It’s no secret that I love home improvement. I’m usually pretty handy with it and it’s always enjoyable to do tangible work with my hands where I can see the output of my effort.
It’s also no secret that I hate working on plumbing. Plumbing work is almost always super uninteresting. Unlike working with wood, electricity, or other kinds of tools, plumbing almost always depends on precise measurements (male/female, exact lengths and diameters in metric or standard, right/left-handed threading). And I’m fastidious. Which is why I took no joys in extracting this tapeworm of the plumbing world from the bathroom sink last weekend. A toothpick is overlayed on top for perspective. Excuse me while I go vomit again.
You might home I’m writing about Supernova for a change, but nope, this is running. Again.
Lately I’ve been feeling pretty sluggish and not as fast. I think a couple things might account for it - chiefly the increased amount of time I’m spending with my butt parked in front of a computer now that I have regular work again and in parallel with that, my increased caffeine intake. I’ll try to tweak those variables to see what happens. But last week we ran our 10×800’s with 60 seconds rest workout again and while two weeks earlier I hit a 2:55 average (starting at ~3 and picking the pace up to increase the average), this time I hit a 2:57 average. That was a little disappointing but what was worse was 1) in the last lap, I wanted to let loose a kick on the final 200 but I felt like I had absolutely nothing to give and 2) going into the workout I thought I felt pretty good and was hoping to improve a little over the prior 2:55. The workout was pretty different because none of the people I did the previous set with were there and I only had Robby to do the workout with, and he was supposed to have strides and tempo so he probably shouldn’t have done the 800’s at all. Oh, and I weighed myself yesterday and I’ve put on 5 pounds, which probably hasn’t helped. My times are still as good as they’ve ever been, so once I get back in shape I should be really able to tear it up.
Anyway - I talked with the coach and he recommended some vitamins so I’m going to see how that goes. I’m now taking E, Iron, and some C (to help absorb the iron). I’m hoping this will all go pretty well because it’s really getting to be close to time for me to start training to hit the three big runs I want to do this year - a marathon distance training run in under 3:30 (some time around May), a sub-18 5K over the summer (which should be pretty easy), and qualifying for Boston in the fall (which should also be pretty easy). And I mean “easy” in the sense of “totally doable” - not “easy.” I’ll be sure to keep teh internets posted with my results!
I’ve run a bunch of races with Karl and this morning we did the St. Patrick’s Day Dash through downtown Seattle. The race wraps up near the football stadium and F.X. McRory’s was hosting the post-run beer garden. Getting a drink after the race seemed like the festive thing to do (if not the most appealing - after a run, beer really seems a lot less tempting) but when we got to the entrance where they were checking IDs Karl didn’t have his and they wouldn’t let him in! I’m no lawyer but I’d swear that the legality surrounding such a situation is that the bar can lose their liquor license if they serve to (or maybe allow in) a minor - not for barring entry for a guy who is clearly in his 50’s but who doesn’t have his ID. Maybe I’m wrong, but this seemed like just about the dumbest thing ever.
To be fair, Karl was going around asking all the women if they had “seen me lucky charms” and he probably started drinking well before the race, but still…Instead we walked up the street to Fado where the staff was much more reasonable and had our pints.
(To be more fair - he was in costume and I think he asked all 20,000 race participants if they had seen his lucky charms - not just the women. And of course he hadn’t been drinking before the race. For once.)
One that wont make me sick
One that wont make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick
gnome-terminal sucks. The keybindings are semi-emacs-ish but not quite/frequently get confused/don’t update the display to accurately reflect whatever’s in the buffer. What should I use? xterm doesn’t support emacs keybindings at all so it’s out. Should I just be sticking with eshell (or shell) directly inside emacs?
Here’s what I want:
standard, simple movement commands (^a, ^e, ^f, ^b, up/down arrow)
tab completion (duh…)
standard, simple editing (M-d, ^k)
I think I probably just got my answer and it’s to use M-x eshell or M-x shell, but I don’t always have that available and would really love something I can fallback on. I’m sure somebody must have some advice…
There’s this hole in the wall deli in Seattle - Salumi - that sells various types of salami. A friend refers to these as “man candy” and following an exchange between two coworkers, I realized that there’s an interesting limitation in the English language around noun usage in different contexts.
It sounds kind of funny (”ha-ha”) to say “Hey Kris, do you want to go to Salumi and get some man candy?” It sounds funny (”not ha-ha”) in a context like “Hey, would you like some of my man candy?”
