Rec of the day

Watching the Little Birds Fly Kamikaze Missions into the Walls by zvi (Leverage)
gen; Sophie & Parker; 609 words
Summary: It's like breaking into the Met to steal something and realizing that they're displaying a forgery. Set after 2x15 Maltese Falcon Job; Sophie's back and finds things not as she left them.

Short but wow. I want to quote my favorite part but best read yourself.

I got new shoes!

Yesterday I went on a shopping spree. (Haha, I found a great way to freak people out: I just had to say "I'm meeting a friend to go shoe shopping" and everyone would stare at me like they suspected I'm a pod person.) But it's true, I went shopping for shoes and got ( these. )

My new Five Fingers shoes - where every toe gets its own place. I can't wait to take them for a spin. I've already walked around in them for a while and they feel very nice indeed; as close as you get to walking barefoot (sweatier, though, alas). Tomorrow, weather permitting, I'm gonna take them for a run and see how that works. I've always done a lot of walking around barefoot which is handy; you gotta roll your feet differently than when wearing regular running shoes, otherwise they can be counterproductive. But when done right, lots of runners swear by running barefoot. I read about it a while back and had been meaning to try it ever since. Actually have been walking barefoot a lot in order to prepare my feet for it; I hadn't even heard of these shoes until naye posted about them the other day.

And while on the topic of shopping, I ordered me a shiny bouldering mat because I've been more and more tempted to climb places I shouldn't climb without extra protection. Seems like a wise investment.

Fun youtube vid: Freerun Hamburg - Running and jumping through Hamburg City

one more rec for the road...

Ah, what the hell, here's another rec. Too late to get any work done anyway...
Road Trip! by telaryn (Leverage)
gen; PG; Characters: Nate, Parker, Eliot (by phone); 1833 words
Summary: After a job goes horribly wrong, Nate and Parker end up trapped in a car together, trying to stay off the Italian's radar.
Hilarity ensues.

A really enjoyable fic: Nate and Parker get to bond on an involuntary road trip.