Thank You Sir May I Have Another

In preparation for the Jewish people's collective day of mourning I decided that a trip to the dentist was in order. It started out well enough. The dentist was happy that I was only in for a cleaning and nothing worse, and was quite impressed with my previous dentist's workmanship (points for Dr. Heinberg). In fact, things looked so rosy in my mouth that he almost didn't take x-rays. But he did. And upon inspection of said x-rays he found a cavity. A large cavity. A cavity that, had it been on any non-molar tooth, would have probably resulted in a root canal. On the bright side though, he was able to better show me Dr. Heinberg's excellent work on the x-rays. He numbed me up, cleaned my teeth, and filled the cavity. It was all relatively quick and painless. Tisha b'Av here I come!

On The Mend

Good news on the knee front. It's still a little tight, but I was able to run on it this morning.

On an unrelated note, tonight the next Harry Potter movie opens in Israel. Michelle and I will be catching the 10:30 show. Apparently all of Michelle's friends have been attempting to predict what will happen the end of the last book (due out this weekend) so I thought I would chime in. Really I don't have much to lose. If I'm right, I come off looking like a genius. If I'm wrong, I'm just another guy who got it wrong. Really, I don't know why everybody isn't doing it. Oh wait. they are.

Let me preface this by saying that I haven't read anybody else's predictions so if my prediction is the same as somebody else's I'll just have to chalk it up to mutual genius.

OK. We know that two main characters will die. We also know that either Harry or Voldemort has to die. Or Neville or Voldemort has to die. The prophesy is kind of vague like that. We have also been told repeatedly that Harry's biggest weapon is his capacity for love. With all of that in mind I predict that both Harry and Voldemort die (did you see that one coming?!?!?!). I see it working out like this: Voldemort is toying with Harry and tells him that he has to watch his friend die. Harry dives in front of the killer spell to save his friends and dies in the process. Because Harry is a horcrux Voldemort ends up killing himself as well. The prophesy was really talking about Neville (who maybe delivers the death blow to Voldemort). The end. Just remember that you heard it here first.

My B(ad)

So, about that last post. When I said that I was going to start stepping again. Didn't really work out that way. Unless you are living in opposite land, in which case I was stepping every day.

I guess it doesn't really matter now though, because while I haven't been stepping, I have been running. Or at least jogging. About 2 miles each morning this week (give or take) with some interval sprints at the end. I'm incredibly out of shape but any exercise is good exercise right?


All I really needed was a running partner and now that Meg is here I'm off to the races. Except that today my knee started hurting. Here's to hoping it feels better in the morning.

Step In Time

I was going to post a while ago about the "other" thing that I was doing to shed a few pounds about a month ago. But then a funny thing happened. I stopped doing it. As such, it didn't seem very appropriate for me to post about it. Was is this mysterious "it" that I was doing? Nothing other than Kathy Smith's Step Aerobics DVD that Michelle bought a while ago. Why am I suddenly posting about this now? Because I'm going to start doing it again starting tomorrow morning. Traveling knees, here I come.