"Distractions"

I get easily distracted at the best of times, never mind when I don't have a hard workout do do. Today being one of those easy days, my mind was all over the place.  

I was reading a news story about a convicted murderer somewhere in the US, who's execution was delayed  because of a rare illness he has.  Apparently there was some risk that the drugs could cause him to suffocate painfully, instead of dying peacefully.  Oh no!

I don't get it!

Why don't they just chop his head off?

Why don't they just fire a large calibre bullet into his brain.

Or for that matter, why not just put a thick rope around his neck, and drop him about 20 feet?

Any one of these options are relatively pain free because they are instantaneous, and he would be just as dead!!!

Well I'll tell you why we don't do those things.

It's because we're an enlightened race!

We want to pretend that a nice, quiet, bloodless killing is somehow better than the more traditional kind.  The kind that leaves a mess.

What I can't for the life of me understand is why anyone would think that it's a good idea to kill anyone else, for any reason, or by any means?  Especially if you have lots of time to make the decision.  But what totally flabbergasts me, are those who purport to adhere to the ten commandments, and also support capital punishment??  Lord help me!!

Maybe I'm just naive? 

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But enough doom and gloom.

On a much brighter note I found a beautiful cedar door beside the road today with a "free" sign on it.  The cedar was very well hidden under 4 coats of paint, but I was pretty sure it was in there.  I confirmed when I got it home.  I've been looking for that door for a year!!  I'm growing a cedar hedge around our fire pit, and this is gonna be the access door. Gonna be very cool in another 5 years.  Come on by, and bring the hot dogs.  

And I also found a pair of suspenders today, but I had to pay for them.  That's okay though...now I can go to the wedding without losing my pants.  

And cause it's easy day I wore my wetsuit to the pool.  I was out to prove that I can still swim as slowly as last year, but that didn't work out.  I was slower.  Oh well, c'est la vie. (I'm practicing for Quebec).  I did stretch the distance out a bit more, without any difficulty.  

And now to cap off a distracted but otherwise good day, I'm going to get something to eat.  I'm already at my limit for the day but my wife is worried I'm gonna get too skinny, so I better have some cookies and ice cream.

swim 3 kms-1:05:53, weights

"Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction."---Talib Kweli

Love

Peter