Although I originally wasn’t feeling it, once I got out there, another late night/early morning long walk was exactly what I needed. The usual suspects were there to greet me: drunk drivers, cats skulking, possums and skunks skittering, and random dogs barking at my audacity to walk by. I probably should apologize to one group of houses because I couldn’t resist barking back so that the dog objected even louder against my presence. When I made the long loop around and back across the interstate, one dog wagged its tail in the dark and let me pet it as it sat patiently under the beautiful modern street lights along Deane.

A man sitting perfectly still next to his house on Sang Avenue made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. The house had only a few feet between it and a chain link fence bordering the sidewalk. I assume he belonged there rather than being someone who didn’t because he was sitting on something and mostly hidden by the bushes.

Totally unrelated: did you know that the circumference of your calf muscles bears a strong correlation to how long you are likely to live? It sounds like a scam but the science is there to back it up.

Did you know that the world record for a person holding their breath underwater is 24 minutes and 37 seconds? Tell me again that human beings aren’t fascinating.

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