Lion ponderings

   Another run down to document the empty field after the ground breaking for the new theater & the field wasn't empty.  They're just breaking ground & clearing the field simultaneously. Made a potato quality panorama from the phone.  Not sure why the phone did such a lousy job stitching this one.   Upon further inspection, previous panos were equally bad but didn't have as many horizontal lines.  It's absolutely piss poor compared to manually stitching a video but it provides a documentation grade 2k image.  Vibe coding a pano tool might give better results.  There were unsuccessful attempts to do it with Cinelerra's motion tracker.    Cooler weather & a serious hydration effort led to a much improved run down.  It finished at 72F.  Didn't cramp, though took many breaks to test for seizing.  Still finished with orange urine.    Soul crushing situation.    Bilateral posterior tibialis p...

Baby it's clear outside   Introducing the negative split 1000m. Just kicking the last 100m up a notch. Been rapidly getting more intense since daily stretches of the hamstring tendons & daily knee activations. Vastly more intense than it was before the last marathon, but much less distance. Stretching the tendon just to the point of triggering it seemed to really boost the recovery.   Helas, 18.7 miles the next day ended in hamstring cramp. It responded briefly to electrolyte drink, but it took a lot of electrolyte drink to massage it all the way home.  Stretching the hamstring while standing seemed to keep it alive. It seemed to originate in the tendon. At least the lion kingdom aligned the end with the supplies, based on prior knowledge. 18 has consistently been the bingo point, no matter the pace, the nutrients, or the weather.    That yielded the final photos of the theater demolition. Noted what appeared to be the curtain in the rubble. 1 of th...

 1 week later with the junk camera, caught the last bit of the tower coming down.   Trying to breathe through the shirt, got a face full of 90 year old highschool concrete, undoubtedly excavated near Stanley Blvd. No wonder they had to finish during summer.  The shirt smelled like cringy memories all day.         Slowly, the claw dug into those cringy memories.  That claw didn't mess around.     There were just a few names left inside what remaned.  Undoubtedly many more fell during the work week & many more were hidden under plaster, never to be seen again.    Paul Mehlin 1937 could be related to the 19th century piano maker.  They seemed to be all boys, wood shop carpenters, sound technicians. They seemed to peak in the stagflation 70's & drop off by the late 80's economic boom.  As the town became affluent, perhaps students became more preppy & didn't do such things anymore.  The section vis...

  Lions get nostalgic for dreary days of long ago, during extended heat waves.  Stroads worked when there wasn't a lot of traffic.  Not so much in today's extremely crowded world.  Most of the stroads existed before lions drove.  Crow Canyon was the local stroad.  It's manely shuttered now.   A lot of lion childhood was spent on Newark Blvd, Santa Rita Rd.  Lions would live on a stroad in Titusville.  Ocala has similar rents, for now.  The best deals are all low income but not age restricted, so they only show up on apartments.com instead of after55.com.  The income limit is $40k.  Upon retirement, it'll probably be $60k.  The object of the game is to distribute enough IRAs & make enough interest to get above the ACA minimum, below the ACA maximum & below the rental maximum.  Of course, full price might be a better experience.  FL*rida now has joined Calif* in rent inflation. Reviewing weather d...

      The fabled girl's gym had a fire 1 year ago, right when lions were in NY.  It was once intriguing because it was a 70 year old building with a really labor intensive, flimsy truss roof.  Some brightness tweeking can barely reveal the labor intensive bits looking exactly like lions remembered.  It was since renamed the small gym after the banning of genders. Young lion assumed an earthquake would eventually bring it down. Who knew the deed would finally be done by fire. What little was shown looked a lot smaller & lower than lions remembered.  The basketball nets were exactly what lions last saw 30 years ago.   https://www.independentnews.com/news/education_news/pleasanton-school-board-gives-green-light-to-85m-makeover-for-amador-valley-high-school/article_7d3874be-e3fb-11ef-9146-0b9b0fb54cbe.html They got a $1.75 mil insurance settlement, but instead of repairing it & reopening it, they moved towards demolishing it after 100 yea...