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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Today's Tweets

06:14 Wt: 167.8, RHR: 49 #

06:58 Listening to The Choir: Chase the Kangaroo #

08:00 Well that sucks, the tweet I sent in the car didn't work. Therefore: I *was* listening to The Choir: Chase the Kangaroo :) #

08:02 Oh wow, my Choir tweet did go through. Heh. #

09:29 On the way into work someone noticed my slight hobble this morning. "Little rough walkin, there, eh?" Yeah, I'm old. #

11:11 So she's rebooting. Reboot fix everything. #

11:13 THE HUMANITY! I left my sweaty tights & socks from yesterday in my training bag. #

11:20 The tights also soaked my workout notes. GRUMBLE! #

11:21 Her name is Angel. #

12:59 At the gym, trying to figure out what a flexion is. #

14:32 AGH! What I thought was tilapia was really chicken. #

14:39 Guy from my church just called me asking for his W2. I guess his old boss's name was Greg, so he searched the phonebook "GR->send" #

14:39 When I answered, "This is Greg" he thought it was his old boss hahaha #

17:06 MapMyFitness.com: Completed Weight Workout. 132 (kcal). 00:30:00 #

21:43 and don't mind Fakecetera anymore hahaha #

21:46 Yeah poor Peter Cetera has a core following but never got as big solo as he did with Chicago #

21:46 They haven't done too badly, but again, core following #

21:46 I've seen Chicago 3 or 4 times live, but it was all post-Cetera #

21:46 the first time I only saw them because of my gf at the time, but the show was really good #

21:48 In the late 90s a lot of the big rock bands wre touring as dual-headliners so I got to see a lot of them, which was cool #

21:48 Now though life's different, and they charge so much for tickets I doubt I'll see one anytime soon, unless Jon Anderson gets better #

21:51 I think with Christian music at first I listened to soundalikes but in the end listened to unique bands #

21:52 So my favorites gravitated towards the alternative bent, 77's, The Choir, Adam Again, DA, etc #

21:52 One cool thing about going to see and listen to relative unknowns was you could always meet them and have conversations #

21:53 I saw The Choir once where the promoter screwed up, there were like 30 people there. I loved it. #

21:54 The same happened with Mike Roe, I got an email on the 77s mailing list that he'd be playing at suchandsuch address in Sacramento #

21:54 When I got there he was just helping a friend at a gig... in the parking lot of a pawn shop #

22:18 I just found myself snacking, before I realized it I'd eaten a bunch of crackers. Whole grain, but still, it's after 10! #

22:18 I'll work 'em off in the morning. #

22:18 I sure hope tomorrow's run goes well, I haven't had a good workout in well over a week. It's getting annoying. #

22:20 I need to go dig those books up, they're in a box somewhere unless I threw them away. Probably did 10 years ago. #

22:21 If for no other reason, What About Rock and What About Christian Rock are good historical records of the rock hysteria of the 80s #

22:22 You can plop Bob Larson right into that group. #

22:23 TO THIS DAY I can't hear the satanic messages in Stairway to Heaven #

22:24 "What're you lookin' for the devil for, when you aughtta be lookin' for the Lord!" hehe #

22:28 ...and Christians wonder why people see us as freaks. #

22:32 11 miles in the rain, baby! #

22:33 Nite all. #

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Today's Tweets

05:42 Wt: 168.4, RHR: 52 #

06:37 Voices carry? Rain 'til Tuesday. #

07:54 Finally at work, getting ready to eat breakfast. :) #

08:43 Push the little daisies & make 'em come up. #

09:05 May I just say that Lolo Jones is hot? #

09:07 Wow. I blogged about 24, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost... but not the inauguration. #

09:43 What I wanna know is why users think computers work they way they WANT them to work rather than how they're designed to work. #

09:43 I might want my car to fly, but it ain't gonna. #

09:56 Is there a way on the blackberry to purge all messages in the inbox from the device only? We use IMAP. #

10:11 At least until my Pre arrives. ;) #

10:46 User: "Oh, oh, Spybot's coming up, should I Allow or Deny?" Me: "What is it trying to update?" User: "I don't know!" FLASH PLAYER UPDATE #

10:47 Why can't people learn to read EVERYTHING in a window and not just 1/8 of it? #

10:47 Well that's positively boring: a scrabble meetup that got tagged as "hiking" #

14:06 Well that run sucked. I seem to be having more and more of them. :( #

14:20 I was a tad overdressed today though, I'm sure that had at least a bit to do with it #

14:36 Mapped 01/22/2009 Route (6.22 mi.) #

14:41 Completed Tempo Run. 695 (kcal) Distance 6.22 mi. Duration 01:06:30 #

16:36 Boss calls. "Do you have an IDE drive Tim can play with?" Tim wants to clone a system. I give Tim the drive. "Oh, I thought you would do it" #

18:18 Have any of you had a chance to touch Paul Bellini? #

20:03 Rewatching the Lost season premiere. #

21:03 OK, done rewatching Lost. I'm off to bed. #

21:04 New Flickr upload: 1-22-2009 Splits: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/akquv3 #

21:04 New post on my blog: Tempo Run - 6.2 miles: Today was my tempo run, this would be #4 of the .. tinyurl.com/bx6e8h #

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tempo Run - 6.2 miles

Today was my tempo run, this would be #4 of the FIRST training. Only 14 more to go! Hehe. It was supposed to be 1 mile easy, 4 miles @ tempo pace (8:22 - 8:37), 1 mile easy. Right afterwards I thought I did horribly, but in retrospect other than walking a few times in the middle, it wasn't too bad.



Mile 1: 9:10.23
Mile 2: 8:23.75
Mile 3: 8:48.05
Mile 4: 11:45.96
Mile 5: 9:00.24
Mile 6: 14:50.49

Yes, I more or less walked the last mile.

So I was getting down on myself for not doing well, but I realized that last night I only got 3 hours' sleep. That might have had something to do with it, along with working my legs pretty hard at the gym yesterday. In the end, I think I did pretty well.

Tomorrow I'm back in the gym.

Today's Tweets

05:33 Wt: 168.8, RHR: 48 #

06:32 The international radio reporter's name just now was Aleister Wankin. #

07:30 Radio question: 50M ppl do this ea yr. Caller answer: go to the super bowl. #

09:34 Lost is back tonight, woo! #

12:38 Darn floor, big bite. You are earth, water, and light. #

12:38 Off to the gym. :) #

12:46 Someone at work asked me if I run more than I work now. I guess I'm the "office runner" now. #

14:06 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT! #

14:26 Heh, people complaining that the recalled peanut products have disappeared from the vending machine. Idiots. :) #

14:30 We don't usually feed processed things to the kids, so PB&J is all made by us, and the PB is ground personally by me. #

14:30 I just ground some this morning actually. Best kind on earth. #

16:15 Yet still enjoy Twilight. #

17:02 Off for some Diet Dew. BTW, I have a case of Diet Code Red in my drawer at work. Later. :) #

18:16 License plate seen on the way home: NUDEGUY #

23:09 Anyway I had to abandon twitter for Lost. That's one show that demands full attention. #

23:10 I do love the direction, it's becoming more like Primer now. In a good way. #

23:41 pushup time #

23:49 Oh yeah... 100 Pushups Week 3, Day 2 (repeat): 20, 25, 15, 15, 30 #

23:57 MapMyFitness.com: Completed Weight Workout. 265 (kcal). 00:41:00 #

00:00 MapMyFitness.com: Completed 100 Pushups, Week 3, Day 3 (repeat). 100 (kcal). 00:8:00 #

00:01 ...and with that, I'm off to bed. Nite all. #

00:04 New post on my blog: It's TV Heaven (with a weight workout to boot): For TV, the past few we.. tinyurl.com/crat82 #

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