A Passion for Running

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passion for running category: running on Monday, April 25 2005

Did a 1000 meter swim followed by a 20km ride on the bike on Saturday. That was a wake up call. Hello Mark, you have a TRIATHLON to to in almost exactly one month!

If it was two events, I’d have it licked. I mean, I sure wouldn’t be any kind of speed-monster but I’d get the job done. However, you add that run on at the END, and you have yourself some kind of challenge – especially since I’d like to run that while maintaining POSE form.

One month to get things right. ’nuff said.

Took the kids to the park twice on Saturday and then Sunday was all about relaxing on the deck with the BBQ, some beers and a good friend. It’s all good.

And then today all hell broke loose. Long story short is that www.dayhome.ca (wifey’s site) security was SEVERELY compromised. Some SOB managed to hack the site and use it to put a spoof of a major Canadian bank ‘s website on there. Then they sent hundreds (thousands?) of emails out to people with a link to MY site where they were to verify their banking information. The spoof site was harvesting the information and sending it to the scammer where he will do god-knows-what with it. I spent MOST of the day on the phone with bank security experts and with my domain host. I THINK we have things nailed down now but I’m afraid to be confident for fear of jinxing things. It was an awful experience and I feel awful thinking that some people may suffer financially because of something I look after.

Because of all that crap and to top things off, I missed my run with Aaron (insert twelve choice swear words here).

Ugh…I could use a hug. And “yeah” I’ll even take ‘em from you fellas.




13 Comments

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Comment by BD

Monday April 25, 2005 @

*hug*

I’m impressed that you can swim 100,000 centimeters, much less follow that with a 2,000,000 centimeter bike ride.

Sorry to hear that things were so rough today and that you missed your run. I’m sure you’ll get your runs in soon enough!

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Comment by susan

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

Biiiiig Hug coming your way. Oh my gosh, Mark. What a disaster you had to handle. I’m so sorry. I hope you can get in a good stress-reducing, ‘posed’ run soon. I’m thinking about you…

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Comment by Jon in Michigan

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

OK first, Pam will be my stand-in for the hug. :D

Second, I will be happy to help you take a baseball bat and beat to death the rotten pieces of dog meat that hacked the site. SCUM! I like to think there’s a special place in Hell for people like that, right next to the telemarketers and spammers.

Sorry you were a victim of this crap, Mark.

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Comment by air-run

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

The bad days sure help us appreciate the good days, that is for sure. Today will be a great day. Bike to work and get in a good run at noon and you will feel like you can take on the world after that. Don’t give those hackers the satisfaction or your frustration!!! They don’t deserve any of your time, they don’t deserve anything but a swift kick in the butt. They are just despicable little weesels with low self-esteem and absolutley no integrity – I would rather be the guy getting hacked than the guy doing it because today you get to go on as good old Mark they will be the same %$$#@$%s they were yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment by Pamalamadingdong

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

oh sure I’m the stand in! ALright fine. I’m not very touchy feely…(unless there’s liquor) so you’ll be getting a nuggey too!
Also..are you sensing some hostility from Jon? Geesh.
Hackers suck…I can’t believe that happened!

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Comment by Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

*hugs* *hugs* *hugs* Ya know canned SPAM was orignally best when fried….and this spammer should be!

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Comment by Dianna

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

I hope this didn’t cost you any money, because it would seem that some RBFer’s are expecting you to cover some travel costs for a RBF-regional race that I’ll be posting about today…just a rumor though.

And you can always count on a hug from me…I’m one of those ‘full-body-hug’ kind of people; not the ‘bend at the waist and hug with my collar bone’ type.

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Comment by Deene

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

aww pobrecito.. I’d give you a tight squishy hug but I don’t really want to wrinkle my freshly pressed shirt just yet. :)

Damn hackers and spammers! if it makes you feel better, you could make an audio of the 12 choice words.

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Comment by jeff

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

woah…that blows. glad you were able to hop on it quick though.

and i’ll hug. i won’t even ‘man pat’.

and bd? he rocks. it’s fun to say, “i ran a 1,000,000 centimeter race today”.

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Comment by Nancy Toby

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

Holy crap! Consider yourself hugged – that must have been a huge shock to find out about!!

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Comment by Lara

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

Mark I’m late coming into this but I am sooooooo sorry for the crappy website headaches you have been having – first with spam and now this!!

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Comment by beverly

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

Yikes! I’m late here too, but just wanted to say sorry you had such a rotten experience … I’m always in awe of the creeps that have time to do this stuff!??!

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Comment by Reba

Tuesday April 26, 2005 @

I’m late as well but I’ll hug you anyway…cause you are so darn huggable ;) and THAT was just a really, utterly horrible thing to have happen to such an incredibly decent man like you. I’ll drive over them with a tank for you if you like.

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