Bag + pushups

Thanks Kathy for the awesome tote bag! It came in the mail today and I have been trying to think of all the sweet things to tote around. I finished Sunrise over Fallujah last night (at 12:30, after I went to bed at 11) so I will probably go to the library with Soapy tomorrow and we'll see how it works out. Probably the librarians will be jealous of my sweet prize and wish that they had placated me with a win. But no. This is better than anything I could have won from Lincoln City Libraries. Thanks Kathy.

Also, I was sitting at my desk at work trying to think of a new goal and I decided to do 300 pushups before I go to bed tonight. I figured that maybe if I did that, then I would have a good story to tell, and if I didn't then I would have an even better story to tell.
Anna came and picked me up from work (I usually ride my bike, but I have been getting a lot of flat tires lately and I work seven miles from home and it is annoying to fix a tire in the work parking lot and the pump I use gives me blood blisters but mostly I am lazy) and I told her about my goal:
Anna: "Wow" She responded in a disappointingly neutral tone "Are you sure you want to do that?"
Me: (deflated and worried I wasn't impressing her) "Why, isn't that a lot though? Won't you be impressed?"
Anna: "Well, its just that it will take a long time and you will waste both of our evenings."
Me: "Whatever. I will do them in like, 5 seconds. I will do them while I catch up on those THREE EPISODES of Heroes you watched while I wasn't there."
Anna: "Man. You are totally right. I am scum and I should probably go buy you some ice cream to go with the brownies that I always want. I realize now that brownies without ice cream are offensive and even though I won't ever take any of your ice cream, I will never have any unless we have ice cream to accompany it."
Me: "I am glad you see it my way."

That is verbatim. But actually Anna is hard to impress. 300 pushups should be enough to impress anyone, right? I think she is beginning to get too used to me. I think my only solution is to run 700 miles away for 6 months.