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Well, I got back on track with my running tonight. I went to the Y and did a 5k on the treadmill (that's 3.1 miles) in just under 40 minutes. That's not anywhere near my best pace of just over 30 minutes but it's something. I'm not sure how I did it either. We'll see how I feel in the morning. I even managed a sort of smile after my run ... well ... it's a start. I suppose that my run tonight is an indication of how I've been lagging behind lately with various things. The job keeps me busy lately which makes it harder to do things like keep up with my blog, reading the other blogs that I used to read more often, and various other things like blogging about LOST and my last Scrabble club meeting. My blog tends to be a reflection of what is going on in my life and lately it has been some of this political stuff. Soon it will be Scrabble again as I have a tournament in Pittsburgh coming up the second weekend of June.

Speaking of Scrabble. I've been bad about posting about my club meeting last Saturday. It was a good club but only because I beat our club director, Brad, again. I had it handed to me in my last game but beating Brad was awesome! I'm heading to Huntington for a club meeting this weekend in our startup club. I'll try to blog about both this weekend. As for tonight I went home and played my dad in two games of Scrabble. I'll have to blog about that too. Maybe I'll do it now. The first game wasn't very close despite that dad led through the first 10 turns while I floundered with bad letters. Then I turned it around scoring 78 pts. in two turns and then hitting with a bingo of LEGENDS (66 pts.) and a few other high point plays for a final score of 354 to 278. I've been studying the list of "I" and "U" dumps while waiting around at some of these political things and managed to play several of them tonight like LUAU, IMPI, and IXIA.

Dad swore when I dropped that bingo and some of those big plays like ALOHA on a triple word score for 43 pts. Then the second game got started and dad got immediately flustered when I dropped the bingo SMARTIE on my second play for 82 pts. Dad came back with JEST on a triple for 62 pts. but he was still demoralized and this was made worse when I hit with EQUATOR for 92 pts. in the 8th turn. Now I was over 100 points ahead and dad said he didn't know if it was worth continuing on. I encouraged him not to think like that and reminded him to keep up with his attention on the list of 2s and 3s and the good high point letter plays. Then my play tapered off while dad hit with some good plays finishing with ZA for 48 pts. and BEYOND as his final play for 51 pts. putting him within 2 pts. of me until he got 8 pts. for what was left in my hand meaning that dad won by 6 pts. He was stunned as was I ... but I reminded him that if he had given up he would have lost miserably. It was a great game ... then I went to watch LOST which I had taped earlier. It was awesome!

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