Don’t Leave Me

Good walk for my rest day: 3.79 miles and worked up a sweat. I’m looking forward to running tomorrow.

Now my story…there’s quite a story to tell but first we’ll begin with the AC Weekday breakfast.

• 1/3 cup mixture of: Cream of Rye + Steel cut oats
• Lots of water
• 1/2 banana, sliced
• 1 TBS raisins
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 TBS Naturally More Peanut Butter

The fruit was 1/2 a large pink grapefruit. 

The protein shake was 1 scoop VPX Zero Carb Chocolate with lots of ice and water (about 12 oz) in my Apple Crumbles mug. That made it taste so much better.

The second part of my story is this movie review:

“Old Dogs”  is a very funny movie. Can’t go wrong with John Travolta and Robin Williams.  Story about 2 guys who are finally getting the contract of their dreams for their company. Along comes an old flame of Robin Williams who puts a real big surprise in the picture.  Highly recommended.

The third part of my story happened at work which is the reason for the title of this post.

It was about 4 pm and only my partner and I were at work. Everyone else leaves at 3:30pm.  I hear a bang, bang, bang and then the voice of a kid.  I look out the front window and see 3 kids throwing rocks at a construction van. They broke the window of the van!  I told my business partner what was going on and he said “call 911” as he rushed out the door. I was thinking…”this isn’t an emergency…but now he’s out there and how if those kids throw big rocks at him?….okay… NOW it’s an emergency”.  So I called and explained the situation and the police were sent.  My partner stayed outside holding the kids bikes until the local officers arrived.  Apparently those kids have been in trouble before. Why was I not surprised at that?!!!

 DON’T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!  I just want to explain that almost every day, everyone leaves at 3:30 pm except me.  On occasion, like yesterday, my partner stays late.  But on those day’s I’m alone…what if those kids want to get even?  What if they break OUR windows?  What if they do it when I’m there alone?   I have 3 passifying thoughts:  1. We have close neighbors  2. We have an alarm system,  and  3.  The police are about 1/4 mile down the road.   I think Shane is going to have to start putting in some hours with me at the office.

Finally, we went looking for new bikes for our summer travels.  First stop Dick Sonne’s on Commercial drive. This is the one I really wanted but it wasn’t for sale: The Harley!

The shop bought it years ago for $3000 and the salesman wasn’t even going to talk to me about selling it.  So we talked about these bikes. 

We’ll have to consider helmets as well. I really liked this one but Ted had some choice words about it.

Ted and I will do more bike research this weekend or next week. The most important feature:  SHOCK ABSORBTION!

After the bike mission, we stopped at The Hook Line and Sinker to watch Syracuse play Butler.

We had some really good drinks and eats:  We had Excelsior Chardonnay = buttery and good legs. Nice Chard.  We enjoyed popcorn. 

Love the extensive salad bar at the Hook with the fresh mussels. The Hook is the only restaurant where Ted and I like mussels.  We won’t eat them any where else and if they come in a fish platter, we leave them.

Not real crazy about the bread…

For main eats: Ted had Baked Seafood (broiled Boston haddock, sea scallops, stuffed jumbo shrimp, and 4 oz cold water lobster tail). 

Joanne had Honey Soy Salmon (Baked salmon fillet marinated in honey and soy served over garlic sautéed spinach).

The coffee was smooth, not too strong, not too weak.

Great night for eats, bad night for basket ball.

Oh well, maybe next year.

TGIF  guys!

Joanne