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I’m living the single life again! No, Jessica didn’t leave me, she just went out to the boonies to visit her family for a few days since she had a little bit of an extended period with no work to go to. She will be back sometime on Sunday. I’m sleeping way too much lately. This cold weather is really knocking me on my ass. Can’t get much done because I’m just so freakin’ tired sometimes, and with the schedule that I work there isn’t all that many consequences for oversleeping way too much. It looks like next week there will be a semi extended stretch where the temp will actually get above freezing so I am going to drag my ass out of bed and get outside to train. Hopefully that will help improve how I’m feeling and get me going. We have a 10k race in a couple weeks and it is going to be brutal because both Jessica and I haven’t been all that great on all of our training because we both have a little bit of the blahs. I’m hitting it hard now. Nothing else to report for today…

I’ve had this thought during serious conversations with important people. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Had a pretty good time last night, Jessica and I went to Shoguns for dinner because she has been trying to get me to eat sushi for a long time now. Well I gave it my best shot and… I don’t have to eat sushi ever again. A lot of people love the stuff but I pretty much hated it. It just didn’t go down very well at all and I had some trouble even holding it down. The next thing that I have to try is Thai… only this time I’m not allowed to complain about it if I don’t like it. Will do!

Afterward we went to Duggan’s Pub to go see a couple of people that I work with play a show. Dave plays in a South American flute band called Kusi Taki and Lloyd plays country, I don’t know that he really had a band name this time, it was just billed as Legendary Lloyd McCarter. Diverse audience for both of those kinds of music but it was pretty fun. There was a lot of people there that I knew, a whole lot of people who I didn’t know but also work at Duncan were there as well. A pretty good crowd overall. We had to cut the night short since Jessica had to work in the morning but it was a good time. Here’s a couple short clips just to get an idea of what they were like.

Here’s a few photos that I blatantly stole from Brenda. I need to make Jessica stop making that weird sideways face every time someone takes a picture because she does it in almost every single photo that ever gets taken.

I’ve been sick pretty much all week, even took Wednesday night off. I could have gone in to work, I wasn’t on my deathbed or anything. I think it was more just not wanting to go in. That’s the nice thing about my work, there is no sick days, you just get a big lump of days off that you can use for being sick, vacation, personal reasons, or whatever. I wish everyplace would go that route. People who have sick days almost never use them when they are sick, it’s almost always a lie to get the day off. I know this because no one where I work calls in sick at the last minute and leaves everyone else hanging unless they are really sick. It’s a dramatic difference in absenteeism. Anyway, Ed said he would work for me because he wanted the overtime so I let him have it.

We signed up for the Leprechaun Chase 10K on the 13th of next month as the first race of the year. The women get a 5 and a half minute head start and then the men try to catch them. If a woman wins the race all the women who entered get a free drink and if a man wins the race then all the men do. Sounds like fun, hope the weather warms up a little.

Speaking of the weather, I am so damn sick of this stupid winter weather. I went to Wal-Mart at about 3 in the morning because… well I get bored when I’m off work and there’s no one else awake. Anyway, I was turning the corner and I there was no tire adhesion and I slid and slammed the tire into the curb and screwed up my rim. DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! Stupid ass expensive new car! I miss my crap truck where I could drive it through a wall and not care. Everything for that stupid car is an expensive pain in the ass. I tried to get some brighter headlights for it but when I went to install them I learned that you have to take the tires off and pull the wheel wells to change the damn headlights! WTF. Since I have no garage and it never stops snowing that will have to wait. I’ll take the rim in and have it repaired sometime I guess, a new one would cost a fortune, that and it would cost extra to swap out the stupid pressure sensor in the rim. Hopefully the tire isn’t cut or gouged, I didn’t see anything but it’s hard to tell when everything is covered with winter slop.

Calmness… positive thoughts… negativity breeds negative things… positivity breeds positive things… Good words of wisdom. I overheard Lloyd say that before his show. He’s right.

Ahh, so that’s what the problem is. I think I’m going to go get a tattoo like that.