Kratzen vom Rathaus

Another Weekend Jaunt

This weekend, I did the See Jane Run 5k with Ceej. It was much, much cooler (thank goodness) and very flat. I shaved a few minutes off my time coming in at 45:50. However, this was a much larger and athletic group, so my overall was 602 of 747 and division I was 116 of 145. I consider this a big win though, because I don't really care how I stand as long as I'm not last- and, more important, the shirt for this event was way cool. It was even a technical shirt. Hey, I have priorities...

Baseline

FTR, time was 49:01, (29th of 73 in age class and 101st of 229 overall) which I think is decent for the amount of walking I did and the fact I had no clue what I was doing. Hopefully over the course of these events I will be able to string together longer periods of running and get that time down. Happily, I seem to have inflicted no personal damage beyond spilling some gatorade on my shirt. That makes me happier still. Maybe there's something to this working out thing.

Warmup at India Literacy Project Run

There are not many events where you can warm up to Bollywood, but I found one. These people are doing the Bhangra, but by this point I realized if I wanted to outlast my SPF, I'd better find some shade until the race started. It was already hot at 8 am.

Another Random Update

Hey there, remember me?? I'm the person who used to post here religiously. But that was before social networking ate up all my online time and I didn't need to post more than a sentence to feel like it was a job well done.
But anyway, here's what's been going on around the Rathaus lately:

• Five weeks until vacation starts. Boy am I excited, although the word Tony prefers to use is obsessed. Anyway, We head for Thailand on the wee hours of the nineteenth- all the way into the late afternoon of the 20th. Joy! It's only like 18 hours of flight (only!) but there's the international dateline to contend with. Coming back should be almost akin to time travel- or perhaps teleportation- but with all the joys of being crammed into a commercial flight.
• Because of vacation, we went to go get vaccines. Because we went to go get vaccines, we both went for physicals where we both discovered that somehow we are not twenty anymore. In response, we joined a gym. Not any gym, but uber-gym. Embarrassingly uber-gym. My brother's family should belong here, not us. Although once you get past the fru-fru it's a really amazingly awesome place. I've been overtraining there- at least that's the not-me consensus- because I've been there just about every day since we signed up. But ya know, it's really a nifty place and there's too many cool exercise options for me to stay away very long.
• We are one day away from finding out if we get to go to BlizzCon this year. As usual, I am on pins and needles waiting anxiously. I hatehatehate not being able to control whether we CAN go or not. This year it will be two weeks before PAX, which will make for a fun filled month of geekiness.
• Holly had her little girl. No word yet on her name since Baby Grow (I can't tell whether that's a proper naming protocol or merely an interogative statement) had no name as of Holly's call. I have a cute little something to send. The kid will probably get it for graduation.

Anyway, that's about it. Things have been pretty quiet except for some tax nuttiness that I could go into but the explanation would take an entire blog post. Suffice to say I've never had quite so much trouble giving money to someone before. Tony is happy and Ridiculous still and I'm just happy. The smaller mammals are all fat and happy. All in all, things are pretty good.