Well after the 4 months of preparation and having a bunch of relatives involved to come watch the big race it was a big pfffffffttttttttt. They ended up canceling the whole thing a couple hours after we got there on Friday because of a stupid snowstorm that didn’t turn out near as bad as was predicted. During the time the race was going to happen on Saturday morning it was mostly just rain. Pretty disappointing. But like my Uncle Mike said you can control whether you sign up for the race, you can control whether you do the training, you can control whether you show up, but whether they cancel it or not is out of your control. Nothing I could really do. They are rescheduling the half and 5k part of the race for next week but the full is canceled. They are offering to transfer that entry to next years race or possibly to another race in the region which is nice I guess since the official policy was basically “Race canceled? Tough shit no refunds.” I don’t know what I’m going to do yet. They said they are going to mail the finishers t-shirt and medal to me, why I don’t know. It doesn’t mean anything if you didn’t actually finish the race. I’ll take the t-shirt but the medal is pointless, I can’t hang it with the others I have because I didn’t earn it. I was tired and feeling like crap almost the whole trip from trying to switch my sleep schedule and finally felt ok on Sunday morning. Too bad that’s when I had to come back home and go to work at 10pm where I can again go back to feeling tired and shitty for a couple days until I switch back to my original sleep schedule. I swear everyone, I’m not always tired and crabby, I can actually be fun sometimes! Just not when you see me though…

The dog is pretty sick. I have to take him to the vet tomorrow, probably to get expensive xrays and other expensive procedures to remove whatever the dummy ate this time and got lodged in his innards. Usually he can pass it after a day or so either from the front or the back end but he hasn’t been able to and he’s pretty miserable. Why do pets cost so damn much?

Nothing much new with me. I’ve been sick for the last 5 or 6 days but now I’m feeling better. The marathon in Olathe is 4 days away now and it looks like I’m not going to get good weather for it like I had hoped. Looks like a possibility of rain, 20-30 mph winds and a high in the low to mid 40′s and below freezing wind chills at race start. So much for an enjoyable day and a good race time. Looks like all I’ll be shooting for is a finish after expending an inordinate amount of energy running into the wind and not moving all that fast. Crapola.

Other than that I’m not up to much. I hate Statistics. I guess I can see why it is a requirement but it still sucks and so far I’m not a fan of the teaching style of the professor, which seems to be to do no teaching at all and then put questions on the quizzes about topics that haven’t been covered.

I guess I could write more but I’m not feeling all that literary tonight. My next post will most likely be after the marathon so at least I’ll have some photos and something different than the normal wintertime drivel to post.