You are a bully, you are boring, and you are the world's biggest hypocrite. Please return to the moose blind from which you came. Sincerely yours, MM

Two days ago I started a “30 miles in 30 days” running challenge. I ran two miles and my legs felt like wet wood.

Today, 1/8, I ran four miles (!) and though it was slow-going due to last night's snowstorm and today's icy asphalt, my legs felt better than they did two days ago.

And hey, I've run six miles in three days!

True this has nothing to do with radio but “bloggio silence” is a stupid headline so we'll start there. It's been a confounding gobsmack of a week; MFM's DBS is holding steady and we're all starting to adjust to that. I hadn't actually let myself believe that all this cutting into her head would end up being worth it (don't tell her I said it) but it has and that's… really something.

[Aside to Katie: from your picture comment, all I can say is I'm indeed the World's Greatest Actress. Nice, huh?]

Anyway, I've been hittin' the HTML hard this week and will have something to share with you soonish and post-holes. Ha ha.

One month ago, I was at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in advance of my mother's Deep Brain Stimulation surgery, and wondering 1) how many trips I would be making to New Hampshire over the next month and 2) whether it would work.

The answer to 1) is five. The answer to 2) is YES. The tremors have stopped. It's a miracle. Thank you DHMC!

Both boys are back to school today. The deafening quiet does not mask the fact that Monstro's chair squeaks like a famished mouse.

Happy 1-1-11 yesterday, people. I had hoped to create something yesterday and ended the evening by writing a bunch of notes for my new business focus; I must have dated eight pages with 1-1-11, which was most satisfying. Now it's time to redesign motormouth.com. I think I'm on v11.0 at this point, which does have a certain… symmetry to it.

If you've never read before or you've read me for nearly 16 years, Happy New Year. May 2011 pose only the most overcomeable challenges to you and yours. (And me and mine, too, Jesus… if You don't mind.)

The minimart near my street is 100 years old; on its Facebook page are a bunch of hunters with kill at the Hunt Check-In Station there.

Today's E! Online “Hottest Clips”, in order of appearance:

Salma Hayek's Sizzling Bikini Bod

Anorexic French Model Dies

Kendra Spills Weight Loss Tips

Please stop featuring the stars of MTV's “Teen Mom” show in the tabloids and on entertainment Web sites. Having a kid as a teen is already challenging enough. Featuring teen mothers on tabloids and making entertainment stars out of them will likely only serve to screw up their lives even more. These girls are not celebrities; stop treating them as such. Thank you. –MM

Caregiving is hard. I find myself escaping to facebook and eOnline way too often. Hoping to remedy that in the New Year by instituting a schedule for the children — Lex in particular could use more structure at home, I feel (and less TV). I'd like to get my mom more involved in the local Senior Center despite the fact that the facility itself is decorated in the style of early Nurse Ratched.

Has anyone out there instituted a schedule in their home? What is it? How's it work?