There are a plethora of cats videos on YouTube and even more on the web, but this is one of the best. It’s kind of long, but our children laughed hard. Hopefully you will, too.

Today begins the next week in my journey to doing 100 push ups at one time, thanks to the fine folks over at hundredpushups.com. It appears that this week follows the same format as Week 1, which means I got 60 seconds of rest between each set. Unfortunately, the number of push ups increases, which stinks. Anyway, my numbers:

12-12-9-7-[25] for a total of 65 push ups.

I was kind of frustrated that my last “push ups into oblivion” set total was lower than last week (by 5) until I realized that I actually did one more total push up than last week. I also gave myself a break since I had just finished my first run of Week 6 in the One Hour Runner program and had my fastest run to date – 3.3 miles in 30 minutes for a 8:59/mile pace. That may have affected my push up totals, but I can live with it. I just broke the 9 minute per mile barrier!

Sometimes I see, hear, or read things and think to myslef, “I wonder what that means.” [sic] is one of those. I see it all the time in quotes and never actually took the time to figure it out until this morning. So, in case anyone else is curious, too, here’s the answer from Ask Yahoo:

Dear Yahoo!:
What does [sic] mean? I see it all the time.
June
Bakersfield, California

Dear June:
Us too. We always wondered why these three little letters appear next to misspellings and other mistakes. As with many grammatical issues, we learned that Latin is to blame.

“Sic” is Latin for “thus.” Yeah, that didn’t clear it up for us either. But apparently, since the 1880s, writers have used [sic] next to quotations that include errors.

This little notation means, “Hey, I know this quote looks wrong, but it was that way when I found it, so don’t blame me.” Maybe the original text used archaic spelling or the original writer just messed up. But the person who’s quoting that text is aware of the earlier mistake and wants you to know it.

[Sic] is shorthand for all that, at least to scholarly types.

So, now you know.