10 miles in the snow BLOWS. I drove 2 hours throw the snow this morning so I could run 10 miles, in the snow...I was contemplating not doing it until I saw everyone else at the race.  I thought the worst part would be running while snowing, but that turned out to be the easy part.  Most of the 10 miles was not ploughed since the last snow storm so i there was a ton of snow to run through.  Anywho, I think the 20 miler is on the same course, and I don't think I'm going to run 20 miles in the snow...we'll see...

Prototype has a new version and a new site to go along with it.  Scriptaculous has a new version as well based on the latest rev of prototype.

I had heard that the Fort Collins Marathon was good but was not sure when it took place. Turns out it's May 7.  I had been planning on running my first marathon in the September/October time frame but now I'm thinkin that this one is doable...I have not had enough Harp lager to push the register button tonight, we'll see...

Last week I hit 10 miles twice.  My plan was 42 miles total from Sunday to Friday but I can't count, so I ended up with 43 total.  I'll take that.  Next week is 45 miles.  Tomorrow is my 10 mile race.  Luckily, they expect snow :( It should be interesting anyway.  Next month is the Snowman Stampede, it's a 20 miler.  That's definitely uncharted territory for me, but I'm dumb enough that I'll probably finish it.

Huge milestone this week; 40 miles! woo hoo! 40 miles over 6 days. It's a record for me. Next weekend is Frosty's Frozen 10 mile race.  I'm not worried about the distance, I'm just worried about the temp.  This weekend we've seen sub zero temps in Fort Collins, and I REALLY home it's above 10 degrees next weekend.  

I'm trying out Darkroom that I found on Hanselman's site.  It's actually kinda fun.  I didn't think much of the concept until I started using.  It's way cool.  You get isolated with your thoughts with no distractions and you just start going, I really like it! Now I just need to integrate it with my blog editor...

Since I don't know anybody who would tag me and nobody probably reads this blog I figured I would join the "5 things" craze by just submitting my 5 things unsolicited...

1. I used to be a shotput thrower, and a good one at that.  In 1988, I placed 5th at the highschool state championships(California), and in 1992 I placed 8th at the NCAA Division II national championships.

2. I spent the first three and a half years of college(ya, I was there for seven years total), as a computer science undergrad.  Since that major hampered my ability to go out partying every single night of the week I bailed and switched to Kinesiology, so I could actually graduate before the year 2000.

3. I used to be competetive powerlifter.  I won the 1996 APF Texas state championships in the novice 220 pound weight class.

4. I still listen to heavy metal and the harder stuff.  Also go to concerts every once in awhile too, albeit I'm usually one of the oldest concert goers :(

5. I'm a diabetic.  I was diagnosed in 2003 right before my 33rd birthday.  I'm considered a type 1 diabetic, I have to do insulin shots with my food intake and check my blood sugar about 10 times per day.

Beer is good, beer is yummy, now pour some more, in my tummy! Yikes, 2007. Time is flying. The list of things to get done seems to be getting longer, not shorter. My plan for the new year is to implement more of Getting Things Done by David Allen.  I also need to review Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, that's got a good motivational theme going.

I have a dedicated Linux box that sits waiting to be used.  It's running Ubuntu which was a snap to install, and the machine it's running on is actually decent enough to work on.  Here's the problem: I'm at the 'now what' stage.  It's ready to go, but I don't have enough time to get started on anything.  I have Ruby installed, used it for a hello world example and that was pretty much it, no time,  no progress.  Rails 1.2 has reached release candidate 2 and I feel like I'm missing the ROR bandwagon.

What's to accomplish in 2007? Geez, where to begin...Well I want to get the code used for this blog updated so that it doesn't suck.  I like posting code snippets and I don't have an easy way of inserting code snippets and relating them to a post.

Can you list all of the US Presidents? I can't.  Not even close.  I think that's pathetic(for an American).  My geography skills blow.  I can hardly find Colorado on a map, much less name all of the states and point out where they are in relation to each other.  So my goal for 2007 is to learn these basic US factoids.

My 2007 goals are to post at least one useful blog entry per week, and one or more screencasts per month.  I like watching screencasts, it's fun to see other people code and/or do "stuff" in front of me; so I want to pump out more screencasts.