No knee pain, a beetle, and a whinge about my old digital camera

I had a shorter than normal run yesterday morning. About 8 km. My nice longish upper aerobic run on Tuesdays is on hold for a little while until I feel more confident about the leg(s). But the good news was I had no trouble with the knee. My upper rear thigh still niggles and I plan to keep working at it with massage and stretching. I can't get back up into serious marathon training mileage if that is going to hang around. I took the opportunity of the shortened run (didn't even start my stopwatch) to so some core exercises.

When I got home I found a rhinocerous beetle, or kabutomushi, in our driveway. He was a beauty. Lovely big horn (no snickering). These things are very popular as pets among Japanese kids at this time of year, but this was a wild one. My boys seem to have outgrown them. One said he didn't really want to have it, the other said it would be OK to keep it as long as he didn't have to look after it (at least he was honest). My older son was staying at a friend's place. Worried about him being picked off by crows if I let him go, I took the shiny black-horned wonder to work and was going to let him go last night. But sadly, during the afternoon he curled up his toes and went to the great beetle cage in the sky. I feel a bit guilty now....

My PMP (MP3 player) has a USB connector so you don't need to frig about with a cable to upload and download files. We have misplaced the cable for our digital camera, and now have to get the memory card out, put it in a card reader, connect up the card reader, blah, blah, blah. Pain in the butt. Plus, I normally post to my blog from my work computer meaning the camera isn't with me. As a result, I keep missing out on the opportunity to post photos that are just sitting there on the camera...in this case the kabutomushi. My next digital camera is going to be small and light, be equipped with a USB direct connect, and go everywhere with me. I'll try to get a photo up in Mr Beetle's memory as soon as possible.