Category Archives: Life

Half-marathon training update 01 0

Last night’s run was just four miles. I was looking forward to it after my six mile run Friday which I would actually describe as “enjoyable.” It felt good. I was pumped. I could have run longer. Four miles? Ha! Not a problem. I. Hated. It. Every minute of it was a painful reminder of [...]

Kickin’ it old school 5

Check it. This showed up on our doorstep this morning. My better half attended some kind of savvy shopper/couponing (a verb) thing and now we subscribe to the paper on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Honestly, I’m pretty excited about getting the Sunday comics. On a related note, I firmly believe Cathy should die and whoever [...]

One definition of insanity 11

I did it. This morning I signed up to run a half marathon. In case you aren’t familiar with those, they’re 13.1 miles. Of running. Coo-coo. Coo-coo. “But why?” you may be asking. I’ve been asking myself the same thing. Yeah, I dunno. I want to be in shape? Seems like there are less sadistic [...]

Disturbing statistics 2

Just looked at my online reading habits and did a little data analyzing (because I’m SO into that) and found some interesting statistics: I subscribe to 228 RSS feeds I read 3,449 items from those feeds in the last 30 days That averages out to reading 114 items per day Assuming I get 8 hours [...]

Quick job update 5

Things are looking good on the job front. I got about a month of contract work copywriting and building sports apparel (see above pic). It’s a good place to work and I like the people. The commute is a bit of a killer, but if I got the job I’d probably end up moving so [...]