A Passion for Running

I didn’t run yesterday and I won’t run again today because this cold has really got me feeling like crap.

On a more positive, non-non-running note, I spent a whack of time this past week cleaning out my hard drive and organizing files and folders and has it ever made a difference. I did a really good job organizing things, and am already seeing an upswing in my productivity. For a while there, it seemed like I was spending more time finding stuff than doing stuff. Now, the pendulum has swung and the best part is as I’m creating new stuff, I’ve got a place to put it. My rockin’ OS X desktop has never been cleaner.

Speaking of OS X, I’ve got myself a copy of the newest release (10.4 “Tiger”) and am looking forward to installing it over my existing edition (10.3 “Panther”). I thought Panther was awesome but the feature set on Tiger is nothing less than astounding. Plus it’s got all these uber-cool widgets. There are thousands of them and they’re all free! I’m really looking forward to the upgrade although, with anything like this you hope all your existing software will still work. I’ve done quit a bit of reading and it looks like all with be a-ok but ya never know. Crossing fingers…

Have you been to the Running Blog Family Directory lately? We added an update page where you can see all the most recent posts of RBF members.

I posted about this a few days ago so this is repeating myself but I’m doing so because I’ve made some changes to make it easier to distinguish between member posts. Check it out and let me know how it’s working.

Oh, and if you want a graphic added to your listing, just send it to me at: mark at completerunning dot com. Need help making a graphic? Let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

This cold sucks and my calves are sore as hell. Undoubtedly due to the fact I had a very hard time holding form during yesterday’s run. Too bad they don’t allow naps at work…wait a minute, I just realized I work for the government!

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I had a rather crappy 45 minute run with Aaron tonight. The company was fine – I just felt like crap the whole way. It seems I’m fighting a cold.

To the title of tonight’s post: I played pull my finger with Christopher tonight. It was the first time we’d done that and I’m kind of surprised I hadn’t thought of it before. I must be slipping. Anyway, Christopher loved it so much I felt a bit inadequate when I could only respond to the finger pulling three times. He giggled and giggled and giggled and damn near pulled my finger off trying to get a fourth response out of daddy. I guess I’ll have to eat some beans or something tomorrow. Still, he went to bed smiling so it wasn’t a total loss.

The wife and daughter were not amused. It’s usually when I post something like this when I check my logs and notice I had a visitor from that Forbes thing. I’m sure those Forbes readers really appreciate coming here to see this kind of thing after reading A Passion for Running was a “best” kind of place to come to. It appears I’ve sunken to a new low on this blog.

That said, it’s GREAT to be a guy!