Big weekend plans

1. Take mom to lunch Sunday. Try to keep her from Luby's or Olive Garden. Tell her its okay if she allows me to spend a little more money on her. Tell her I love her. Call my son's mother and thank her for being such a great mom.

2. Run 10 miles Saturday. Was just checking the running log and noticed I've done so much speed work lately that I've not paid attention to long run training. Last run of at least 10 miles was April 12. That's way too long ago.

3. Work Saturday evening. The newspaper I work for will be covering local city and school board elections. It won't be nearly as exciting as Barack vs. Hillary, but we editors are getting free Mexican food for working. So how bad can it be.

4. Get my haircut Saturday afternoon. I blogged a few weeks ago that I finally found a barber for my nappy hair just down the street from where I live. I've gotta train Steve, a 50-something white guy who told me he has only cut the heads of two black people in the last year. But he did such a nice job two weeks ago, that I'm going to try him again.

5. Register for the El Scorcho run. Gandaman has put together a 25k race that will start after midnight on July 21. That's 15.5 miles. In the dead of summer. What am I thinking? But he's already got more than 300 entrants. So I guess we will all drop dead together that night.