Taking a page from the Karate Kid… "Paint the fence Daniel-son."

Well not exactly paint. I set out to seal the wood reverse scalloped fence that contains my dogs into a half-acre, third-wooded, canine wonderland. Yesterday, I walked both sides of the fence spraying off all of the dirt and spiders with an extremely long hose (actually 3 long hoses). Today I painted it.

Notes on painting a fence - any fence but especially a not contiguous fence…

• Buy a paint sprayer. You can get a good one for around $300. If you can’t afford the sprayer you can’t afford the fence. Go chain link. Besides the sealant itself will cost you more than that. I personally went through 18 gallons of sealant and one fairly young back covering my fence.
• Get the longest lasting sealant you can find. Trust me. After the first time you won’t want to do it again any time soon. You’ll be kicking yourself for not paying $20 more for the 5 year sealant instead of the 2 year.
• Schedule a massage.

Oh yeah, I finished in one day, but shortly afterwards I collapsed for about an hour on my back before I could get up and walk again. The cause? Well apparrently far to times stooping to reach the bottom of the fence. Some quick calculations revealed that I covered around 950 feet of fence (you have to do both sides) with about a 6" spayer. Add in cross braces and such and that’s 2000+ reps with a 2 lb barbell - oh I mean spray nozzle.

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Nice ride today… slipped in between thunderstorms.

• Bike 12.44miles - 58:59 (12.6mph pace, 553 cal) 

 Have I mentioned that I hate to run… oh well, not going to let stand in my way…

• Run 3.22miles - 36:48 (11:26/mile pace, 471 cal)
• Cooldown .63miles (103 cal)
• Pullups: 15
• Pushups: 60
• Crunches: 230

Looking forward to my day off tommorrow… 

• Run 2.67miles - 28:35 (10:42 pace, 402 cals)
• Cooldown .6miles (90 cals)
• Pullups: 12
• Pushups: 45
• Crunches: 170

Yeah, it really speaks for itself…

Ok, you probably still have questions.  Imagitales.com allows you to customize your kid's books with THEIR photo.  Making your child the star of his (or her) favorite books! 

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More progress on my training… just a quick note: for easier review, I always list my training on the date it occurred regardless of if I post it that day or the next..

• Bike 9.26 miles - 42:19 (13.1mph pace, 425 cal)
• Pullups:20
• Pushups: 50
• Crunches: 150

Lots of rain today.  So I took an easy day.

• Pullups: 12
• Crunches: 250 

I have decided to dust off a training schedule I discovered over 2 years ago: Train Like A Navy Seal. I was wanting a little structure in my training… which for me is strange. But I thought, I'd try a schedule and see how it goes.  I plan on easing myself into this schedule by covering the first week over two.  No sense in pulling/straining/tearing something in the beginning.

I decided to do a warmup run today, since it's been a few weeks since my last time lacing up.

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Here's a pic of "my dogs" returning from a weekend junket in the Smokies.  While they enjoyed the rustic cabin, I believe they enjoyed the trip to and from even more.

On the 5 year anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11, the country reflects on both how we got there and where we go from here.  And not just the country - the movie industry does as well and gets vastly different responses.

Part 1 of The Path To 9/11 aired last night - HEAVILY edited due to pressure from President Clinton and his administration.  I can say with confidence that it was heavy editing as it was 20 minutes shorter than it's time slot.  These weren't small changes.

ABC bows to Clinton pressure and edits 9/11 series

The American television network, ABC, aired its controversial mini-series about the build-up to the September 11 attacks last night, but only after issuing three disclaimers that the drama was fictional and editing scenes that had attracted the wrath of Bill Clinton and members of his administration….

The version of the film given to reviewers emphasised that it was based on the findings of the 9/11 Commission report and suggested that the Clinton White House directly interfered with attempts to kill bin Laden, who later went on to direct the attacks.

Last week, the former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, the former National Security Adviser, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, and the head of the Clinton Foundation, Bruce Lindsey, wrote to Robert Iger, the chief of executive of Disney, which owns ABC, asking him to cancel the show. Harvey Keitel, one of the stars of the $40 million production, also said it should be re-edited.

Last night that pressure appeared to have had an effect: several controversial scenes had been edited and some had been removed altogether. A disclaimer reminded viewers three times that they were watching a fictionalised rather than a historical account of the years before the attacks.

Several commentators have already cried foul and hippocrocy, since the Clinton Administration had no problem with Micheal Moore's film Fahrenheit 911.  Which most will agree took -uh- great creative license with the facts surrounding 9/11.

Meanwhile another docu-drama is focusing on the future resulting from the 9/11 attacks.  The quite near future of 2007 in fact.  October 2007, when President Bush is successfully assassinated in Chicago.  Supporters are quick to point out that only recently a fictitious former president was assassinated in the hit show 24.  Not exactly the same as displaying the depicting the assassination of a CURRENT SITTING PRESIDENT.

Film Festival Director Raves About 'Assassinate Bush' Movie

(CNSNews.com) - "Xenophobia, the hidden costs of war and the nature of civil liberties in a hyper-media age all come under the microscope" in a controversial movie depicting the fictional assassination of President Bush. [say what?]

So says Noah Cowan, director of the Toronto Film Festival, where the British-made movie will premier on Sept. 10….

Until now, the movie has been referred to by the Toronto Film Festival as simply "D.O.A.P.," but at a press conference in Britain Thursday, it was announced by the title "Death of a President"….
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