Vibram Fivefingers

This is the bandwagon, and I'm jumping onboard!

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/indexNA.cfm

As soon as I can track down a pair in my size, that is. And I'm not buying my first pair online, so my good friends at Bob Roncker's Running Spot will be hooking me up (www. runningspot.com). I'm curious to know if normal people are wearing these things, because so far all I can find are avid runners who swear that they're the next big thing in running. Personally, I don't plan to run in them any time soon - maybe after I've had a chance to get really comfortable in them. I'll keep people updated, especially as this may have some effect on my bionic metatarsal!

*update: January 31, 2010, Picked up my freak feet the other day, now we're all set to commence with the experiment.

Happy 2010

Ok, so I'm almost two weeks too late. But it's never too late to read your (dozens of) readers (worldwide) a happy new year. Unless you've done so already, then it's kind of awkward to do so again, and you cringe remembering having spoken to so-and-so already this year, but too late. Try it sometime, it's going to make you and them uncomfortable.

I haven't done anything exciting since we last met. Unless you think it's exciting to visit Texas and California. Then I have done two things exciting since we last met. Those are good ways to spend the holidays, southward and westward. I've been reminding people that we haven't had a white Christmas since 2006, with all the traveling we've been doing over the past few years. But I've never really needed a white Christmas, just a familiar one, and somehow we almost always manage one of those. Christmas 2008 was the only exception I can remember, and we still had a pretty good one with a couple who were in the same boat, and I at home, in a way. Mary and Alex, if you're out there, we should totally do Christmas x3 in some other random location. But let's keep doing it all last minute and not plan anything until the day is upon us!

I've got to get back to the work that matters now, so I hope I've entertained long enough to maintain my slim market share. Please feel free to ignore the guest book and comments sections, they're just part of the layout and I really don't read such things (or rather, wouldn't, if I knew how).