12:45pm: Setting out. I have the DS, my camera, my cell, and my old Pikachu Pedometer with me, so if anyone decides to mug me, they're in for quite a treat. As you can see from the carnage everywhere, this morning was trash day.

12:50pm: This is officially the ritzier section of the development. This stretch is all sidewalked, so I'm doing a sudoku in Brain Age.

12:57pm: Some kind of graffiti promoting Half-Life 2.

12:58pm: Now we're in the sidewalk-free section, so things get a bit dicey. Deep into that forested section, there's a blind curve coming, so I have to cross to the other side of the road to avoid getting killed there. (I've done this walk before.)

1:04pm: I don't usually like to walk with my back to traffic while playing sudoku, but here's that blind curve I mentioned.

1:13pm: Now we're getting back to civilization. This is also where I dive off into parking lots so as to stay the hell off of the street.

1:18pm: And there's the dealership, just one cut-across away.

1:20pm: The final tally on the pedometer, 3765 steps. Sweet. Who needs Nike + iPod when you have Pikachu! That's 7290 feet in 35 minutes, or 208 feet/minute. I know I've done it faster, but the sudoku was kicking my ass.

Then I went to Toys R Us and impulse-shopped Cooking Mama.