days till Austin Grand Prix Thu Mar 5th


Pamela LeBlanc Featured Me in her blog
Long fingernails = fast swimming

Made Swimming World Magazine's Blog Post of the week
Blog Post of the Week: Ande Rasmussen Provides Strong Masters Workouts

still coughing

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following BIG 12 Championships
Hook Em


Texas High School Championship meet is this weekend at UT


TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE
6:30 - 8:00
Whitney Coached
scy TSC center course, bulkheads, blocks
swam with Tyler Todd Mike & Amy
beside Larry, Max Meg Michael & doug
dove in on time


WARM UP
200
50
200
50
200
50
200
50

MAIN SET
assigned: 20 x 50 on 1:00 best ave
did: 4 x (3 easy, 1 skip, 1 fast)
did 1 fly went 23

assigned: 10 x 100 on 2:00 best ave
did: 2 x (3 easy, 1 skip, 1 fast)
went 55, 51

assigned: 5 x 100 on 4:00 best ave
did: 3 x (2 x 50) easy, 2 skip


50 fl Fast
went 23

50 easy


NEXT MEET:
USA Swimming Austin Grand Prix Austin TX
Thursday March 5 - Saturday March 7, 2009
7 days away
Meet format: Short Course AM, Long Course PM
http://www.utexas.edu/longhornaquatics/meets
entered the following events
THU #05 100 Butterfly 52.63 #08 200 IM 2:00.32
FRI #18 100 Backstroke 54.05
SAT #24 200 Backstroke 2:21.04 #26 100 Freestyle 48.85


NEXT MEET:
2009 South Central Zone USMS Championships
Friday March 27 - Sun March 29, 2009
29 days away


NEXT MEET
USMS MASTERS NATIONALS
May 8 - 10
http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/
73 days away

I am sorry to report Wednesday was no better than Tuesday. I guess sometimes you just go through a little patch of funk, then hopefully come out alive.
After work I headed to LA Fitness w/swim workout in hand. I pulled up, looked at the pool through the windows and said...NO!
I called marty and asked if he would run (it's more jike jogging these days) with me tonight; he agreed. I arrived at home shortly and dove into a bag of barbeque potato chips!...yum....I don't even know who put them in the pantry....probably some messed-up teen-ager.
Around 7:15 we went out for a run. The weather was lovely! I felt a little friskey. I don't think this running is good for my osteoarthritis, but it truly acts like prozac for my brain!
Tonight is practice with the NASTIS at 7:30 pm.
I am starting ON TIME and I will have a positive attitude!

This is just dragging on too long but the die hard that I am won't let myself take time off. I'll get the rest this weekend since I have to coach at the state meet this weekend.

1000 as 200 by swim/pull/swim/kick/swim

8x50 @ :55 free paddle on right hand 4 kicks on the paddle hand
100 free kick EZ
8x50 @ :55 free paddle on left hand 4 kicks on the paddle hand
100 free kick EZ

400 free kick with fins on side alternate rt/lt sides by 25 work the legs

5x200 @ 3:00 Free with paddles and bouy went 2:40, 2:42, 2:40, 2:39, 2:34
100 free kick EZ

500 Free last 100 EZ

Total 4000 yards

I decided to stick with Jacki Hirstys 2/23 -2/27 workouts found under Workouts in the discussion forum...since I'm suppose to taper for this Sundays Bear meet, (even though I don't feel I deserve a taper!) Today is the last full workout, tomorrow I will do a 2000 then a 1000 on Friday....
I did the following in the gym
Lat Pull 8x80, 6x100 & 5x120
on the Dual Cable Pull machine;
Fly/Free pull down 5x40 5x35
Back (perside) 5x15 5x20
Chops Down 5x40 & 5x50
Chops Up 5x15 & 5x20
Standing cable machines:
Leg Curls - 8 x30
Leg Extensions - 8x20
I forgot to stretch beforehand, so I suffered later in the pool...

Did the Jacki Hirsty DISTANCE FREE w/o
WARM UP 300 CHOICE FR and BK
SET 1

1 X 150 DRILL/SWIM @ 2 : 15 3:00
1 X 150 KICK/SWIM @ 2 : 30 3:00
4 X 50 DESCEND @ 0 : 45 :42, :40, :35, :30

SET 2

1 x 300 @ 4 : 00 (about 15 sec rest) 5:00
2 x 200 @ 2 : 45 (about 15 sec rest) 2:45, 3:00

3 x 150 @ 2 : 05 (about 10 sec rest) 2:15
4 x 100 @ 1 : 25 (about 10 sec rest) 3@1:30, 1@1:40
5 x 75 @ 1 : 05 (about 10 sec rest) 1:00
6 x 50 @ 0 : 45 (about 10 sec rest) :45
7 x 25 @ 0 : 30 (about 15 sec rest) :30

SET 3

6 X 50 KICK @ 1 : 00 (about 10 sec rest) w/fins 1:00
6 X 50 KICK/SWIM @ 0 : 55 (about 10 sec rest) did Pull instead on 1:00
100 cool

YARDAGE: 3800 3900
I had to really push through the "out of breath sensation"(kind of ripples down through the legs) after the 3rd and successive flip turns and concentrate on breathing . Which is why I love 50's & 100's but hate 200+!

A very short vlog tonight. Tired from practice:

400 warm up
10 x 100 on 1:40, evens IM
6 x 50 fly :55
6 x 50 back :55
6 x 50 breast :55
6 x 50 free :50, first one no breaths; 2-6 1 breath down, 2 breaths back
1 x 200 alternating free and back easy
1 x 200 IM hard (2:33 for me)
1 x 100 cool down
steam bath
home
fried six Wallapa Bay oysters (those giant pacific kind) in vegetable oil and butter; ate them with bread, lemonade, and then some Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream with organic raspberries and extra creamy Redi Whip, followed by medications...

Also tired from writing about a curious case of soy protein induced gynecomastia in a retired attack helicopter pilot.

Anyhooo..

It occurred to me when I recently inventoried the Many Faces of Jim--Jimby, Master Jimmy, Golden Boy, Jamesuardo, Spunky Po'Boy McPunkerton, etc.--that I left out perhaps the most complimentary moniker I have ever been given.

Here is a brief excerpt from a story I wrote 8 years ago for National Geographic Adventure magazine on the time I traveled to the Equadorian Amazon for training at La Escuela De Contrainsurgencia De La Selva--i.e., jungle soldiering to keep the F.A.R.C. over in nearby Columbia where the kidnapping bastards belong....

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At breakfast on my final morning at La Escuela, I sat with Lt. Colonel Bravo and Capitan Freddy in the Casino, a gigantic domed officers’ mess that resembles a modern church and was built as a largely unwanted gift to the military by petroleum interests. Bravo, who looks a little like a mustached Raul Julia, had just outlined our upcoming itinerary: a couple days on real patrol with BOES-60 troops near the Colombian border, and then off on our own for the trip to Huaorani land, deep in Yasuni National Park and far from any possibility of military protection.

“The principle thing,” he told me in heavily accented, deadpan English, “is theese. Do you have insurance?”

“Do not worry, Jim,” Freddy added quickly. “You are equal to Schwarzenegger now. Do you know theese TV show we have down here, Jim de la Selva? Eees about English man who lives in the jungle. I think you are now the real Jim de la Selva.”

The complimentary moniker was just starting to take hold when my eyes happened to spy a photo in the morning newspaper, El Comercio. It showed an Indian police investigator holding three spears found at a murder scene in the Oriente. I asked Freddy to translate the accompanying article, the gist of which was this: members of the Tagaeri tribe, a renegade offshoot of the Huaoranis who have refused all contact with the “civilized” world, had just assassinated two Quichewa Indians who unknowingly wandered into Tagaeri territory. The first victim, a 60-year-old man, was lanced with thirteen spears, his wife was then killed with four spears inserted in such a way that she was found still standing in death. Their five-year-old grandson survived the attack by hiding in the vegetation. He told authorities that he witnessed “several naked people” kill his grandparents.

This was by no means the first time Tagaeri have resorted to murder to defend their territory against encroachment by cowore, their term for outsiders. The tribe made international headlines in 1987 after assassinating Spanish missionary Alejandro Labaka and Colombian nun Ines Arango, lancing them both with a bevy of 13-foot, triangular-cut spears designed, like military bayonets, to inhibit clotting and promote fast blood loss. A one-time victim of Brookside Bible Summer Camp myself, I’m sure part of me might once have admired the Tagaeris spunk--that is, from the safety of the United States.

“Where we’ll be going with Stalin after the patrol,” I asked Freddy, “is it close to Tagaeri territory?”

“Si,” he said, nodding with confident nonchalance. “Eees cerca, muy cerca. But there is no problem, no is danger for you.”

“Why not?” I asked, emboldened by his apparent confidence and figuring he knew something I didn’t.

“Because,” he said, “you are Jim de la Selva.”

Howdy y'all!!

My quest to swim around Manhattan this June requires me to complete a qualifying swim in cold water. Brrrr!

I only did warm water swims last year, so am in dire need of accclimatization before attempting my qualifier. Of course, we're a wee bit too frigid up here in Chicago for swimming at the moment, so..

Austin Tx, here I come!!!!

Actually I've already been to Austin a few times to brave the waters of Lake Travis. Between my old friend, LeighAnn, and my new friend Lynne Smith (English Channel swimmer extraordinaire!), I've got amazing support.

So, to honor the people of Texas, I present to y'all my new training suit...

Good swim this morning although the pool was a bit too warm.

500 FR coach wanted 1:25 pace I got mine around 1:29 but that's good for me.
5 x 200 3:30 as:
EZ/HD
200/0
150/50
100/100
50/150
0/200

200 EZ
12 x 50 BR 1:00 BR every 4th fast
9 x 50 BR 1:05 BR every 3rd fast
6 x 50 BR 1:10 BR every other fast
4 x 50 BR 1:15 fast.
150 EZ

3400

After a break I went and lifted...I went a little heavier today. Did the usual round of the machines...didn't risk my lower back by squatting or lunging around the gym...

But it's what coach sent so I pushed through it. I'm sure he has a good reason.

SCY, Solo

Warmup
400 free swim (swam as 75free/25 back)
300 pull breathe on 5 (was able to hold 5 for 100 then started breathing on a 2-5-2 for the rest)
200 IM drill
100 kick no board

Main Set
20 x 100 free on 1:30: make the interval by 3-5 sec. and pace it out.
(I did either 19 or 21, not sure which. I kept on the 1:30 interval, averaged around 1:26 with some around 1:28 and some at 1:24. This set is hard to do alone. Real easy to space out and lose focus.

Cool down
100 easy
--
3100

Hectic day ...

AM: 30 minutes on my indoor cycle between bursts of work this am.

(I've done my usual canvassing and been told that cycling does not aggravate hips unless your heel "floats" on the pedals. Geek says he's had no issues in his spin classes.)

PM: 4 mile run

(Didn't bother my hip as much as last week. )

Going to force myself to do my RC exercises while watching Lost tonight. Lifting and swimming tomorrow. Need to steal a workout.

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Ugh, just found out I have to get up at 4:00 am tomorrow to take my kid to morning practice. They're doing lactate testing. Hate early morning practice. Makes me secretly wish my kid would quit swimming. lol

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I'm also wondering how people know so much about lifting ... Did you go to weight lifting school? Where do you learn this stuff?

Last night's run was so much better than Sunday. Got in a nice 6 miles with very little wind. I can deal with cold, but the wind has me grumpy. The weather is getting better and hopefully tomorrow morning's 22 mile run will have no wind.

Swim with FXCM...

300 warm up

8 x 100 (25 kick, 50 drill, 25 swim) on 20 seconds rest

4 times through:
100 fast on 1:20
100 moderate on 1:40
100 easy on 2:00

300 kick

4 x 25 underwater

2700 yards total

It was really nice that the guy leading my lane decided to swim all of the 100s fast and I was going 4th in the lane and when he finished the set and told everyone that his goal was to lap me. I have to say that I knew it during the set. Don't know how, I could just tell. He's a friend of mine, so I was more amused than mad about it!

Our coach is having some health problems and as of today is no longer going to be our coach. Best case scenario is that somebody fills in on a temporary basis, she gets better, and comes back as our coach. That's what I'm hoping for. I hope that her health problems are resolved quickly. On a selfish note, I am sad to see her go. She is definitely responsible for keeping me motivated several times and for getting me to where I am now. We'll miss you P!

11:00 AM to Noon (SCM)

300 free
100 scull on back

8x50 - 25 6 kick and roll on back/25 back

4 times through
3x50 free on :55 - I held :45s for the first 3, then dropped to :48s
2x50 - fr/bk on 1:00 - I held :52s for these and managed to drop the number of strokes from flags to wall from 6 to 5. My stroke is slowly improving.

2x125 free on 2:15 - 90-100%
I went 2:05 for both. 2:15 seemed slow to me, but these were challenging after the 20 x 50s
2x125 free on 2:20 - 80-90%
1x125 easy free warmdown

2450 yards

Notes: The news was like a punch in the gut. She has been coaching our Masters' group since well before I started almost two years ago. I hope that our group doesn't fall apart. But I'm optimistic that the YMCA will be able to find somebody to temporarily replace her and she will come back.

I have been feeling really slow lately. I certainly don't feel like I'm back in the swing of things yet and my teammates are already talking taper. To make matters worse, I just connected on FB with some of my old cycling buddies (25 years ago Kissina Cycling Club) and viewed photos of them doing laps up Mt Lemon for some early season training. It is still way to early to get on the roads here with the snow and residual frame rusting crud that lingers until that first post winter torrential downpour, so I popped in on a spin class on friday and monday... yoga saturday and monday (i am going tonight as well). My legs are screaming but I figure if I can stick it out a few more weeks, I'll be able to post some (at least) respectable times at New Englands.

did the geek set today:
2 x 500 on 7:00
4 x 100 im on 1:30
2 x 400 on 5:30
3 x im on 1:25
2 x 300 on 4:10
2 x 100 im on 1:20
2 x 200 on 2:50
1 x 100 im whatever is left

I warmed up about 1200 yds. but never got loose. I descended the free and tried to just cruise the IM's. I missed the interval on the second 1:20 (blame it on breaststroke)

Wed Feb 25th, 2009

8 days till Austin Grand Prix Thu Mar 5th

still coughing

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BIG 12 Championships begin today
Hook Em


Texas High School Championship meet is this weekend at UT

ordered [ame="http://www.usms.org/forums/showpost.php?p=171194&postcount=1084"]Bands: 2 purple, 2 blue, & 2 red [/ame]


Ordered The Engine 2 Diet:
The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds


WEIGHTS (San marcos world gym 6:30 - 7:00)
bench 10 x 135 5 x 185 3 x 205
lat pull 8 x 165 6 x 205 5 x 215
leg press 10 x 180 8 x 270 6 x 360 (done with leg weights till after meet)
lat press 6 x 40 8 x 45, 6 x 50,
BANDS 5 sets of 10 reps with
2 blue cords & 1 red cord

TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE
7:45 - 9:00
Whitney Coached
scy TSC center course, bulkheads, no blocks
swam with Tyler & Jon
beside Larry, Max Michael & Desiree
dove in at 8:00
Pam LeBlanc with the Statesman was at practice working on an article about Desiree


missed warm up


main set
assigned: 9 x 150 done 100 fr 50 stroke
did 9 x (2 x 50) free worked on SDK

assigned 300 DPS
did 3 x 50 DPS took 7 - 8 strokes per length

assigned: 9 x 125 done 100 IM 25 stroke fast
did 9 x (50 fr, rest, 25 stroke) 3 fl, 3 bk, 3 br
worked on SDK, lower recovery on fly which feels great, right groin hurt a little so no breast kicking till next week

assigned 300 with as few breaths as possible
did: skipped it

changed into Blue Seventy Nero Comp

50 bk Fast
roll start off bulkhead (no blocks)
whitney timed
went 23.3

50 easy


NEXT MEET:
USA Swimming Austin Grand Prix Austin TX
Thursday March 5 - Saturday March 7, 2009
8 days away
Meet format: Short Course AM, Long Course PM
http://www.utexas.edu/longhornaquatics/meets
entered the following events
THU #05 100 Butterfly 52.63 #08 200 IM 2:00.32
FRI #18 100 Backstroke 54.05
SAT #24 200 Backstroke 2:21.04 #26 100 Freestyle 48.85


NEXT MEET:
2009 South Central Zone USMS Championships
Friday March 27 - Sun March 29, 2009
30 days away


NEXT MEET
USMS MASTERS NATIONALS
May 7 - 10
http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/
72 days away

This was a long, hard day. Nothing terrible happened, I guess my karma was just out of sync.
After a day at work including 2 after-school committee mtgs. I went home.
Youngest daughter needed someone to help her with a motion photography project in the dark. We were using those light-up sticks and I had to move them in a certain way. (I had a hard time pleasing her but we got it done).
Nasti practice was late, 7:30 till 8:30 in Fishers.
I arrived a little late and missed the whole warm-up. I should have just got in a lane alone and done my own thing, but I wanted the social interaction.....bad call though.
I just couldn't get it together....I felt out of whac the whole practice. I think I should have stayed home.
Here it is anyway:

1)no warm-up (I probably would have done a 5 to 800 free)
2) 5 X 100 Free on 1:45 (10-15% slower than race pace)
3) 4 X 100-75-50-25 (100 always IM, 75 and 25 Stroke, 50 always Free)
4) Super 500- 25 done underwater (not me!)
5) Easy 500 cool-down
6) Extra 200 back cool-down for me
2,700

I will have a better practice tonight! In fact I think the whole day is going to be better!

Just felt sluggish but as usual some how toward the end of practice my speed comes back. I always seem to do better at the end of a set or practice. I guess that means I am a distance swimmer.

10x100 @ 1:45 Free could barely stay at 1:35
8x25 @ 1:00 back kick arms perpendicular
800 Free with paddles and bouy every 3rd back
600 back kick streamline with fins every 3rd SPRINT
400 Free kick with fins and board EZ
6x100 @ 1:45 Free 1/2 swim 1/2 drill (drills alternate finger tip drag and catch up)
3x100 @ 1:30 Free held 1:24's
100 Free EZ

Total 4000 yards

I have a couple of workouts over on my facebook that I did not transfer over. Been traveling without swimming opportunities. I did join a health club and hope to increase the opportunities to get in the water when I miss the coached sessions.

PANCAKE DAY!

Well I went for a nice run on the elliptical today for 40 minutes. I did 4x 20 yoga ball squat thrusts, 10 chin-ups to see if I could...yep I can...one set bicep curl and then went for a swim:

4 x 50
12 x 25 K :45 with board MMMF x 3
3 x 100 K RI :15 FR, FR/FL, FL.
100 FR for time push start 1:11-1:12.
100 EZ
25 FL didn't get the time
75 EZ
2 x 50 Snork
2 x 50 FR

1400

Had my pancakes when I got home from work!!!

Slept better last night and that makes a big difference.

SCY, with Carrie

Warmup
200 swim free
200 kick choice
(did in rev. IM order back and fly on back w/o board)
200 pull back
(with p&b)
200 swim IM
200 drill no free
(went back/breast/back/fly by 50's)

2x around, round 2 faster than round 1
{3x50 kick w/10 sec. rest (no fins)
{swim 4x75 on 1:15 descend 1-4 to about 85%
round 1: kicks - :52-:55, 75's - 1:00->:56
Round 2: kicks - :55-1:00, 75's 1:00->:54

100 easy

swim 16x25 on 30 free: 4x around (4 breaths, 3 breaths, 2 breaths, 1 breath per 25)
had trouble with the 1 breath (took 3) on round 1 then did the rest without problems
Swam these around 18-20 s.

300 easy

Total: 2700 yards

Weight training tonight

Whereas I have written, or perhaps overwritten, the introductory section of my forthcoming treatise on soy and the quiveringly buxom male body....

Whereas my gray matter, no doubt fast losing its myelin sheathing and hence less gray than once said matter was, needs recharging for tomorrow's continuing efforts...

Whereas the superb PBS science show NOVA is broadcasting an episode, entitled "Rat Attack!", which I have been looking forward to watching for weeks now...

Whereas this is being followed by a presidential address on the state of the US economy, an address that is likely to serve as a fitting sequel, "Rat Attack 2!"....

Whereas I am still coming to grips with the noxious sequellae of a tidbit my accountant told me about the likely reason for my audit, this being that in the waning moments of the previous Administration, the IRS was instructed, in essence, to forget going after hedge funds, because these were too complicated to understand, but instead concentrate their rapacious siphoning efforts on little people with schedule C's because it is virtually impossible not to extract easy money here....

Whereas my invitation to CreamPuff to share an In-n-Out experience at the next meet we both attend [ame="http://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?t=13340"]How do you recover after a meet? - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums[/ame] has me so addled with anticipation of a positive reply and anxiety-riddled over the prospect of a restraining order....

Whereas I managed to swim last night's entire workout of 500 warm up, 10 x 100 on 1:25, 4 x 100 on 1:20, 5 x 200 on 2:40, 2 x 500 on 6:40, 2 x 100 on 1:15, and 1 x 100 cool down on 1:30 without missing any send offs...

Whereas the sun is finally out and I can at last feel that A Tale of Two Jimbys is not 50 percent fraudulent...

I herewith premier the first of the Thornton Twins Sunday Night Movie Feature Extraordinaire:

A Tale of Two Jimbys

A humble little filmic homage to one Mr. Charles Dickens, another scrivener (albeit infinitely more successful) who, like me, wrote for money and vlogged for love...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9Cd2D0NEs"]YouTube - Hoop Dee Doo with jim Thornton[/ame]