Well the 5k run went well enough yesterday. I completed the course in 33:22 which is not bad seeing I had only been training for two months. I came in 296 of 350 men running, and I was 51 of 60 of men in my age group 40-49, there was a group for men over 50 too. No idea how it was for them or how many there were.
To be honest I figured I would take 40 to 45 minutes, so I'm pretty happy with 33:22.
Awesome, good job!
Today is the last day of our Sprint, so I need to wrap up a few things and close out my stories. Tomorrow should be the planning for the next sprint. I kind of like this sprint system, it works well for me.
I'm guessing this has nothing to do with running
I should probably look into these because 1, maybe it will help the clusterduck we have going on here and/or 2, when I was looking for a job back in 2009 one of the recruiters was pretty shocked I didn't know "agile development" (or something like that).
Well, while you have been out being healthy, I have been being "unhealthy"
Thursday before last I had a show to go to (when I added it to my calendar I didn't realize that the following day was a holiday). It was at this little dive bar that is cash only (I hate using cash, prefer running a tab on a card). I noticed they had these "jugs" of beer where you pay $10 for the first round and $8 to refill it. Sounds like a good idea but who knows what kind of garbage beer was in there... After three (2.5, I gave a way half of the last jug) of these I had to leave...
http://imgur.com/a/Eur07 I think I caught two of the touring band's songs but I couldn't tell you anything about them
Made it home before I got sick at least...
Well the next morning, I didn't have anything planned but was "excited" for a day off thinking I would be productive (freelance, clean apartment, etc)... Nope... I think I rolled out of bed around 10 am, showered, had breakfast, then laid on the couch and slept till 6 pm
Had a show to see that night, last ever performance by one of my friend's bands so I "couldn't" miss it. I made it there but it was lackluster
Being that Sunday was Easter and I was planning to be up early to hang out with family I kept things low key that Saturday (went out to see one band, was home "early"). (I did get a lot of freelance, as well as my defensive driving (took an online course) done.) So overall my "holiday weekend" sucked and I attribute it all to those damn jugs of beer (which is totally my fault).
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Last Wednesday, even though I made it a point to stop consuming caffeine at a decent hour, I had a pretty bad case of insomnia... Finally fell asleep around 3 am (to make things worse, there was a show I passed on since it was a work night... totally should have gone...) and around 4:30 Fido woke me up... I think what I hate about insomnia the most is that the time is totally wasted (like, I could have gone to a show, I could have been productive, but I was totally tired/groggy, just could not fall asleep) and not only the time that I should have been sleeping, but the next day too...
I managed to make it through work and at lunch I found out about a show that I figured I would have a handful of friends in attendance (even though it was a work night, was ending "early" (midnight)) so I decided to go. I attempted to take a nap, and might have gotten 15 mins, but was super tired (to the point of feeling weird) at the show. There was hardly anyone there, and the only people I knew were in the bands, so I just hung out in the back trying to stay conscious
Friday, during the workday, was pretty rough as a result of not sleeping much the previous 48 hours
but I made it. Being that it was my mom's 81st birthday I took off a little early and headed down that way. On the way to pick her up I dropped off the paperwork to take care of my speeding ticket (I'm surprised at myself for waiting till the last possible minute... wanted to hand it in personally rather than mail due to that). That night was a show I've been looking forward to for a while (Black Pussy, the "70s rock" band I've posted in this thread (or the previous iteration of it rather) before). I thought I would see a lot of people I knew there but it turned out to be only two and I didn't even talk to them much, I was there to see the band anyway (the openers weren't that great though). Last time I saw them (at the same venue) it was pretty crowded (and my memory tells me it was a week night) but it was fairly empty that night...
Saturday was pretty eventful. In the morning I picked up a piece of furniture destined for the deli and headed down to Texas City to see the car show that my friends & ex-bandmates put on each year. Hung out with quite a few friends down there for a few hours then proceeded on to Galveston to drop off that piece of furniture and hung out there for a bit as well. Stopped of dinner with chick on the way back up, dropped my Jeep off at my apartment and Ubered to that nights show. Houston audiences (for lack of a better term) are so weird... I don't know that anything else was going on, and this show was just three pretty unknown bands from surrounding areas, but it was literally the bands, their girlfriends, me, & two other people... One of the bands is an old friend of mine from wayway back and I had never heard of the other two, they were all great though.
I didn't do much Sunday, was extremely groggy (understandably as I had been running a serious sleep deficiency since Wednesday) but I managed to stay awake all day (was worried I wouldn't sleep last night if I napped, but was also worried I wouldn't sleep regardless and therefore should nap
). I wasn't as productive as I would have liked as a result, but did get quite a bit done. Was in bed at a decent hour and slept soundly all night
