I called around today looking for Brooks Cascadias and found a pair on sale for 20% off regular price. I will try them on tomorrow. If I like them then I will buy them. They are however, blue with white. I am hoping for neon green or yellow. Something a little more rad than plain blue, ugh!
My feet are going to be key and as important as what I nourish myself with on trail. I will be finally buying a bathroom scale to keep better record of weight loss than making new belt hook holes. My calender is hanging in the bathroom ready for the daily marks of weight loss and ticks off of days until adventure. Kick-off day already seems so close and yet I still have two semesters and summer school to complete this year. This 29 July will mark the last day of my 53rd year and the beginning of my 54th year. I will turn double nickle while on the trail and hopefully I should be somewhere north of Crater Lake by then. Maybe alone, maybe not, but on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Failure is not an option.
My only problem with this whole walk is that I will miss my daughter Ren's graduation from the University of Oklahoma in 2016 May. I do not know what 2017 will be like and I will be a year older blah blah blah. I really want to complete this journey sooner rather than later. As Mom used to say, "only time will tell." Then again lots of folks have said that before.
*So the birthday wish I just wished for is a way to fly from (probably Sacramento) to Oklahoma City for my daughter's graduation in Norman, Oklahoma, and then return to the trail after three days time. I can sleep in my tent if somebody in Norman will let me use their back yard. I'll also need a ride from OKC airport to Norman r/t and pray there will be a trail angel in Oklahoma who will help me. Only time will tell. I don't even know if she will be able to make it to my graduation from OSU-Tulsa December 2015 as it depends on her academic schedule. Time will tell.
I didn't sleep well last night and took a zero day today. Lots of thinking about Mom and Dad and school studying and just about everything else except sleep. No excuse to no exercise tho. I stuck with my current eating plan today and parked far from work to get in some kind of exercise. After work today at the usual time I found myself here at the OSU library again as always. I am afraid not to study. Here I am tho not at study and writing this blog because of (#1) the practice, (#2) your all's reading of this blog, and (#3) my personal need to tell my story. I write other stories which I hope to one day publish. I am working also on a children's book about handicaps. I never know which work is "correct" these days because what is and is not is always in a rapidly changing state of dynamics.
I had better begin reading for my Indian's in America class. Tomorrow's study will be reading for my Death and Dying class, and also for my Relationship class. Saturday I am volunteering at Tulsa Community Colleges Metro campus by helping the Honor's Program with their hosting of the regional NAQT trivia tournament. (I was a team member of the trivia team for two academic years.) Afterwards I will be all about researching for my independent study history class 1920-present and it's subject which Dr. Moses and I choose. The subject is the space race and the weaponization of rockets with nuclear devices; that includes the time of the Manhattan Projects inception and the security teams we sent to find Werner Von Braun. Nice easy subject, okay, interesting to the good Dr. and myself at least. Sunday will be a review day of everything school-wise.
Remember that by treating others with decency,
you are treating yourself well also. Peace. Hans
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