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Started on an intense war against old age today. Always been somewhat obscessive about fitness, but this will be more intense. 10 miles a day running[5/5] working on speed; upper body workouts 5 days a week. I was wandering the interweb and ran across the Svetlana Romanova site, absolute fitness perfection. No more junk food binges, hope I can maintain the discipline and the old bones hold out. Polishing the abs up will be the big push, but general improvement will be the side benefit. Got the gardens and vineyard in pretty good shape, so I can give the fitness about 3 hours a day over the Summer. My big problem is Winter, I hate cold and have a hard time getting out to run in the Winter. Takes about a mile and a half for my hands to get warm, guess its all the blood going to my legs 'til the heart and lungs catch up. Don't have a treadmill, so if my brain wont let me outside, the Winter is always a fat-fest. I keep talking about another marathon, but winter always kills the plans, long since over promises, but maybe next year.

Trying to find some truely new music, anybody heard anything that wasn't "me too"? The last 5 years has been a big music dryspell, can't stand to listen to the radio at all anymore. I did hear Alabama Shakes on Letterman a few weeks ago, kinda retro but a fresh sound. Kerli is somewhat bearable, gues I've always had a spot for EuroDub. The Eastern Block is starting to produce some promising noise in the last few years, Estonia and Romania has some surprising things if you dig deep.

Funny, how during the cold war, when I was in the military we were always told how butt ugly the Soviet women were. With my new found weakness for Ukrainian ballet dancers, I would have been a loyal card carrying communist for life if I had experienced them first hand. The fall of the Wall has turned loose a wave of the most devastating beauty I have ever seen in my life, a challenge even to Mxico.

My brain's empty now, hoping Y'all have a great Summer, I'm off to run a few miles.