Went jogging today. I don’t know how long exactly, because I went on a new route that I haven’t mapped out yet, but it felt like about 4 miles. It was, as any rate, long enough to make me feel humble. That’s the nice thing about jogging; no matter how good you are, you can always push yourself far enough to feel humble. I went out to the main road that runs past my development, which, and I am not making this up, is called Apex-Barbeque Road, and just ran along it. At one point, and for no apparent reason, the road becomes an unpaved, gravel road, and then, a quarter mile later, again for no apparent reason, it goes back to being paved again. It was the middle of the day, but there were only a handful of cars. The leaves had turned colors on about half the trees; the other half were evergreens like the ones I have in my back yard, so they’ve remained stubbornly green against the seasonal backdrop of reds and yellows and oranges. And then, still for no apparent reason, the road ended, merged into a larger, busier road, and I decided it was time to stop and catch my breath and stretch and turn around and come home. There is a horse farm at that intersection, and as I leaned against the fence to stretch my muscles and feel the burn in my lungs, a beauitful white horse came trotting up to me and whinnied. I know nothing about horses except that they are generally gentle, and can eat from your hand if you have anything worth eating, and like to be pet on their snouts. So, lacking anything worth eating, I pet her on her snout a few times and said nice things in a quiet voice, and I didn’t feel anything the whole way home except gratitude for being alive.
On a side note: “whinnied” is one probably of the top ten least-frequently-used words in the worldwide weblog community. If you maintain your own weblog, your task for today is to find a way to use “whinnied” in a sentence. I’ll be checking DayPop to see the most creative results.
anygui, a Python package to provide a common set of APIs to multiple backend GUI toolkits. Slashdot discussion. SourceForge project. comp.lang.python threads.
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