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My goodness.
Have I really not written anything since the beginning of the month? Well, there's a good reason for that. I've been freaky busy, man! I've had weddings, warehouse sales, fantasy football double-headers, the dreaded plague of 1000 illnesses, oh, and of course Thanksgivingness. Rest assured, gentle readers, I am not off-line, merely well driven with many projects off of the old line. I'll be back in the next few days with the month end wrap up and all will become clear. Or at least we'll talk turkey.
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11/25/2006 |
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What time is it? Last weekend of the month time!
Besides all of the insanity surrounding this morning's clocks, this month has run smoothly and very very quickly and next month promises to be even zanier! The big events were the Rat Race & Storytelling Workshop (see below). From these two I've learned that to foster my creativity, there's no better muse than mother nature. I plan on spending more time out doors and far away from New York City in the coming years. In November I will finish the "Why I Left New York" essay at which I've been barely toiling. Heather & I also decided to sing together more often, if only for fun. On the exercise front, I'll still be running exclusively outdoors, but I'll hit the trails more frequently than I had been. This past Friday I popped out of the office wearing my running outfit and, ignoring the rain, hit the Shark River Park for about 4 miles before it became so dark that it was dangerous. Danger running against the elements is invigorating! (See "Ernesto" below) As for the miles, I'm at 315 (and up by 15) right now. I'll set a new high water mark at +17 by the end of the month then begin my taper to 365.25! In other news Heather has had a birthday (31!) and my company was cleaning out old laptops so they bestowed me with one. It's an old PII Celeron, but it works, has a decent battery and will function as the media bridge from the mainline PCs to the entertainment center (The TV) in the living room. w00t! That's all for this month. See you in 5 weeks!
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10/29/2006 |
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September's Month End Update!
The only news from this past news that matters is that Heather & I are officially married & receptioned & happy. This is why I haven't been posting frequently & why I'm not going nuts with typing. Besides THE MARRIAGE I've been continuing to run towards my goal of 365 miles this year. Last month I stated I wanted to be at +15 by the end of this month. I didn't make it! I'm at +14 right now which is just fine with me. I'm in training to run the Rat Race/Hash this year which is a 5 mile trail run followed by a beer bash. I'll skip the bash but enjoy the hash. The other big plan is attending the Creativity Through Writing & Storytelling workshop in a few weeks. Hosted by living legend Jay O'Callahan, the workshop is 4 days in a B&B in a small town in Massachusetts hanging out, swapping stories & sharing meals with other storytellers. I feel like a poseur & I'm starting to get really nervous. I'll post back with how I did when I return. Wish me luck! In other news Football season is in full swing & I'm off to my worst Fantasy Football start since my rookie season. Sad! Right now I'm 12-9 but at least I have a winning record. I'll say no more for fear of jinxing my scores tomorrow. You see I'm playing my Arch-Rival in the Big league & the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Really. I'll close with a short story. After sitting in the inspection line at the DMV for 20 minutes a car in front of me had the misfortune to break down and block the lane bring our crawl to a complete stop. Fortunately, there's a 2nd lane that we could use to go around internal-combustion-challenged-road-block. Unfortunately, it was coned off. Fortunately, the spaces between the cones were big enough to let cards pass through. Unfortunately, this lane is reserved for cars getting re-inspected and for commercial vehicles only. Fortunately we only had to go around the broken vehicle & then get right back into the proper lane. Unfortunately, people being what they are, too many cars would attempt to go around & end up blocking both lanes. A few re-inspection folks actually drove off the road, over the grass and around a stand of trees throwing dirt & ripping up the turf. When it was my turn to go around I chose to sit in my lane & not block both lanes. As you can imagine, this looked to the folks behind me like I was completely insane since I was thinking of the express lane folks instead of concentrating solely on myself like everyone else stuck at the DMV. The result was after exactly 30 seconds the ass clown behind me went OVER a cone to get around me so he could move 12 foot forward & happily block the lane with his monster SUV. Needless to say this pissed me off & since it was a warm day we all had our windows open. He heard a few mouthfuls of honesty & refused to look in his mirror where he'd have to see me. It's all ok when you can see everyone on the road as an obstacle instead of a human being. This trick was easy for Mr. SUV since he has no idea what it means to actually be a human being. Wanna know something great? With him in front of me I had a great view of his break light. The one on the right. Typically only cars with a pair of break lights will pass this inspection. Muahahahahahahaha! Now if the original person in front me had a blown tail-light I would have let them know that they didn't need to waste the hour in line. I did no such favor for the new "person" in front of me! 20 minutes of fuming later our single lane became 6 funnels into the various inspection chutes. I ended up right next to my new friend. He avoided me entirely standing 20 foot away until the inspection workers told him he had to wait in the official waiting area where the rest of us were stuck. Just as he started walking my way my car got finished & I was told to leave. How about that? If I had been one car position further along I would have ended up in the slow line and been delayed further. Mr. SUV actually did me a favor. Know what else? When he's going back through the inspection line after fixing his broken tail-light he'll have to use the Re-Inspection line. I can only hope that he runs into a bunch of people as inconsiderate as himself & enjoys a merrily blocked lane. Happy endings all around! Until next month web folksies!
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09/30/2006 |
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