This past weekend I participated in my 2nd marathon - this time as part of a relay team. We were “Our drinking team has a running problem”!
We showed up at BSC at 6:15 in order to catch a bus down to Pioneer Park. The race stated at 7:30am. I was running the last of 5 legs of the relay - so my run didn’t start until somewhere close to 11am. It was fairly cold out for a September day and the waiting around really sucked.
Our team time was 3:53:27 but they unfortunately didn’t time each individual leg of the relay so I don’t know what my running time was. I ran the last 4.5 miles of the race. I was successful in my goal of not letting anyone pass me!
The relay was fun and we will have to do it again. If my team decides to do a relay in Fargo next year we might have to break up into 2 teams because the Fargo Marathon has 4 person team relay. Assuming everyone from this team wants to have a go in Fargo I may be looking for more runners to make up 2 teams. Keep it in mind….
And just for the hell of here, here is a close up of me coming to the finish line. I look like I was really into it here. This was my last 200 yards sprint for no real reason. I had already passed the only person that was ahead of me. I guess I was intent on getting 10 or 20 seconds cut off our time. Being that it was near 4 hours I don’t know what my rush was….
And from the official photographer: http://dgene.zenfolio.com/p103314301/hb51799b#hb51799b
Holy Crap!!!
As you can see this is looks like it is half way done already. I started deleting file and left my computer for quite a while. This is how I found it when I came back. Have you ever had such a big recycle bin?
I guess it is time to start a weekly purge.
Posted by kidpurple @ September 15, 2008 – 11:06 pm
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You must check out this video. First go to this website and then look at the image below to see which video you should highligh to watch.
http://www.utilikilts.com/?page_id=39
Look for “Round2 Kilt vs Dress” on the right side.
Is this video a direct response to the chicken with the hiccups video I posted a little bit back? I think you may have me beat if it is.
http://oasisjennie.blogspot.com/2008/09/jesus-is-friend-of-mine.html
This is some hard core rock - check this little bit which was my favorite part of the song.
once i tried to run
i tried to run and hide
but jesus came and found me and he touched me down inside
he is like a Mountie
he always gets his man
and he’ll zap you anyway he can
ZAP
Check this out - how many clicks will it take you to get from one random wikipedia article to another random article. My first try took me 9 clicks - see how long it will take you for the same articles I did. I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it at all based on my starting position. You can beat 9 - can’t you?
http://wikifighting.com/fight?from=P%C3%B3%C5%82rzeczki&to=Don_Hood
I’m sitting here watching a little bit of American Football. The New England Patriots are beating the New York Jets. They just said that Brett Farve has played against 4 (maybe 5) quarterbacks playing in the first start of their careers, and Farve has won all of them. Today the Patriots have a QB getting his first start of his career.
Who keeps track of that and who cares? It makes me think of baseball stats. I think they keep track of picther vs pitcher, as if the pitchers every play directly against their counterpart. Quarterback are the same. I would understand if they had quarterback armwrestle instead of going to OT - then that would make sense. I hope they change that rule soon and do go to QB’s arm wrestling instead of playing OT.
I should be playing Guild Wars instead of watching this….
Just in case anyone was wondering how much of a geek I am:
Today was a rough day at the somewhat-daily magic game over 2nd meal at work. I was heads up (can I use poker terms to talk about Magic games?) against a deck supposedly called Veridian. It is an all blue control deck that has done pretty well at our games - it is undefeated.
Well I was i doing pretty good against it, but then one turn for some stupid reason I said I was done without attacking. I left one creature untapped that would have been unblocked. One a few turns later I had my opponent down to 1 life when the game took a turn for the worse. Suddenly he was able to send cards back to my hand and counter just about anything I was going to bring out.
Slowly I made my way from about 15 life down to 0, the whole time he was at 1. If I had not forgotten to attack that one turn I would have won that game.
Songbird is one of my favorite media players that I’ve written about here before. They’ve improved the software quite a bit since I last wrote about it. It is still missing some features that I really like but overall it is a great players.
My biggest complaint about Songbird is the lack of an easy to understand “now playing” queue of songs. The now playing panel is a plugin - which is very confusing to me. Here is a screenshot - can you tell me what song is currently playing?
I’m probably just used to something different and I don’t know how to use this one properly yet. Download Songbird and give it a try. You can install plugins the same way you do for Firefox! You are using Firefox aren’t you?
Let me know what you think of Songbird. It will someday totally replace all other players for me, just not quite yet.
In a single day (today) I almost became the author or two top selling rap songs. The only problem is that I don’t have anyone to write for. Maybe I just don’t believe in myself as much as M.M. did. Of fuck that anyway - I wouldn’t trade 10 juggalos for 100,000 mainstream fans!
Anyway - this is gonna seem kinda weird. This first was just me re-doing the lyrics to a song you already know. My version was called Straight out of Mandan. I came up with most of that one in the shower this morning - weird. But who hasn’t changed that song around about 100 different times.
The next one I’m more proud of. Inspired by the stink in my garage when I got home tonight - My Garage smells like shit. I’m pretty sure if I knew the right person to actually vocalize this I’d have a hit! This one sounds like something for the Original Juggalos.
Now I gotta go to sleep and probably forget everything that was in my head today!
I had the opportunity to write a review of a DVD from A&E about Major League Soccer. I now am able to give away another brand new copy of the DVD. Go to this website
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http://www.mlsfanblog.com/win-a-copy-of-game-breakers/
and leave a comment (with your email address). Not a whole lot of competition so you might be able to win it.
