Well Crap.
Wrote a great post about Green Machines. Somehow wordpress ate it while I was trying to resize the image.
Sorry.
Month: February 2006
Down in Kingstown Town
As promised, pics from today:
View of the station.
Someone was here before me. And they were wearing what I assume are Yaktrax.
And the obligatory sunset. Later and later every day. Does wonders for my soul…
If you’re interested, there’s new pictures of my unusually large orange cat, and my unusually small lazy dog up, too. Just feel free to browse.
Technorati Tags: North Kingston, rail trail, running, snow
Pimpin’ ain’t easy
Sorry. This is a blatant advertisement to get free stuff off of the web. I grabbed some free space at PB Wiki (Tagline “PBwiki makes creating a wiki as easy as making a peanut butter sandwichâ€). Why? Dunno. I haven’t used it for anything, really.
But it don’t cost nothin’. And they offered to double my space if I blogged about it.
Surely I can think up a use for a free Wiki… (think, think)
You could, too.
Technorati Tags: Crass Commercialism
The Blizzard of Aught Six 2.0
Proving yet again that life is out to get me (actually, I’ve got it good. Very good. Better, indeed, than my friend the Giant Head. Who I love like a brother, despite the dark cloud that follows him around. But I digress), I stopped at the Kingstown Rail Trail tonight on my way home. Took some pictures, but haven’t downloaded them or posted to Flickr.
Anyhow, there was a goodly amount of snow still on the rail trail. Enough to let me know that if I’d taken the easy thing yesterday, the sure thing, that I’d have gotten the XC bug out of my system for another winter. But no, I had to go tilting at windmills, and try to get in some hard-core backcountry posing. After a day with a high around 40, there was not, however, enough snow for me to ski tonight. Almost, but right out of the station, there was a stretch of about 300 yards without snow.
between you, me, and the fencepost, I should have skied anyway
So, I stripped down to my skivvies in my car yet again, pulled on much fleece, fired up the iPod to catch the end of the BBC’s “The World” Technology podcast, and headed on down the trail. The run was pretty good. Running on the combination snow, asphalt, and somewhat crusty ice was good for form, overall. If I was striking my heels on the soft snow, I felt like I was going to have my feet slip out from under me and I’d fall on my tuchus. If I was pushing off too hard, my feet were slipping out from under me, much like the Road Runner between the “Beep-Beep” and the “bz-twang”.
But when things were just right, well, they were just right. 4.2 miles total, 37:51 total. Miles were 9:01, 9:26, 9:19, and 9:16.
Technorati Tags: rail trail, North Kingston, XC Ski, running
New Theme
For the time being, I’m using this one. ‘S got the layout I want, and other minor details, like coming up with an image for the header, etc, can come later.
Things I really like?
- It’s clean. Not a whole lot of flash
- Not so many colors for me to worry about clashing
- “Blogroll”/links list shows up much sooner
- The person who wrote it seems to be an all-right person.
Haven’t hacked into it, so I dunno if there’s much I don’t like. Great big Internet thanks to the author, whoever it is over at GFXEDIT.com.
Powerball is $300 million tomorrow night. Must be meant for me, since I didn’t buy a ticket on Saturday.
Cool Bike Link
The “Blizzard” of Aught Six
First, a bit of cross-promotion – I’m trying to collect jokes about the Veep shooting the lawyer over here. For the record, I wouldn’t be collecting funnies if it were a larger load than quail shot, or if the other guy had been critically hurt.
Second, The Boy (as opposed to The Baby, who isn’t long for being a baby) and I have been digging on the Olympics. Skiing seems to be his favorite – we may be dragging out Massachusetts or Vermont way weekend after next to get him a half day lesson, and see if I can’t break a bone or two.
Friday – well, I didn’t run. Or swim. Or bike. I thought about it, but didn’t want to press things. Glad I didn’t. Part of this fitness thing is knowing when to say “eh”, and get on with life.
Saturday – worked most of the day to get the house ready to have some friends over. About an hour before they were supposed to be here, we wrapped stuff up, and I said “Hey, I’m going out for a run.” Mostly as a trial balloon – there was probably not enough time. But the wife said “Go ahead.” Not waiting for her to think about it, I was gone. Through the woods, past the closed school, over the hill, past the burnt out house. Down to River Road, back through Old Mystic, up the hill, and home. 5.5 miles, 50 minutes or so. Yippie.
Sunday – the blizzard wasn’t by the time it got to us. Bleh. Maybe 7″ of snow. Pilates that night.
Today, I dragged the skis to work and checked Arcadia on the way home, but they didn’t get much more than we did.
More things to make me happy
So, I know that a lot of you RBF types have been having a great chance to revel in the white stuff.
Us, down here by the coast, haven’t. It’s been long, not-so-cold, and absent any chance to go sliding around. I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see this:
Call me crazy. I’m waxing the skis (well, not waxing them per-say, they’re nowax, but conditioning the base…)
UPDATE
Going 3 instead of 5 last night was a good idea. I woke up feeling not sore but tight. Did some stretches, and everything is loosey goosey right now. My fear is that I’ll get the PF (the ailment of the lower leg ligaments who cannot be named) again. So, we’ll keep running as it makes me happy and see where that gets us.
UPDATE #2
Revised the image code to resize. After Deene’s comment, I checked it out both on IE and Firefox for PC, and with Firefox, Opera, and Camino for OS X 10.3.9 without issues.
Like two old shoes…
Yeah, baby, that’s running and me.
Three workouts to record. Yep, that’s right – Billy’s been having a phenomenal week so far.
Newsvine
Got invited to Newsvine’s beta courtesy of the good folks at the Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab.
As a result, I’ve got invites to give. Let me know if you want to try it. I’m still kind of up in the air over its usefulness or lack thereof. Not quite sure if I really “get” it. We’ll see.
As another question, I’m looking to change my layout to a three-column dealie. Anyone got recommendations for wordpress templates, as I’m running way behind in learning HTML, CSS, etc…