Summer Aftershock

It was absolutely disgusting outside today. 90 degrees and muggy and buggy. Today and the next two are hot remnants of summer.

Then I head north to New Hampshire for the marathon! Latest weather? 64/44 mostly cloudy - perfect! :) I've been excited for like 4 weeks now. These last two days of work are annoying and in the way!

After recently watching Evita, I took an immediate liking to "High, Flying Adored" and now I can play it on guitar! Woot! Tonight I also learned to play Coldplay's "The Scientist" and sort of learned "Breakeven" by The Script. Hooray for the growing binder of music!

More ESPN

More from ESPN the Magazine...

Their MLB preview for the year had the Red Sox winning it all and Joey Votto having a down year. Haha...

Best NHL franchise as voted by the players? Red Wings. Darn right! Smartest coach? Babcock.

Apparently if you catch a fly ball intentionally with your hat in baseball, the batter is awarded three bases. Weird.

Number of hot dogs sold in a typical MLB season? 21,733,839

Sports Technology

I've spent a little time today going through some magazines I never got around to reading. ESPN the Magazine published (1/25/10 issue) a poll of "which sport has benefited the most from (legal) technological improvements to its gear?"

I was surprised to see Track and Field came in at 5th behind Golf, Motorsports (obvious), Football and Tennis. What, shoes?

America's Got Talent

...and apparently more smarts this year after making Chicken Boy (Kevin Skinner) last year's winner. This year's dude is a good singer (and his name is Michael), and I've never seen a girl Jackie's age that can sing anywhere near that. Fighting Gravity will probably be in Vegas anyway. Hopefully anyway!

In other news, I heard Cake's version of "I Will Survive" on the way home from work today. Yuck. I like me some Cake, but nobody should re-do that song. You just can't. Doesn't work.

Never Forget

Do You Remember?

Happy September everyone!

The parentals are coming to town for the Labor Day weekend. Looking forward to that :) 4-day weekend + family = yay! Definitely ready for the work week to be over. Still a bit slow.

Work has been pretty slow again, but running has been good! A good half and then a good 20-miler last weekend. Yesterday I ran with some really fast people at the track. I averaged 6:13 for 5 1-mile repeats, with only 90 seconds rest. Oof. Sweet. I'm feeling pretty good about NH...3 1/2 weeks...can't wait!!!

One Week

Bad news with my router. It crapped out on the 20th. I had a one-year hardware warranty. I bought it 8/15/09. Go figure. Oh well. Linksys sure got their timing right...

Back to Work

Time to get back to songwriting! I haven't done any in a while! More is better, right? It's like buying lottery tickets, right? The more you write the better chance one is a winner? :)

Long Overdue

Okay, so this is LONG overdue...every birthday I try to compile a list of a few things I've learned, as long as some firsts, over the past year. Hey, I'm only 2 months late...

**Version 25**

Firsts (not many that I can think of)
- PT for a running injury
- Double run (i.e. a two runs in a day)
- Trip to Alaska!

Things I Learned
- Don't buy magazine subscriptions in person
- Cancel your trial subscriptions early if you're done with them!
- How to file a claim with an insurance company
- What plantar fasciitis really is
- What city life is like...sort of...
- More about corrosion and types of corrosion than I thought I ever would
- Mick Jagger sang back-up on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"
- ALT & Enter in Excel creates a new line within a cell
- A lot about crabs and crab meat
- Snoopy was sort of a mascot for NASA
- The most deadly creature is the malarial parasite
- Don't run a marathon in worn out shoes :)
- Flexibility is vital
- How to turn on a furnace for radiated heat
- Jumping isn't good for shin splints or stress fractures
- What exactly a sprain is
- Missing BQ by 4 seconds SUCKS!
- How to make eggs overeasy
- How to drive a jetski
- Totem poles are not completely round
- What Qiviut is (musk ox wool)...and how soft it is!
- My great-great-grandfather Alexander Niebrzydowski landed in America on my birthday in 1906...in Baltimore...

Bored@Work

No I'm not at work right now. But it's been pretty slow at work lately. I need stuff to do! I hate feeling unproductive!