Oops!

I thought the day was going bad yesterday when I found out that two clients were continuing to be late in payment of their invoices.  But things really hit the fan when, as I was editing TIME AWRY, my sequel to THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON, I goofed, big-time! 

I hit a wrong key and over-wrote the entire 75 pages with a blank page!  It would have been simple to retrieve it if I had just deleted it; but no, I had to over-write it!  James Pickering spent about 2 hours this morning trying to recreate it, but no luck.  The only saving grace was that, about 2 months ago, I had emailed  James the 62 pages of what I had completed as of that date.  So the thirteen pages I lost had taken me those 2 months to write. 

I hope that my brain can reconstruct those 12 pages!!  The word file is now entitled TIME AWRY-OOPS!  If you don’t get anything out of this post, but what I’m about to say, then this all might have been worth it (not!)----SAVE, THEN BACK IT UP!!!!!!

Heart & Soul 5K in Carrollton, Texas

Hey, it wasn’t on my bucket list, but I did something Saturday that I had never done before--I ran the Heart & Soul 5K race!  This is a race sponsored by the youth group at my church, and is staged to raise money for the various projects that they do each year.

Although I’ve been working our for the last year, I really had not trained for such a run.  Running on the treadmill at the gym is a lot different than pounding the pavement.  However, I did much better than I had expected, running the course in just under 39 minutes, and placing 38th out of 79 who ran with me. 

Shoot, if I had really trained, I might have finished 37th!

I was the oldest (71) who ran, and I won a third place ribbon in my age group...there were only 5 runners in my age group!  James Pickering has invited me to run in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Brain Tumor 5K this fall, so I’d better keep training!
Ron
Photos from the Heart & Soul 5K