5K Day

Today is the Race Around the World in Clarkston, GA.  Duke and I are jogging/walking and Monti and hubby are spectating.  Weather is nice -- it'll be in the 60s for the event.  I'm looking forward to seeing the area on foot.  Fingers crossed Duke behaves.

So something is bothering me.  This blog site shows me how many times a post has been viewed.  I have a microscopic reading number.  I write this as my own personal journal, but somehow a spattering of people found it.  All of a sudden, the numbers have jumped -- by a lot.  It's freaking me out that this is somehow a bot find (is that such a thing?) or something being used for something.  I read other blogs and sometimes they mention photos being taken and used for advertising, etc.

I could decide it's nice that more people are reading, but this seems unlikely.  Frankly, this has to feel boring.  Just me writing about my day with a few other ramblings.  I thought the jump would die down but it hasn't.  

I need to google this and see if bots can find blogs and steal pictures, etc.  Maybe I need to start a new blog or stop posting pictures of people.  Fame is too much hahahaha.

It's distracting me today because I logged in and the numbers were up again.  If it's somehow legit, I'd be happy about it, but I have no way of knowing.  I write a "blog" and I must be one of the few people who don't want reader numbers to climb.  I started using this blog site because it was a nice way to journal.  My handwriting is the pits and handwritten doesn't get pictures.  

Anyway ...  here's the latest library haul.

Started this.  Pro-tip -- library list was
so long, but less for large print edition.

My aunt's bookclub read this
and liked it.

Podcast recommendation.

I got another bowl of greens from the fall garden.  The lettuce is growing especially well.  The sweet potatoes look healthy, but I have no way of knowing until harvest time.  The broccoli is on the struggle bus -- even the one that wasn't eaten.  The leaves look unhealthy and it's not growing much.  Carrot seeds are sprouting, but probably won't be ready before the first frost.  I'll overwinter them and see what happens.

Cold showers are going well.  I feel decently good (or at least less bad) but that might be the week or hormones easing up.  Who knows, but the cold showers aren't bad for me so I'm sticking with it for now.

The new coaching program I started is fantastic.  Her coaching is the best -- she still coaches for SCS sometimes too.  I'd quit SCS, but if I do, I lose my status that gives me 40 minute private coaching and can't rejoin for another year.  And this other coach changes up her offerings a lot.  This is the first time she's offered a program with a monthly charge at a decent price point.  She's apt to change it up again when she gets her "gut feeling."  There are 2 zoom calls each month (at the lower level).  One is teaching with a bit of coaching and the other is 2 hours of coaching.  I can't attend live for a few months, but I really want to be coached by her.

Enough rambles.  Hope you have a great Saturday.  And if you are real people ... hello, nice to have you reading.  Later gators.