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2019-03-12 08:35 pm

The Walk

Today, Derien travelled 2.7 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Heard a Black Rider, met elves, and continued on with the elves.
Walked through more dense woods.

A total of 42.7 miles along the way.
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2019-03-11 08:33 pm

The Walk

Today, Derien travelled 1.85 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 40 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-03-09 08:28 pm

The Walk

Today, Derien travelled 2.35 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Followed the right branch of the road, which winds through a wood of ancient Oaks. Crept inside a huge tree to eat and rest
Walked on through twilight singing.

A total of 38.15 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-28 05:54 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 2 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 26.75 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/
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2019-02-27 05:52 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 1.5 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 24.75 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool http://eor.rulesthe.net/walk.php inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-26 07:44 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 2 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 23.25 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-25 07:42 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 2 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued along as the road rolled up and down.

A total of 21.25 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-23 07:40 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 1.75 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Camped in a firwood just over the top of the hill. Slept by a large tree.

A total of 19.25 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-21 06:06 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 1.5 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Climbed a steep slope.

A total of 17.5 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-19 06:04 pm

boring retpost about exercise

Today, Derien travelled 1.5 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Walked through a deeply cloven track between tall trees, a fine place for singing.

A total of 16 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-18 06:01 pm

another boring retro post about the eowyn challenge

Today, Derien travelled 2 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Reached Stock Road

A total of 14.5 miles along the way.
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2019-02-16 05:26 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 1.5 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 12.6 miles along the way.

Boring entry, hardly worth it, and as I'm retroposting it's really only to fill in the holes.
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2019-02-14 09:15 pm

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When I got home from getting the oil changed it was pretty late, but when Eor asked if I still wanted to go to the fitness room I said I really needed to work off that high blood pressure from having to listen to Fox News for two hours, so we did.

Today, Derien travelled 2 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Stopped in a birch grove to eat a frugal supper.

A total of 11.1 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-12 09:14 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 1.5 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Lost sight of Hobbiton in the rise and fall of the slopes.

A total of 9.1 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-08 10:18 am

Not bothering to retpost Thursday's treadmill stats

Yesterday, Derien travelled 1.5 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Reached the first slopes of the Green Hill Country and looked back at the lights of Hobbiton.

A total of 7.6 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-02-06 07:20 pm

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Yesterday, Derien travelled 2.2 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Crossed The Great Road from the Brandywine Bridge. Entered Tookland.

A total of 6.1 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2019-01-29 07:18 pm

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Today, Derien travelled 1.8 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Crossed The Water on a plank bridge

A total of 3.9 miles along the way.

(Really, of course, I was walking on a treadmill in a fitness room. There was only one other person there {ETA: Aside from me and Eor, I should have said!}, a tall thin man with a long white beard doing yoga in his jeans and flannel and playing a pretty decent mix of music for us. This actually is real Maine.)
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2019-01-26 03:34 pm

Starting Eowyn's Challenge again

You can feel free to ignore these posts. :) I know that they say you can add onto Eowyn's Challenge at any time, but it's been so long. And it's just something to make exercise postings more fun.

Today, Derien travelled 2.1 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Left Bag End. Went around West end, jumped the hedge.
Went through gate into a lane. Headed west.
Left the lane, following hedgerows south.

A total of 2.1 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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2013-04-22 08:30 pm

mostly all about exercise and health complaints, feel free to skip.

Today, Derien travelled 1.54 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Entered tunnel under Hedge to reach the Old Forest.
Crossed a wide hollow to a faint path on the far side.
Continued on steadily rising ground as the path vanished.

A total of 76.02 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net

ohmygod! I got to the TUNNEL!! :D

I'd have gotten there a lot faster if I'd been walking over the last three weeks. Of course I didn't count the walking I did on the ship, which was a lot, and a lot of it being stairs. I was going to take a pedometer, but forgot, and then we found out that Eor's sisters and niece's pedometers got messed up by the motion of the ship, so I guess it doesn't matter.

So, yeah, I could do better, but I have actually swept the driveway (arm workout with that huge push-broom), lifted weights, and walked briskly on an incline of 8, today. Now I've got to take a quick shower before bed. Have been doing the weights more over the past few days because my shoulder has been getting worse over the winter. This is my left, and it just sort of loses power at a certain point when I'm putting my jacket on or the like, that motion. Hawk tells me if I don't work it, it will calcify and then I'll have real problems.
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2013-03-29 11:27 am

days off, yay. :)

Today, Derien travelled 1.13 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 74.48 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net

So, what shall we use for a grammar and punctuation reference if Strunk and White is now in the doghouse?

(Copy/pasted from the Wiki on "Elements of Style"):

In criticizing The Elements of Style, Geoffrey Pullum, professor of linguistics at Edinburgh University, and co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), said that:


The book's toxic mix of purism, atavism, and personal eccentricity is not underpinned by a proper grounding in English grammar. It is often so misguided that the authors appear not to notice their own egregious flouting of its own rules . . . It's sad. Several generations of college students learned their grammar from the uninformed bossiness of Strunk and White, and the result is a nation of educated people who know they feel vaguely anxious and insecure whenever they write however or than me or was or which, but can't tell you why.[10]


I'd prefer to have something searchable, and online so I can link people to it. Any suggestions?

Now I've really got to go see if the shoe shop has my boots ready - ha, just as I wrote that they called to say they're ready, that's timing for you. :) I also need to dig out my several sets of glasses frames which I have plans for and take them down to the optometrist's. I hope soon to have two sets of driving glasses, one clear and one dark. :) I may have to clean out the stupid, tiny glove box to make room for them.