So yesterday I walked an hour to my local grocery store. I spent about a half hour there doing some writing, then walked another hour back home. Later that evening, after dinner, I walked back to the store a second time and did some more writing, only to walk home again. Each way is about 13.3 miles.

Doing some quick math here… 13.35 x 4 = 13.4

I included a quick trip to my mailbox on the last trip home which got me the extra .1.

I know I’ve mentioned wanting to do the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) once I retire from the state. I took this as an early practice dry run, ten years early. Now I realize that I wasn’t carrying any kind of load, I expect my pack to be around 50 pounds with gear, food, and water. That being said, my 13.5 miles took me roughly 4 hours. So long as I stay healthy and don’t have any long-term injuries, I expect my PCT trip to go well.

🙂

For beginner trekkers, it is recommended to keep your mileage under 20 per day for the first two weeks, at least until you start to build some tolerance.

Now today, I am feeling sore but it’s nothing a couple of Advils couldn’t fix. For the record, I’ve not taken any. I tend to ignore minor muscle aches, headaches however, those are my achilles-heel. (Do I get a Rim-shot?)

Okay, enough about that. Time to get started today on reviewing a peer fantasy story set in the dark ages where they use vocabulary words such as “conduits”, “toxins”, “inertia”, and other such oddities which only came about through industrialization and modernization. I swear, you can lead a dog to water, but there is nothing stopping them from pooping in their own water bowl.

(scratching my own head wondering what things of my own I am blind to?)

Oh, and I don’t mean to be cruel, but…

Is it that hard for the author to put a time stamp at the beginning of each of your sections with a timestamp/date, it doesn’t have to remain there permanently, it’s just so you can keep a good summary of how much time goes through each section of the story so you don’t end up with some long drivel that goes on and on and draws out time for unnatural lengths that completely boggle and confuse the time something could, or should, have taken so as to not confuse your intended reader with them trying to figure out what exactly is going on as the parts within it don’t seem to make chronological sense?

Was that a good enough example?

No?

Okay, it goes like this.

Jack and Jill, look up at the hill. Each is holding a pale of their own. Jack looks to Jill, “You ready?” Jill starts to nod but then says, “Wait, I want to change outfits first.” Jill then runs home and changes into her expeditionary outfit and then runs back. She then says “How do I look?” Jack’s reply is “You were fine before.” Jill scoffs and runs back home to change back into what she was wearing before. Upon arriving back she says to Jack, “Okay-” but then cuts herself off as inspiration strikes again. “I’ll be right back.” She runs home a second time and changes into a sexy red outfit. Upon getting back Jack says, “Really? You’re wearing that?” Agravated, Jill runs back home a third time and along the way, gets hit by a bus. She spends a few days in ICU and after another few weeks of healing, once again goes to meet Jack along the side of the hill. He’s still there, waiting for her, frozen in time. <<< THAT’S THE ISSUE

The timescale is WWWAAAAYYYY OOOOFFFFF

Okay, I think I’m done.

Tootles all

😛