Jan 14th, 2006 by bwann
I had a dream last night I could fly. I was doing cartwheels through a pasture.
Why don’t I live in a big house with an expansive shaded back yard with a big gong? and a small creek with a footbridge. and big fucking gold carp swimming in said footbridge. and fire pits!
I’m pissed in a way I haven’t been in a while. I’ve been working nonstop to backend two of our work trips since Wednesday morning, pulled two all nighters, and operating on 5 hours sleep the past 66 hours with little help on my side. The job is just expected to get done. As I get done working with one site, it’s time to work with the other site. When that’s done, it’s time to do the reverse. I’m not even on-call this week. I have been working like mad to get stuff done so I wouldn’t have to work tonight or Saturday. I’ll be damned if I’m stuck at home working all day on a Saturday or miss my morning long run. That’s not happening, because here I am. Maybe I can make it to 70 hours.
I was supposed to have a 14 mile training run at 7 AM, that’s not happening now either. I’ve already missed this week and last week’s Wendesday evening group workouts because of work, along with workouts for the past three days. So help me God, if something comes up that causes me to miss running either of my half-marathon races that I’ve spent nearly every day of the past 6 months training for, I’ll explode.
I was completely confused when a phone call woke me up tonight, I had no idea where I was or even _what_ I was when I tried to answer. For about half an hour I found it amazingly difficult to concentrate. I had no idea even what I was supposed to do, I was so out of it. whee.
My Garmin never arrived today either. Looked up the tracking number, it was delivered to Arizona. What the fuck? eBay sellers are getting on my tits here lately.
Jan 10th, 2006 by bwann
Apple finally came out with Intel-based notebooks. I absolutely hate the name “MacBook Pro.” I’m seriously considering buying one. The price isn’t too bad. So far my G4 Powerbook has survived a full bottle of Pepsi right to the keyboard, the burner doesn’t work, I’m on my 3rd hard drive, my battery won’t hold anywhere near a full charge, and still tethered to my firewire drive. Maybe it’s time to buy another one.
Oh wow, I suck. I placed 275 out of 292 in the overall results. 15th in the male 25-29 age group. Chip time 2:04:47.1, gun time 2:07:01.9. Looking at the leaders in both 10 and 20 milers, these guys were running more than two times as fast as I was.
Jan 8th, 2006 by bwann
Today was the RunTex 10/20 miler, my second running race. I finished the 10 miler in 2:04:28 according to my time, I don’t know what my official chip time is yet. There was a stiff breeze all morning long which made things hard. It was bloody chilly when I got there, I warmed up wearing my fleece jacket and promptly overheated. I ran the course, mad at the wind. I don’t know how many turned out for the race, I was bib number 1680. I was amazed and amused when I could look on the horizon in front of me and see runners strung out miles ahead of me.
The race was a loop 10 miles long starting and ending at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock. 20 milers did the loop two times before finishing. Somewhere after mile 8, I got lapped by Gilbert. I hear he finished first, which doesn’t surprise me; by my estimates he would’ve finished well under two hours. A good string of 20 milers were finishing at the same time I did and kept on coming in when I left around 3:00 race time. There were spectators at every turn, cheering on everyone as they went by.
The most I’ve ran is 12 miles, but after I exited the finished chute and stopped to grab a bottle of water, every muscle in my legs decided to lock up. I visited the on-site chiropractor, who gave my legs and shoulder a workover. My right shoulder popped, and man, it felt wonderful!
I hope Kreutz got some good photos of me, I don’t have any of my running yet. I’m glad I finished. I feel really, really good about it.
Jan 3rd, 2006 by bwann
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I am now 100% committed to going to Seattle.
Jan 2nd, 2006 by bwann
“Who replaced my quads with lead” or “that’s what I get for laying off the bike for a month.” First ride of the year, Mansfield Dam loop, 41 miles. It was a great Texas day, sunny, around 23 C with a light breeze. As I suspected, it feels wonderful doing nothing today.
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Jan 1st, 2006 by bwann
Happy new years, y’all. I guess the world didn’t melt down with computer clocks reaching 23:59:60 after all. However, it does sound like large swatches of Texas and Oklahoma are burning to the ground with rampant grass fires.
I’m not a fan of making resolutions and all that, if I wanted to do something I would’ve already done it. I feel good about what I’ve accomplished in 2005 and the progress toward some long term goals that’ll come to fruit throughout 2006. I really enjoy the work I do inside and outside the office, and I love living in Austin. I surprise myself, in that sometimes I’ll be so impatient as to spend an extra $10 to get something from Amazon overnighted to me, or make a special trip to pick up something that totally could wait, yet I’ve managed to stay focused on things like my half-marathon training that so far has been over a five month daily committment and exercises in self-discipline.
It feels just and wonderful having a day off work tomorrow where I can spend time doing my own thing. Normally on days off it’s usually because I scheduled time off to travel a state or two away which always involves blowing two days for driving. My truck’s odometer reads 86,000+ miles, and its hour meter reads 2005.9 hours, which is over 83 days behind the wheel (I’ve had it for 2.5 years). Having said that, I’m hoping to get some time off in a couple weeks so I can fly up to Seattle to see Alex and Victoria.
I spent the night down in Houston with Brady and his friends. They were all great to hang out with; it was nice meeting new people for a change, even if they’re three hours away. This morning was french toast at House Of Pies. yum!
The weather was amazingly warm for January, Houston felt like the upper 80s today. Last night (or rather early this morning) we were sitting out on the back patio. I fully expected it to be a little cool out and discovered it was still quite warm out when I went to get my jacket.
Today we watched The Ringer. I was anticipating it to be totally low quality and very cheesy, then end in spectacular disaster for the character. I wasn’t sure how they were going to present athletes, even though I knew the Special Olympics had final say on the script. Overall it was a nice movie and everyone preserved their dignity. It had Katherine Heigl as Lynn, one of my favorite hottie actresses du jour. I haven’t seen Johnny Knoxville in a while, he sort of reminded me of a young Larry Hagman.
I spent Christmas in Oklahoma as usual. Went up to Tulsa and visited friends that I haven’t seen but once since I moved. My parents got a spiffy new 16:9 TV and gave me their old one. The old one is in need of maintenance, it’s been around since 1995. It has a serious problem with blowing out cyan and white colors that makes the image look foggy and oversaturated, although red menu dialog boxes are well defined. I’ve tried tinkering with the picture controls, various extreme settings aren’t working; brightness is the only one that seems to do anything. I need to find a promising local repair guy and find out if it’s possible to correct or salvage the unit.
I’m envious of the Garmin StreetPilot we got my parents for Christmas. It would’ve come in handy in Houston, even though we knew where we were going for the most part. I think I’m going to have to break down and buy one now.
I need me some SNES Super Mario Kart action too.
