Orange Street Loop/First Tee/Levy Loop Classic

I walked the Orange Street Loop this morning in 44:04. It's 31°F at 8:22 p.m. I plan to golf later this morning, when it should be in the mid- to upper-40s.

I played First Tee from the middle tees this morning and afternoon in 96, with nines of 51 and 45. I had 2 pars, 10 bogies, 4 doubles, and 2 triples, and used 34 putts.

Starting at 6:30 or so, I walked Levy Loop Classic in 31:37.

River Trail/Chandler Street Loop

Samantha was licking herself in the front yard when I returned from a six-mile walk and jog at the River Trail. I did an out-and-back from the Big Dam Bridge in 1:18:10. This evening I walked the Chandler Street Loop in 46:30.

GREEN BAY PACKERS 101.63, MUDVILLE NINE 84.49: The Green Bay Packers (9-3) easily survived a late rally by the Mudville Nine (0-11) to win their ninth consecutive game, and to insure themselves a spot in the 2011 Democrat Football League playoffs. With a victory next week, the Packers will finish the season as no worse than the second seed, and thus have a bye into the Cooper Bowl semifinals for the third consecutive season.

38th Street Loop

I walked the 38th Street Loop this afternoon in 31:12. I haven't seen Sam since Saturday night. I thought she'd show up when it quit raining, but she hasn't. Sam is my least favorite of these cats, but, man, I miss her. I'm about a day short of stapling Zeroxed photos of her to telephone poles (that written, I recognize that the time I've heretofore spent worrying about these fucking cats was wasted. They're expert at taking care of themselves, I know).

Maple Street Loop/Hash

We had an eighteen-hour rain. It's stopped now. The final bit of drizzle fell as I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 32:29. I jogged and walked for 42:41 with the Hash this afternoon from Knoop Park, so probably covered about three miles.

Sweetheart Loop/Orange Street Loop

I walked the Sweetheart Loop in 48:01 this morning. I saw the red cat again, only he was up a different driveway. He came running and meowing. It started to rain when I was about two minutes from home, and, at 6:21 p.m., it hasn't stopped. I got in about five minutes ago from walking and jogging the Orange Street Loop in 37:53.

38th Street Loop/33rd Street Loop

I walked the 38th Street Loop this morning in 31:01. Late this afternoon through early evening I walked and jogged the 33rd Street Loop in 1:00:40. My splits were 12:52, 13:02, 12:21, 11:26, and 11:00.

Maple Street Loop

I just learned watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade that a chemist named Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid, and also that the inflated Kool-Aid pitcher guy has a hand that's six-feet long. Before that, I walked and jogged the Maple Street Loop in 26:14. That's all I'll do today, except watch football, and attempt to fry and eat the four pounds of oysters I bought last night.

Levy Loop Classic/Orange Street Loop

I walked Levy Loop Classic this morning in 30:21, and this evening I walked and jogged the Orange Street Loop in 37:43. My longest jog was about three minutes. It takes a jog for me to feel the nugget of soreness deep in my right calf. I gave tomorrow as the over-under on when it would be one-hundred percent healed. I think I'll move that to sometime next week. I'll say Monday.

Okay, forget the girls at the Nashville Pizza Hut or Walmart. When A Different Closet sells its five-hundred thousandth copy, I now plan to marry Kristen, the waitress at the Texarkana Red Lobster who dropped out of TCU to raise money and who aspires to be a fashion designer.

Orange Street Loop/Maple Street Loop

I walked the Orange Street Loop through heavy mist this morning in 45:55. My right calf remains a little sore. It feels as if there is a small lump in it. It's cancer, I'm sure.

My cancer diagnosis was confirmed this afternoon when I walked the Maple Street Loop in 33:41.

38th Street Loop/Levy Loop

I walked the 38th Street Loop this afternoon in 33:45. My calf feels much better. I'll put the over-under on it being one-hundred percent at three days, or Thanksgiving morning. And it felt even better this evening, when I walked the Levy Loop in 31:49.

The DFL Green Bay Packers didn't play very well, but the No. 1 Complete Sellouts have really underachieved. We lead 89.77-65.61. The Sellouts have New England tight end Rob Gronkowski going tonight against Kansas City. If Gronkowski scores 24.37 or more points, we lose. In nine games, he's done that twice. The NFL Packers beat Tampa Bay something like 35-27 to improve to 10-0.

GREEN BAY PACKERS 89.77, COMPLETE SELLOUTS 88.53: Rob Gronkowski caught his second touchdown pass with 10:27 left in the third quarter, causing the Packers to shit themselves, but he failed to catch another pass, and the Packers held on for their eighth consecutive victory. At 8-3, the Packers are now in second place in the sixteen-team Democrat Football League, one game behind the Sellouts with two games left in the regular season.

Levy Loop

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 47:11 to extend my streak of at least walking two miles to three years, one-hundred and twenty-four days. My calf feels better than I expected it to, but it will have to feel quite a bit better tomorrow or I'll start a new streak whenever I can again walk comfortably.

Pinnacle Mountain

I was about ten steps past the peak of Pinnacle Mountain when I pulled my right calf muscle. It's not as bad as the left-calf pull from June of 2006, but I wasn't sure of that as I limped down the mountain. I was doing the six-mile loop from the Visitors' Center. It took me 52:26 to get to the top, and then 1:59:43 to go down the west side, around, and back to my car. I was out for a total of 2:52:09. Now I'll spend a day of ice, ibuprofen, meat, and football. I might buy beer.

Maple Street Loop/Orange Street Loop

I walked and jogged the Maple Street Loop this morning in 25:05, and the Orange Street Loop late this afternoon in 40:02.

35th Street Loop/Rebsamen Park Golf Course/Humpin' Hash

I walked and jogged the four-mile 35th Street Loop through dark gray, windy bluster this morning in 54:29.

It was too wet to golf today, so to make up for the lost exercise I walked the cart path for eighteen holes at Rebsamen Park Golf Course. It took me 1:25:58. I guess I walked about five and a half miles.

I was out with the Humpin' Hash for thirty-eight minutes this evening. We began and ended at Hanaroo Sushi Bar on Capitol, about two blocks from the Democrat-Gazette Building. I jogged most of the way, and Misty's iPhone said we covered 3.22 miles.

I failed to write yesterday that the DFL Packers won their seventh consecutive game with a 150.12-109.51 victory over the Fat Chicks. We're 7-3 and in third place. We play the first-place Complete Sellouts this weekend. The NFL Packers beat the Minnesota Vikings, 45-7, and are 9-0.

Chandler Street Loop

I walked the Chandler Street Loop through a driving rain tonight in 45:39.

River Trail/Orange Street Loop

I bit off a little too much this morning. I alternated one-minute jogs with two-minute walks to complete ten miles on the River Trail, out and back from The Big Dam Bridge, in 2:10:54, with splits of 12:22, 12:20, 12:50, 13:35, 12:51, 13:20, 13:13, 13:20, 13:36, and 13:26. I was cooked at the end.

Late this afternoon I walked the Orange Street Loop in 46:09.

The DFL Green Bay Packers lead Walt Webb's Fat Chicks 114.92-93.82. I have quarterback Aaron Rodgers going for the NFL Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football tonight. Walt has Green Bay tight end Jermichael Finley, and Green Bay kicker Mason Crosby. The only way I can lose is if Rodgers gets hurt early, and some other quarterback throws three or more touchdown passes to Finley, or if Rodgers gets hurt or doesn't score and Crosby sets the NFL record for field goals in a game.

Maple Street Loop/Hash

I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 31:14. This afternoon I jogged and walked for 1:09:54 with the Hash, mostly with a pretty med student named Allison, in Pinnacle Mountain State Park. I'm guessing we covered about five miles.

Ridge Road Loop/Levy Loop Classic

I walked the Ridge Road Loop this morning in 57:44. Late this afternoon, at dusk, I walked Levy Loop Classic in 30:40.

Ghetto Cat Loop/First Tee

I walked and jogged the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 26:55.

I played First Tee from the middles this morning and afternoon in 105, with nines of 55 and 50. I had 3 pars, 7 bogies, 3 doubles, 3 triples, 1 quadruple, and 1 hexagonal (I hit the par-four 7th on the first nine in six, and five-putted for an 11). I used 34 putts, so not bad except for the five-putt. A five-putt. Fuck. I played with Mark Burk, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose wife is here for cancer treatment at UAMS.

Levy Loop/Chandler Street Loop

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 30:00 (29:59.56 to be exact). This evening, starting at about five o'clock, I walked the Chandler Street Loop in 43:16. I walked the final, downhill mile in 13:26.

OVERHEARD
"My mom said, 'I don't understand. Why doesn't he just drive himself down there to get it?' "
—Tim Cooper, telling me today what his mother said when he told her he was driving me to Nashville so I could bring my car back to Levy

Sweetheart Loop/Humpin' Hash

Two things. First, my legs felt great this morning. It seemed as if I walked slowly, but I finished the Sweetheart Loop in 45:20. Maybe I'll be able to keep up a little better if I run with the Humpin' Hash this evening. Secondly, I had a rare cat experience today. I might get one of these every couple of years or so; a cat in the wreck of a neighborhood on the other side of 47th Street, a half a mile from here, toward the end of my walk, ran from the street up a driveway toward his house when he saw me approach. He turned and hunched down, thirty feet from the street. Just as I reached the base of the driveway, he meowed. I stopped and made the clicking sound that I make with my tongue to attract pets. The cat stepped forward a foot or so, then hesitated. I sat on my heels, repeated the sound, and, as I expected, he jogged to me, and purred as I petted him and picked him up. He was an orange tiger cat, short hair, maybe a pound or two heavier than Jo. I hope to see him again.

Man, I felt good running with the Humpin' Hash this evening. According to a Misty's iPhone®, we covered a total of 4.34 miles, from the Town Pump to Cajun's Wharf, then back to the Town Pump. I jogged nearly non-stop for 48:34.

38th Street Loop/First Tee

I walked the 38th Street Loop this morning in 31:16. My legs were deader than Joe Frazier's chance to recapture the Heavyweight crown. It's gorgeous out, partly cloudy, warm, windy, packed with the typical pastel colors of fall. The leaves looked like butterflies. It should be a good day for a round of shitty golf.

This may sounds nuts, but for the first day with a golf club in my hand since August 23, I was pleased by my round of 108 at First Tee today. I scored nines of 56 and 52. I had 2 pars, 6 bogies, 5 doubles, 2 triples, 1 quadruple, and 2 pentagonals. Blow up holes killed my score. I used 30 putts.

Chandler Street Loop/Levy Loop

I walked the Chandler Street Loop this morning in 45:58, and walked and jogged the Levy Loop early this afternoon in 27:11.

The DFL Green Bay Packers won their sixth consecutive game and improved to 6-3 with their 115.71-64.47 victory over the Dadburn Gallinappers. The NFL Green Bay Packers are 8-0 after their 45-38 victory over the San Diego Chargers.

Maple Street Loop/Hash

I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 29:55.

I jogged and walked Ron Gimblet's Hash run through Burns this afternoon, mostly with Bob Marston and Basil Julian. I was out for thirty-five minutes. I'd say I went about two and a half miles.

Orange Street Loop

I walked and jogged the Orange Street Loop this morning in 38:24.

If anyone checks the results from churchilldowns.com this evening, and sees that the pick-six numbers are 2/7/3/10/4/12, then they may reach me at Port Palace, my base as I search for appropriate property in and around Monte Carlo.

I picked one winner today, an 11-1 shot in the fourth race, so finished ahead $16.00 for the day, and $9.50 for the event. They sounded disappointed when I cancelled my reservation at Port Palace.

Ghetto Cat Loop

I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 29:30.

On my way back from Nashville this afternoon, I drove by Oaklawn Park to bet all of today's and tomorrow's Breeder's Cup races, then drove on to Levy to watch them on television. I lost a total of $6.50 on today's card. That's fine. I'm pretty confident that I'll be rich by this time tomorrow evening.

38th Street Loop

Today feels like winter. It's 47°F, gray, and windy. I walked the 38th Street Loop in 28:37.

Levy Loop/Humping Hash

I walked the Levy Loop this afternoon in 27:37.

I was out from Reno's in downtown North Little Rock with the Hash for about forty-five minutes tonight. I ran most of the way, so probably covered about four miles. We went across the new bridge to the Clinton Library. This might be hard to imagine, but there now are five pedestrian bridges across the Arkansas River. I like this one most.

Orange Street Loop

I walked the Orange Street Loop this morning in 46:07.

The DFL Green Bay Packers won their fifth consecutive game with a 93.33-64.25 victory over the Cavemen, and, at 5-3, moved into fifth place. The top six teams make the playoffs. The NFL Packers had a bye week, and remain the only undefeated NFL team at 7-0.

I walked the Sweetheart Loop late yesterday afternoon. It took me a little over forty-five minutes.