Explosions!

Total miles run since entry to NYC marathon/this year: 58.66/377.26
Total miles swam since entry to marathon: 1.38
Total miles biked since entry to marathon: 20.65
Exercise calories burned since entry/this year: 9,253/70,275
Weight: 198
Beers in last 24 hours: 0
Total raised towards goal: $1,048

So much has happened here since the last post. But one thing has not - more running. This weekend proved to be too busy to get any of that done. I can't even remember what I did, or where I had to go. Oh, yeah, now I do, Friday was my friend Jeremy's birthday - so there was a birthday partyish event at the Diamondbacks game. Saturday was Tate's – Eric's and Kelli's son – birthday party, followed by taking Beck to his Grandma's house, followed by 10 hours of nonstop work on the infamous defective shower. The whole redo of the bathroom/bedroom is about 80 percent complete. All that's left is to tile the shower, really. I can't wait for that to be done.

To the right is a scene from Tate's "mad scientist" birthday party. What you see here is what happens when you drop three Mentos into a full 2-liter bottle of soda – EXPLOSIONS!

The first round of auction stuff netted about $200 towards the charity. And this Sunday is the first big charity wine tasting event. Remember, for anybody in PHX, the event is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Tapino, 7000 E. Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale on this coming Sunday – August 13. The $25 admission goes entirely to charity and you get to taste 10 wines and chow on yummy appretizers. It's a good afternoon out (not too expensive) and absolutely every dollar goes to charity. You can't beat that. Bring some friends or something too. Help out the cause. Help kids. C'mon, you know you want to.

Well, they finally caught one of the serial killers in Phoenix. Actually, it was a duo going around shoot people. Damn ... what motivated people to do that? Now, they've got one left to find – the seemingly more dangerous and cunning one, the so-called "Baseline Killer."

I've gotta get back to work. So much stuff coming up ... Talk to tomorrow.