Archive for September, 2006

Slums within easy walk of downtown Louisville

Wednesday is my middle-distance run. Nowhere near as long as the Sunday run, todays was scheduled at 7 miles.
Now my normal loop from the Humana building to Waterfront Park and down River Road until the sidewalk ends is 5 miles, so I had to find a way to add a couple miles […]

Passed the 150-mile mark!

Hey I finally got around to adding up my current mileage in my marathon training, and I’ve topped 150 miles. So in 8 weeks of training thus far, I’ve run a total of 152 miles. Not bad, given that I wasn’t a regular runner at all when I started this.
I’m now in what […]

Not certain if I’m going to watch the HD version of Trek

I haven’t made up my mind yet if I’m going to watch the new HD-enhanced version of Star Trek when it starts airing this month. For one thing I haven’t seen any ads indicating a local station has picked it up so the point may be moot–it may not be airing in the Louisville […]

Ran out of gas on the 14 miler

I’m not sure that I actually hit the infamous “wall” runners talk about, but I definitely did not have the energy to finish the 14 mile run scheduled for this morning. Started feeling it around mile 10, having to walk and then run for a short distance, then walk again. By mile 12 […]

After just one day, I hate SAS

So our admin guy left the company rather suddenly. I can’t give out details, but I will say it was not an amicable departure. He did not therefore do any transition training.
Now the worse part of this story is that we’ve been told they will not be re-hiring to fill the admin role. […]

Is CNET suffering a full-fledged brain drain?

I was on an email thread last night with a couple friends, one former and one current CNET employee. Seems the company recently decided to emulate something from Google, giving engineers a half-day each week where they get to work on their own pet projects. One the one hand I think it sounds […]

Technology is getting too complicated

Look at all the companies having problems delivering technology on schedule. Sony’s PS3 is going to be delayed in much of the world. And even in those few coutries where it does launch as originally scheduled, the supply will be much tighter than planned due to production delays. And Microsoft is having […]

Legs of lead

Today was my first run since the 12-miler on Sunday. Luckily it’s the shortest run of the week, just 4 miles. And I’ve had two nights to recuperate.
Still the legs felt like they were made of lead. It was a bit of a struggle to finish the run. But on the […]

12 miles is hella far

So even at the nice, slow, energy-conserving pace that I usually jog, it turns out that 12 miles is a really long way to go. It took me over 2 hours, and I consumed a half-gallon of Gatorade doing it. But at least I finished the distance, unlike previous weeks when I tried […]

Migrating back to Quicken 2003

So when I bought my HP laptop a while back, it came with Microsoft Money 2005 pre-installed. I was a long-time Quicken user but frankly the last few upgrades had been underwhelming and buggy. So I didn’t hesitate to migrate up to Money 2005.
I’ve been reasonably happy with Money, it does what I […]