Brian “Rip McStudly” Porter

The great trial of a dog is that their excitement to do anything immediately gets on the way of doing it.

My dad called me this evening to help him calculate the sodium and fat allowances that he is allowed to have in his hospital dinner. I didn’t know he was in the hospital. Apparently he had some stents put in.

Yeah, I just turned off the horny space mercenary harem anime to watch the “old guy” who likes cute characters anime.

I’m definitely not taking responsibility for this disaster, but the Ravens are 0-2 since Poe bumped into me before the start of the Baltimore Running Festival.

DFRC Threshold after Shame Walk 2x 15min @ 164 10:40 and 11:42 segments, full run, not one second in range. 5mi in 1:04 40-54F Felt embarassed sitting at the gym while my wife worked, so I walked treadmill. Then I came home and ran through the pain. It goes away while running.

My wife is playing Dreamlight, driving me crazy with Disney music. Little does she know that, come Nov 1, I will wreak a terrible vengeance called Christmas With The Rat Pack.

DFRC Clack cancelled Put on my shoes. Popped my back. Gonna sit at the gym and wait for my wife.

“Your WiFi knows where you are in your house” is NOT a positive.

DFRC Long Run 1:30 @ 139 7.1 total 49-57F Good long run, got my 10K in 1:22:22, which was 4 minutes off that race.

BioWare fans think Mass Effect 3 was good, and Dragon Age 2 was bad, so I don’t give a shit what else they think.

Sometimes I kind of miss getting homemade popcorn balls for Halloween. They weren’t even in wax paper or anything most of the time, and they certainly weren’t Nerds, but one was all the candy you needed in a sitting.

DFRC Base 5.37 1:15 49-55F Ok run today. Watch wanted 34min because my wife woke me up when she came to bed, so I got little sleep. But I felt I needed more than that, so I went over. Didn’t feel awful, but o did feel tired.

The death of BioWare has led to some of the most amazingly “mask off” incel takes I’ve seen in a while. That’s all the more surprising considering how they’re reacting to GTA6

DFRC Anaerobic Clack 7x:40 @ Haul Ass Most in the 8’s, one under. Abs acting up, back acting up, still did my business.

A couple winters ago, I decided to let my traditional Santa beard grow stay past the new year to keep me warm in winter running. In general I like it. But now our senior cat buries her head in it and knocks my chin around scratching herself on it. Not a fan of that.

The screenshot of Taash screaming in Veilguard that the anti woke clowns use is interesting. It’s from an incredibly cruel scene where Taash witnesses the brutal murder of their beloved mother. You’d think that crowd would a scene of wild cruelty.

The final battle of Fortune’s Weave was WILDLY unfun. If there was a tactic besides running around screaming, or a fully meta party, I didn’t see it.

DFRC Clack and Base 1:01 @ 138 1:04:50 to 5mi 36-43F Cut my gym workout a bit short due to back twinges, but it felt good on the run.

I watch an English YouTuber who repairs lawnmowers. It’s fun to watch him work, but runs contrary to my imagined stereotype that all English landowners have servants who roll their lawns flat.

What the hell is wrong with the Chargers, seriously?

I’m an awful person in a lot of ways, but abandoning trans people because it’s not a profitable political issue is unpalatable to me. The fervor with which the political machine is moving against trans people worldwide is exactly why it’s unconscionable to pit them to the side.

Can I pick a fight with the dictionary next?

All of the available Baltimore Running Festival Medals

DFRC Baltimore Running Festival 10K 1:18:44 47-43F Very good run! Crushed the 1:25 I was hoping for. The layout of the race was a big help. It’s uphill BIG TIME for mile one, a bit less so in mile 2, and then pretty much down hill from 2.5 on.

DFRC Good result, post more later. Still milling around and chewing Cow Tales

The rain has subsided, it’s a dark and windy 47F, and I’m half an hour from the 10K. Shielding myself from the wind in a corner of Camden Yards

Beginning the drive down to Baltimore for my 10K and there’s rain coming down. Hopefully it’ll clear out before the race. Kind of wish this thermal inversion would’ve happened about two damn weeks ago.

DFRC 10K tomorrow! Clack and run Watch flaked out big time, didn’t record an official run, but I did 30 minutes by time after a ramped down gym session. Ready for tomorrow.

I just pulled 6 home made bread bowls out of the oven and the smell will be killing me for hours

DFRC Clack and Base 3 Days until Baltimore and my last base run is over. Felt fine, even though I started at 65F, 20+ degrees higher than they’re forecasting for Saturday. Off tomorrow, then sprinting shakeout Friday unless my watch decides to be cool

My favorite Fortunes Weave fighters are Mu the Dread, Goatran, and Noc-U-Outula

Durin’s Folk Running Club Realized I haven’t been posting for a few days, but workouts are continuing as normal. Feeling good for Baltimore.

Gasoline has a fairly short shelf life. It’s gonna last a few months in a car before starting to break down, maybe a couple years with the right additives in a storage tank. When someone in a post apocalyptic world siphons from an overgrown highway, they siphon LIES!!!

I go to the gym three times a week. I’d say somewhere between a third and a half of the crowd, all genders, wear tight clothes of some kind. And they generally either look miserable or kinda mad. That’s how I categorize gym folk: mad or miserable. I’m a miserable.

Obviously they raided Rep. Omar’s house to try and swing the vote, I’m sure, but how does that not help her? Her supporters will probably be energized by it, her detractors weren’t gonna vote for her anyway, and anyone who was “on the fence” either wasnt really, or might see the obvious Fed scam.

Maybe people don’t like Digger because it’s uncomfortable to see Cruise looking his actual age.

When I was a freshman in college (2000) they twice made every guy living in the dorms watch videos about what rape was and why it was bad. At the time it felt deeply insulting. “Who would fucking do these things”, we would ask. The next 25 years made it all too clear.

DFRC 8 Days Until Bmore Sprint 7x:10 @ All Out (that’s what it said) 6:49,6:54, 6:59, 7:02, 7:12, 7:14, 7:37 not in that order. 54-60F Back after a needed day off to start my taper, did a good job today I think.

There’s something amazingly disingenuous about college coaches who recruited dozens of players through the old system of under the table payments complaining that players are getting paid now.

Sometimes I turn up anime because I can’t hear the words. The words that I don’t understand.

I’m only in Act 2 of E-Day, but it’s making it seem like the Locust attacked too soon. The post war depression doesn’t seem to have fully set in yet, and too much of the military is still combat ready. There could be more involved later on, but a few more months might’ve helped them.

The acid spitters in E Day sound so much like a cat gacking that I want to see a pic of the cat they used as the audio source

I’m off from running on this chilly morning, so the pets are enjoying.

It wasn’t even 7am when my wife started wanting to talk about this Dell robot Maralago face lady

The really great thing about watching a show with my wife is that I can sometimes hear the show over her and the dog snoring. (Not really, I can’t)

This commercial for the LA lava disaster 911 show is the dumbest fucking TV show premise I’ve seen in a long time.

And this fucking “reborn saint” anime is a “special sailor got betrayed” show too. It speaks to the perceived anger within your potential fans that you create works premised on betrayal.

It’s kind of silly that I’ve run 42k a few times, 21k maybe two dozen times, but the 17th will be the first time I ever race 10k.