At last Shel and I have a day to putter around with little to do and no one to see. She's been dying to get some music (she has a gift certificate waiting to be used right now, but isn't sure how best to use it), but hasn't been in a position to sit down and listen to anything new for a while. That used to be a common part of our life, as we'd regularly trip over to Barnes and Noble, with their Red Dot Net listening stations. Unfortunately, there's no B&N close to us, and Borders is a joke in this area. The Audiofilly is getting desperate!

So we're going to head into the city this afternoon and give Shel a thumping good dose of music sampling at the big B&N downtown. Also, I'm running the Bucktown 5k tomorrow, and we have to go by there and grab my race packet.

Speaking of which, I've been rather a slug this week when it comes to training. After the 20 miles of groundpounding on Monday, I loafed all week long. Hoping to get out early this evening for a jog, in advance of the race tomorrow. Mind you, I'm not really looking to break the land speed record tomorrow at all; I just want a bit of fun in the middle of my training for the Chicago Marathon. That, and you get a boatload of goodies for registering for this race. I need some more running togs, and you get a coolmax longsleeve T-shirt and a running cap (plus a thermos and some other schtuff) just for signing up.

Temperature is lovely, if a bit on the warm side; skies are blue and beautiful. Can't wait to get out and kick around with Shel.

EWS, why don't you get the heck out of Hurricane Alley and come up here for a coupla days? For those of you out of the loop, my sis just moved to Tampa. She closed on a house like two weeks ago, just in time for the first of three hurricanes to come blowing through. Fortunately, she's not sustained either damage or injury as yet, but with a Class 5 storm coming I'm feeling a bit on the nervous side.