Learn some German via the Lord's Prayer. Pentacost is coming up.

Or "das Vaterunser" as they call it. [The Father-our; pronounce it doss Fotter-oonzer. Throw those "r"s back into your uvula and try to roll them there. If you can't, don't worry about it, most Germans can't either. I was taught to do it by a Danish girl named Merete.

My pronunciations are based on the simplest, standard (Midwestern-) American English rules.]

Matthäus 6:9-13:
Ma-TAY-oos
Matthew

9. Unser Vater im Himmel!
Oonzer Fotter im Himmel
Our Father in [-the] Heaven

Dein Name werde geheiligt.
dine nomma vair-da ge-HILE-igt
your name be hallowed

10. Dein Reich komme.
dine rysh (long 'i') coma
your kingdom (empire) come

Dein Wille geschehe
dine villa ge-shay-a
your Will happen

wie im Himmel so auf Erden.
vee im himmel zo ouf AIR-den
as in heaven so on earth

11. Unser tägliches Brot gib uns heute.
Oon-zer TAYG-lish-ess brote gip oonce hoy-ta
Our daily bread give us today

12. Und vergib uns unsere Schuld,
Oont fair-Gip oonce oonz-er-a shoolt
and forgive us our debt [yes, just one]

wie auch wir vergeben unsern Schuldigern.
vee oukh veer fair-GAY-ben OONzern SHOOL-dig-ern
as also we forgive our debters

13. Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung,
Oont fyoor-a [merge the 'yuh' and 'oo' sounds completely; actually, "furra" wouldn't be the worst butchering of that word I ever heard] oonce neesht in fair-ZOOKH-oong
and lead us not into temptation

sondern erlöse uns von dem Bösen.
Zone-dern air-LERZ-a [make that "ER" in there sound Valley-Girlish, not Bostonian] oonce fun dame BERZ-en
but redeem us from the evil [or evil one]

Denn Dein ist das Reich und die Kraft
den dine isst doss rysh oont dee kroft
because yours is the kingdom and the power

und die Herrlichkeit in Ewigkeit. Amen
oont dee HAIR-lish-kite in AY-vig-kite. Ah-men.
and the glory in eternity. Amen.

At my church we celebrate Pentacost by reciting The Lord's Prayer in any other language we happen to know, all at once. They print up a sheet with about 20 different ones.

Running stuff

Hey! The City [Duh! But just try to navigate their frickin' website. Here's the Google search I did to find this: "'brooklyn center' walking path map"] has the distances for my run to and around Palmer Lake:

Community Center to Palmer Lake
1.0 mile

Palmer Lake Loop
3.1 miles

So that's 5.1 Miles right there. Now I just have to figure out how far it is from my house to the Commity Center. I figure it's close enough to just call it a mile.

MapMyRun.com says it's 1.1 miles, so I ran a full 10K in an hour.

Now all I have to do is multiply that by 4.

Since this is where I come to express my... Well, my bourgeois philistinism

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Notes on The Revolution and other events in American History worth celebrating.

Thanks for this link Kyle.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.

The Boston Tea Party would be a good one to celebrate. "The incident, which took place on Thursday, December 16, 1773, has been seen as helping to spark the American Revolution."

The Day King James II abdicated in 1688. Wikipedia: "...on the 28th [of December] William accepted the responsibilities of government." "On February 13, 1689, Mary II and William III jointly acceded to the throne of England."

I've mentioned Constitution Day "It took effect on March 4, 1789 and has served as a model for the constitutions of numerous other nations."

Whoops, I need to make a change at the store.

The Bill of Rights should be mentioned. "These amendments came into effect on December 15, 1791, when ratified by three-fourths of the States."

VE Day - May 8.

I don't need to commemorate No Pants Day.

I jogged on Saturday.

15 minutes was what I planned. We had company over for the weekend.

I put my shoes on in front of my father-in-law, answering questions about practical household matters as I did so.

I may not have answered his last question or comment as I headed out the door.

I started my run at 8:32. I reached the Civic Center at 8:41 and the foot of the 694 foot-bridge at 8:42. That was half-way to where I figured to turn around, as I figured it at that point.

"But this is where it just starts to get pretty!" said the devil on my shoulder.

He was right!

When I got to Palmer Lake, I took a right. I knew I was making a commitment to run all that way around it. But I said to myself, "Almost 18 minutes. Halfway there!" I had changed my mind from a 20 minute run [oh, yeah! I originally planned a 15 minute run! What happened to that? ...Um. I don't know.] to a 35 minute run. I read somewhere that 35 minutes is the magic training number.

Well, I tell you something about magic training numbers. Somewhere between 18 and 25 minutes, my breathing and stride fell into a rhythm and the next c. 40 minutes were very easy.

A jogger is never forced to say, "I have to get up this hill fast!" or "I have to be the fastest here!"

Saturday, I learned I have it in me to achieve this goal.

Now, I have to DO it.