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Just be one of the first fifteen people to comment on this post and I'll buy one for you in support of efforts by the National Wildlife Federation to assist in cleanup of the environment in the Gulf. You may also want to check into the charity rune casting I'm doing.

Happy Earth Day!!!

EDIT: My v-gift donation event is NOW CLOSED! Thanks for participating! Happy Earth Day!!!
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I will be performing rune casting for charity beginning 12:00 AM (AST) and ending midnight on April 22nd. During that time period, if you purchase a charity v-gift (see the list of available ones below), and reply to this post with a link pointing to the profile for which it was purchased, I will consult the runes with a 3-stone draw to respond to a question you pose. The question can be for you or someone of your choosing. Please specify if you want the response to be delivered privately. I will be popping in and out through the course of the day to cast runes and respond to queries. (As this will be my first time doing this kind of event, I will be limiting my responses to the first 30 queries.)

As a bonus (and 'cause I want to support this particular charity on Earth Day) , for the first fifteen responders (NO DONATION NECESSARY), I will purchase one of the Gulf_Aid_Now v-gifts (with the cute seabird and turtle). (Make sure that your profile will accept v-gifts!) Heck, you don't even have to bring a donation and a question to receive one, just show up and say "Hi."

Rune casting is CLOSED.  HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!  :D

List of charity v-gifts here... )

Retrospect (shortly after): Well, that didn't work out as planned...

Hrrmm... ) 
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I'm such a bad boy! *chuckle*

Today I did the Run for the Cure. I was quite pleased with my time for 5k (3.1 miles), which was 32 minutes 4 seconds. That put me at 10 min 31 secs per mile, a big improvement over the just under 12 minutes per mile I used to be at about this time last year.






The event was well attended. It was certainly a festive atmosphere with many guest speakers, a high energy warm up, and a rock band greeting runners as they finished their run. But beyond all this was the beauty of the path itself. I had been looking forward to this run, in part, because it would be a great opportunity to check out a park I hadn't yet been to. Fall had blessed the scene with a glorious dressing of reds, oranges and yellows. The path itself wound through beautiful woodlands and criss crossed a cheerful creek. The run was an absolute delight! I can't believe I've only just recently discovered this park, let alone explore its beauty!


You'll have to forgive the quality of the pics. Not only was I taking them on the run (literally), but, alas, the camera on my Nokia sucks rather harshly in that it has poor photo quality and it's way too damn easy to get one's finger in the way (hence the cropping).





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I've finally decided that I'm going to do it, I'm going to participate in the Run for the Cure. I've got a lot of female friends and family that I should be looking out for, so it's time to put those legs o' mine to useful labour. It's been a little touch and go in making that decision as, at first, I wasn't sure that my work schedule would allow for it and, more recently, I wasn't even sure I would be able to afford the registeration fee (as well as the $20 or so that it may take me to take a cab to the run site and back), But I've discovered that the run itself will occur early enough in the afternoon for me to complete it, cab home, shower and get ready in time for my evening shift. As for the registeration fee, I'll avoid a potential cash crunch (the account is hitting a serious, if temporary, low this week) by registering on Friday, which happens to be Job Satisfaction Day. That won't leave a lot of time for me to have my donation site up, but I wasn't expecting to raise many funds anyhow (though it did occur to me to offer a pic o' me gorgeous legs to anyone who donated).

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