Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 52. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northwest.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a high near 68. Northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

acceptable.

it reminded me of when we first got wifi wavelan, and everyone could use their laptops while watching movies, and i said something to this effect. my friend countered that nobody takes their laptop around everywhere.

well the point is, that is exactly what we used to do.

it makes me miss my lil' vaio.

i think i have a long day of reinstalling windows ahead of me.

2008 marked a record breaking year for vinyl sales with a total of 1.88 million copies sold, a growth of 89% compared to 2007.

i wonder why news sites don't sell ads in their urls, like http://cnn.com/All_New_Ford_F150/2009/TECH/01/01/zune.player.failures/.

to bad i don't recall what the project actually was.

in addition to doing a crappy job painting, the painters have painted my windows shut.

(previously)

(i have been saving that url for weeks)

i finished my 28ish mile run this morning with the most energy of any of my recent long runs; i guess i took it slow enough. it was rainy again for most of the run, but not quite as cold as last week. my lower shins are a bit sore, but i have three easy weeks to recover before the race.

i'm looking forward to increasing amounts of sunlight again!

also, does anyone know how to get my postal worker to stop putting mail addressed to "CALIFORNIA DRIVER" in my mailbox?

1. 3:04
2. 3:05
3. 2:58
4. 3:01
5. 2:54
6. 2:54
7. 2:58
8. 2:58
9. 2:56
10. 2:50 (new PR)
11. 2:54
12. 2:50

not a bad morning at all. this not moving my arms thing may be a winner after all.

well, that and cancer and people dying and all that stuff. but still.

perhaps the most fun thing i did when i was taking guitar lessons in boston was write out the chords to a song by the dears. my teacher didn't find it particularly useful, and wanted me to learn some stupid twelve-bar something or other. but i found it sort of cool to see how the chords moved and where the keychanges sit and stuff.

unfortunately, he only wrote down the chord names, and not the tabs, and by the time my guitar had gotten here in october i couldn't remember how to play it, and didn't have much luck figuring out the chords.

anyway this morning, after my run, i sat down at my keyboard and after a while figured out most of the chords, and can now play the song again:

      |  -  -  -  -  -  - | There is
C     |  -  - 10  9  8  8 | no such
C/B   |  -  -  9  9  8  7 | thing
C7/Bf |  -  -  8  9  8  6 |
Asus4 |  -  -  7  7  8  5 |
A     |  -  -  7  6  8  5 | as

Dm    |  -  - 12 10 10 10 | love.
F/C   |  -  - 10 10 10  8 | And i know it's awfully
Bflat |  -  -  8  7  6  6 | cynical to say
F/A   |  -  -  7  5  6  5 |
Gm    |  -  -  5  3  3  3 | but i need
F     |  -  -  3  2  1  1 | proof that it is

Eflat |  -  - 14 12 11 11 | possible today.
Bf/D  |  -  - 12 10 11 10 |
Cm    |  -  - 10  8  8  8 |
Bflat |  -  -  8  7  6  6 | I'm not easy,
Aflat |  -  -  6  5  4  4 | I'm just easily swayed.
Ef/G  |  -  -  5  3  4  3 | 'Cause I thought life
Fm    |  -  -  3  1  1  1 | was a cabaret,
Ef/g  |  -  -  5  3  4  3 | old chum.

Bf/D  |  -  -  8  7  6  6 | Now I've wanted to turn it
Bfm   |  -  -  8  6  6  6 | off, but my heart is
Fm    |  -  -  3  1  1  1 | just too 
Afm   |  -  -  6  4  4  4 | soft.

Eflat |  -  6  8  8  8  - | There is 
F     |  -  8 10 10 10  - | no such
G     |  - 10 12 12 12  - | thing as love.

and later...

Gm7   |  3  -  3  3  3  3 |
F7+9  |  1  3  1  2  4  1 |
G7+9  |  3  5  3  4  6  3 |

or something like that.

anyway, there is some video from their show last month where the power went out and stuff.

also i think that power outage, or at least it coming back on, took out an airport express and my printer's power supply.

6x1600m:

1. 6:06
2. 6:12
3. 6:01
4. 6:25
5. 6:17
6. 5:53 (new PR)

i am not quite sure what to make of that last one. during the rest between intervals, some guy started talking to me, and suggested i not move my arms quite so much. so was that time due to the extra 80 seconds of recovery, or was it due to not moving my arms? either way, it was pretty awesome coming around the last turn being ten seconds ahead of where i was for my 6:01 mile.

either way, i guess i'll find out tuesday, my last day at the track (until the training cycle).

when i interviewed at vmware, of course i mentioned the smart card stuff i'd done at novell, either on my resume or just in conversation. when i was offered the job, there was no mention of cards of any sort, let alone smart ones.

now that i've been working on smart cards for at least a month, with almost no end in sight, i've realized that my manager was probably plotting to dump this stuff on me the whole time. i'm such a sucker.

10x800m at the track, again. i could really feel the 26 i ran sunday.

1. 2:56
2. 2:57
3. 2:59
4. 3:00
5. 3:00
6. 3:03
7. 3:01
8. 3:03
9. 3:05
10. 2:56

i've been really hungry the past couple of days. weird.

synecdoche

the best philip seymour hoffman/emily watson movie since punch-drunk love, if not of all time. walking home through my childhood neighborhood aftwards was strange.

rachel getting married

"stupid" and "boring" ... "one of those filmes ... i wish i hadn't seen"

i ran the turkey trot, and got eigth in my age group. it was snowing the day i went to the track, so the times are not worth posting here. i skipped the track this week, since i flew back and then went straight to work, but my twenty-six mile run today went pretty well. only one more long run left!

1. ban technology
2. ???
3. irrelevance

or do what i usually do: just zone more dirty industry.

cuttooth, cuttooth, cuttooth.

last week, 5x1600m:

1. 6:08*
2. 6:12
3. 6:10
4. 6:16
5. 6:14

this week, 10x800m:

1. 2:50*
2. 2:56
3. 2:59
4. 3:01
5. 3:00
6. 3:02
7. 3:00
8. 3:02
9. 2:59
10. 2:55

each week i think to myself, "i'm finally starting to get into shape."

* denotes modern-era PR

more tomorrow.

i last saw them in feb. of '07. it seems like so very, very, very long ago.

the show was definitely one for the ages. during the opening band's set, the power went out. it came on, they played another song, then while the dears were setting up it went out again. they finished setting up by flashlight, but power still wasn't back.

so, after a while murray came out with an acoustic guitar, and someone to hold a flashlight on him. he did a brief set, playing there goes my outfit, missiles, and the second part, which he said he hasn't played in three years, and is one of my favourites.

the power came back right at that song's climax, and the rest of the band came on and they did their set, which was mostly new stuff (that '07 show they mostly played stuff from their then-recent album, too). it's a little disappointing, because there are so many of their songs that i love, but i guess they can't do the two hour radiohead sets.

i'm sure the acoustic set'll be on the youtubes soon. now i need to eat some dinners and fill out my ballot! my precinct has fewer than 250 voters, so i have no polling place. since i registered so late, i decided to hand in my mail-in ballot at a voting place tomorrow.

sigh, the post-show blahs are here, and for the first time in... a year? i don't know when the next show i'm going to will be.

this is the first blackout i can remember where i actually had a flashlight with working batteries.

it was an awkward few seconds when a real person picked up, and i had to run somewhere to spit, while reciting my zip code.

it went well, though. 4x1600m:

1. 6:22
2. 6:16
3. 6:12
4. 6:20

i think that 6:12 may be a modern-era PR, but i'm not sure. anyway, last week was 10x800m, and it's still on my other watch:

1. 3:01
2. 3:01
3. 3:07
4. 3:04
5. 3:04
6. 3:00
7. 3:04
8. 3:02
9. 3:05
10. 2:57

it's cold and cloudy today, and my keyboard has a low battery.

A spokesman for Nader says the idea behind the "Massachusetts Marathon" was to raise awareness that Nader is running for president as an independent. Two-thirds of the nation doesn't realize it..

...the other third simple, "doesn't care."

"he's running again? i thought there an amedment or something that says you can only run twice," said one local voter.

"the dark spectre of middle age," was the only thing that came to mind.

roomba sweeps my floors
some hockey on the hi-fi
scrub the toilet clean

water on the boil
just the first pasta dinner
long run tomorrow

neighbor practicing
piano floats in the breeze
saturdays for love