December 8, 2009
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1 Snow!
2 There's snow in them thar hillz!
3 I loved waking up and going outside yesterday.
4 I got to my classroom, looked out the window and saw that the hills just up the street from the school got dusted with white powder.
5 I could literally walk to my huge cathedral window and see the snow right up in the wonderful hills of Sannozay.
6 Someone wrote me an e-mail yesterday and mentioned the Chill-on-the Hill, my nickname for EVHS, my place of employment.
7 It is well named this time of the year. Those hills above the school have always been a favorite romping ground for me whenever I would want to hop in the TOOOOOONDRA and get away from the whole world.
8 There's a place.
9 I go up there a lot. It is just SUCH a great place to go for a quick jaunt to get away from everybody and everything.
10 I almost went up yesterday, but had to finish writing up a test, and then I had to "hit the gym".
11 Haha!
12 "Hit the gym". I keep joking about that fad. It's a cool fad, and I'm now as mainstream as everyone else, because it's a healthy fad, but it is also funny to me that people always need to let you know when they've gone to "the gym". It's again like there's one Universal Gym that EVERYBODY seems to "hit" before they do something else.
13 When I was younger, I never "hit the gym", ever!
14 We would simply play sports, and not always organized sports. I would play basketball after school ever day, or during the summer, play baseball, sometimes three games on a given Saturday.
15 Also, my job "back-in-the-day" was awesome. In college, I had a part-time job selling concessions at college and professional sports events. I sold beer and peanuts and stuff at Niner/Raider/Stanford/Cal/Warriors/Rock Concerts/ and anything else that would need food at a stadium.
16 It was GREAT money and even GREATER exercise, running around at huge sporting and entertainment venues and running up and down stairs for four to five hours. It was also a sport of its own, because there was competition to see who could sell the most "loads" of beer or whatever.
17 We got a healthy 20% of what we sold, so it wasn't unusual way back when to make anywhere from $75 to $200 in a very short period of time, but really, the money was never the main event. Being the number one guy, or what they called in the business, "high man" was the crowning glory, if you sold more of the same product than everyone else.
18 We would sweat, move, turn, toss stuff, smile, laugh, and enjoy some of the greatest moments in the history of Bay Area sports. Some guys would travel the country going to different stadiums (is it stadia? who knows!), but I pretty much stayed local. We worked huge rock concerts, Big Games, playoffs, All-Star games, and yes, even Super Bowls!
19 I retired a coupla years ago, believe it or not. My last game was the Giants/Yankees two years ago, where I sold souvenirs, now called the very catchy "merch".
20 Anyway, working out used to involve sports with friends, or moving through a crowd and enjoying athletic competitions. Now it involves going to "the gym" and "working out". It isn't quite the same, because while I do go with partners occasionally, most people tend to go once or twice, and then hem and haw for a week or something.
21 So yeah, the gym is doing a lot of things healthwise, but there's something sort of cold and lonely about it all.
22 Nice to be healthy though. I go nearly every single day at around 5 p.m.
23 It's quick, and it's healthy, at least I THINK it's healthy. I'm really not so sure with all those people in there sweating and running and getting their sweat all over everything. The Pond proper has a sort of eerie glow to it, and several of the lights are always out. So it isn't always easy to get motivated.
24 But being 2009, it is THE thing to be doing, I imagine.
25 Honestly? I'd rather get a group together and play some basketball, always my exercise of choice when I was younger. I used to bring a ball down to this cool little schoolyard that had pine trees and all, and shoot around for a coupla hours.
26 So yeah, the gym is good, and it is clearly having a wonderful effect on most areas of my life, but I miss being able to just take off to the hills when it snows, or to cruise around in the T000000NDRA.
27 Yesterday I got a bit nostalgic for the hills, particularly when they had snow and pink clouds as the sun took its early departure. I wanted to turn right and go up there and cruise all through those hills. I LOVE driving through the hills and looking out on our hometown. It's a pretty special view, and always feels real.
28 Haha, the radio just told me that Mt. Hamilton is closed because of snow! How cool is that?
29 Welp, I had another DN written earlier, but this one feels like the right one. I sorta collapsed last night at around 9 p.m. I had spent all afternoon writing, running, and stapling together a test on the Golden Age of Greece, then I "hit the gym" for an hour, and then traveled home. I made some sort of healthy dinner, cleaned up, wrote a low-budget DN, and then conked out 'til around one a.m.
30 Not exactly my classic insomnia, but a willing substitute.
31 AnywayZ, I guess that's it for a Tuesday. I rather like getting Tuesdays out of the way, so I think I'll call it for today.
32 Fly low.
33 Have a lovely day, and enjoy the snow!
34 Peace.
~H~
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