This just made my day. Ed came in tonight and handed me these. AWESOME! I was wondering who stole my ears out of my box.

So I was getting ready to go out and run my long run a little while ago and passed myself in the mirror and wondered why no one doesn’t just kick my ass for looking like such a tool. I just had to take a picture so everyone could see.

What the hell?

Now seriously I swear I do need all this stuff, I mean common, I was on my way out to do 8 miles and that takes me a while because I’m slow as hell. First of all I’ve got the iPod with sports talk podcasts and belt to hold it with around my waist. I tried the armband way of carrying it but I didn’t care for it because it would constantly slide down my emaciated arms. Next I’m shirtless to show off my abs… just kidding, it’s because it’s still a little warm out and I overheat. In reality I don’t appear to have any muscle of any kind. On my arm is the NASA gps watch with corresponding heart rate monitor strap around my “chest” and unseen footpod sensor on my shoe for tracking cadence. Since it is a longer run I have strapped on the camelbak for water purposes. It lets me carry enough to drink without having to carry a bulky water bottle and is incredibly stylish at the same time. Move up to my head and you get the genuine ABA red white and blue basketball afro havin’ headband straight out of the time after the age of Aquarius and before the time of Reganomics. (That means the 70’s). Last but not least is the miners headlamp, updated for the modern miner with battery friendly led technology. Damn I’m a sexy sonofa bitch.

Enough of that. School has pretty much started. I’m glad the majority of classes I need to take to finish my degree are electives so maybe I can find something interesting. I read the first chapter tonight and found myself reading a half page or more without have any recollection of what it said and then forcing myself to go back and read it again but this time paying attention. Mind numbing.

I was thinking of doing something like this with all the daily beard photos. I think it looks pretty cool even though there are only something like 20 frames in it. It would definitely be better over a longer period of time.

(I put it under the read on link to keep the main page from bogging down since it’s a little big in file size. Dial-up beware!)

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Went and saw The Dark Knight this afternoon with Ed. I was surprised he hadn’t seen it already with his wife when it first came out. It was pretty good I suppose. From all the talk I was expecting it to be a lot darker. One thing that kind of ruined the whole movie for me was the fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast as the leading lady. I don’t get it. She is such a fug yet they are all wanting to get on her and calling her beautiful and it just killed the movie for me. She’s like some kind of human-turtle cross breed and isn’t attractive in any way. She should never ever be cast as a leading lady, maybe as an ugly friend or something. Also what’s with Christian Bale’s voice when he’s in the batman suit? I know they are trying to be all dark and stuff but eventually you get to a point where it sounds more stupid than dark and scary. Heath Ledger as the joker however was magnificent. He really pulled off the paranoid schizophrenic role to a tee. If he doesn’t get a posthumous Oscar for best actor it would be a huge mistake. Overall I give the movie 4 stars out of 5.

Other than that I don’t have much. I haven’t been sleeping well lately. I’m all out of sync for some reason and can’t sleep when I need to be sleeping. Classes haven’t started yet but I have had to to the introductory orientation stuff to make sure I am fully capable and understand how to take online classes. Now I remember how mind numbing it is and how much I hate it and I haven’t even started yet. Crapola.

I went and ran the Thunder Run 5k this morning at the airport. I was really trying to break under 9 minutes a mile but I couldn’t quite do it which was really disappointing but not unexpected since I have only been back at it for a couple weeks. I did however run my fastest time ever according to the NASA watch beating a 5k I ran with Joe a couple months ago by a second a mile. Looking at my results compared to others my age sucks though. I must be built for my “good looks” rather than speed because I can’t seem to get much faster. Damn you lanky unathletic body! Anyway here’s the results.

Name: Steve Korgie
Distance: 5K
Time: 28.34
Pace: 9:12
Overall Place: 161 of 271
Place in Gender: 93 of 120
Division M 30-34 Place: 20 of 21

Here is a link to the main results page, and here is a link to all the data that came out of the Forerunner 305.

Here’s the photos from the event. I made one picture, which I have included below.