I offer today less in the way of prose and reflection, and more in the way of data.
Since the beginning of November, I have mapped and saved my longer runs:
November 2nd – 9 miles in 1:07:22
November 5th – 6.35 miles in 48:00
November 10th – 12 miles in 1:34:23
November 16th – 13.5 miles in 1:42:14
I have [...]
I asked—rhetorically perhaps?—in my previous post what it is that makes me happy. I asked this question at least somewhat because I have not been particularly happy of late. I attribute these low spirits (this wreath of miasma?) to a confluence of circumstances, circumstances I will not discuss herein.
I don't have any "solution" to [...]
Sometimes, on a Sunday afternoon, you just have to say yes to a box of tomatoes, however imprudent 25 pounds of red and green and striated heirlooms may be. Don't listen to the voices in your head, the doubts—listen to Sarah, who firmly believes we can cook and stew and sauce all of these tomatoes. [...]
I jerked awake this morning at quarter to five with my face shoved down in my pillow and had a moment of lucidity. "Alarm's not set," I realized. "And you're dehydrated."
I stumbled down the hall to the bathroom for a pee and several long gulps of water from the faucet---am I the only person who [...]
I am officially finished with Fantastico as a website auto-installer. I wished to update WordPress and Gallery2 for my blog and that of Claire and Whit. Did my Bluehost Fantastico have WordPress 2.3 available? No.
Did attempting to run the Fantastico Gallery2 updater overload my CPU quota and break my Gallery2 installation? Yes. Yikes:
500 Server Error
A [...]
Only 12 notes a man can play!
I have been practicing for a month and a half now with Shadrach, a mixed club team out of Seattle, and I could not be happier. Our team has some great talent and athleticism just waiting to coalesce, nearly ready to manifest as massive beatings. And I really enjoy [...]
I promised newly uploaded photographs from Europe by 23:59 PST tonight, which passes in less than twenty minutes. Said photos are still downloading from my (broken-lensed) camera to my (kick-ass) laptop. Go go go!
I ran yesterday evening, a run approximating long distance however inconsequential in comparison to marathon training. I cruised down Stone Way to [...]