I just notied that it’s been over a month now since I’ve posted anything new on here. I suppose that sometimes it feels more like a chore to do instead of something fun. I got a plugin for the site that let’s me post from the blackberry so I’m giving that a try to see what it does.

Let’s see, what’s new with me? I guess the biggest thing is that I’m dating someone. I go on dates but I have never really felt the need to tell everyone about them if nothing comes of it. This one is offical though, we’re dating, which is nice because I really haven’t had much that was all that serious in a very long time. Her name is Jessica and she lives about a half hour away in Beatrice. She works for the National Park Service as a park ranger at Homestead National Monument. I’ll leave it at that for now. If you want to know more then… tough shit. That’s plenty for now.

Summer college class has started and I hate it. I am completely unmotivated and just finished up week 2. Not a terribly hard class I guess but I’m wondering if it’s all just a waste of time and money. Time will tell I suppose.

Well I’ve had this site up and running for 5 years now. How lame is that? Sometimes I get tired of updating it and think about just shutting it down but then I get inspired and have a lot to say. Lately it just feels like work though.

Happy fathers day dad, and happy birthday Jessica. I’m going to bed.

Well today this stupid site has been up and running for 5 years. I don’t know whether that is good or bad. Pathetic maybe? It is what it is I guess.

Yesterday after training since early December I finally finished a race that gives a medal, the Papillion Half Marathon. Things didn’t go as I had planned for the others, getting canceled by a snowstorm or not being able to do it because of injury. The race went pretty well considering that I had only run a total of 9 miles in the last 3 weeks. It was an ok course, kind of hilly in places but you have to expect that in the Omaha metro area I guess. I only finished about 6 minutes slower than my first one and a couple minutes of that was waiting for a porta potty to open up. I liked how it finished in the stadium with the guy on the loudspeaker saying your name and lots of people cheering you on as you crossed the finish line. There weren’t all that many people entered in the half, less than 300, so it really made me feel slow finishing in the bottom 20% of that group since people get so spread out that you wonder if you are almost in last place. Well I didn’t finish last in either overall or my division (I came damn close though). Here is a link to the results. I was kind of disappointed that they gave a finishers coin instead of a medal but it’s all good. It was a pretty fun race and was organized pretty well. I think the half is long enough for me since I’m tired of being hurt. I’m going to pull back on the running some. I am starting the P90X program today to see how well that works. I’m even going to take the before and after pictures to see if there’s any difference.

That’s all I’ve got for today, happy 20th birthday to my brother Adam yesterday, my birthday on Wednesday, , short work week for me this week, I’m taking Thursday and Friday off because I’m sick of being at work, 4 day weekend. Going fishing Thursday it looks like. Quite the ordinary life.

Sometimes I think people have too much time on their hands… including myself. Imagine what humanity could do if they didn’t spend all their time making COMPLETELY AWESOME, yet pointless remixes of Sham-Wow and Slap Chop infomercials.

Now you know how I became so AWESOME!

…since I’ve written anything new. Guess I just didn’t have inclination to write because I was kind of stressed out for the last week and a half of that stupid statistics class. 46% of my overall grade was due in the last couple days with a quiz, final exam and final project all due at the same time. I still don’t know what I got for a grade. The professor just sucked and I’m glad it’s over. Now I’ve got a couple weeks before the Summer semester starts.

I had 5k race on the 25th in Nebraska City that I ran with my uncle Joe. I started pretty well but got a bad side cramp and had to slow up and got passed by Joe. I ended up finishing at a slower overall pace than I did at the race the week before and I could hardly walk because my leg hurt so bad. It was hurting before so I rested it for a few days before the 5k but it hurt worse than ever after the race. It was so bad that I had to skip the Lincoln Marathon last week because there was no way I could finish and I didn’t want to be stupid and hurt it worse. Better to let it heal up.

So in the meantime I’ve been back on the bike. I’m signed up for a half marathon in Papillion next week and I’m going to go out tonight to run for the first time in a couple weeks. The leg has stopped hurting and hopefully it’s all healed up. I think I am going to keep it at about that distance instead of trying for the full marathon because the longer I have to go the less fun it is and the more that I hurt.

I bought a Blackberry a couple weeks ago and finally got text messaging and internet on my phone after resisting for years. I have to admit that it is convenient and I like how it makes emails seems like text messages too.

I don’t have anything else right now. I really don’t have much to say tonight and don’t really have any coherent thoughts to write about but I thought I better post something since it’s been a little while. It looks like next week it’ll be 5 years of having this stupid blog AND my birthday to talk about. How excitin…. nah, that’s not all that exciting either I guess.

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!