Thought Sausage

Since the first Triathlon of the season is only a month away, I've been ramping up my running. And boy oh boy do I suck balls. Did an 8 miler and for some reason I couldn't get the mojo working. I think I might need to get insoles. In short, I walked a lot. Not good.

List of projects I've threatened to start but haven't started:
-Make my own brand of wine (I have no answer other than it got nice enough to keep me outside)

-Mountain bike (seems like Spokeeasy has been taking to the road...I aim to rectify this this weekend...more on that later). My bike is in solid working order. Although it needs a computer, clips and a back fender (maybe).

-Make music -I go in phases. The riffs are there, but as alluded to in the previous post, the implements aren't yet. But I have a feeling this will happen by summer's end

-Tunes on Bertha...The Ipod thing proved to be woefully expensive. I may go Megan's route with the 30 dollar thing.

Why do all my projects require spending money?

Well I guess one is free, I just need a free weekend to do it. And that's spending more time on the beach. I'm pretty sure the weekend after this could be the magic week.

I'll actually be in Cedar Falls this weekend! Unfortunately my time is going to be pretty much sucked up by a wedding so teh odds of me getting over to Main street to the Reverb or any old haunts is fairly remote. Since moving to Chicago I have this intense fear of driving if it involves drinking in any way. Especially since almost everybody I know back in the old town has since gotten a DUI or been threatened of in some regard. Needless to say I'd like to avoid such a fate. One thing about living in the city is that you really don't need to drive to do anything. Our Taxi's actually, like, work and stuff.

Totally random, but was I the only one who knew more about what the fuck is going on with Paris Hilton than the astronauts doing a spacewalk? Something is painfully wrong with that.

Spent a good chunk of the day over @ Google's Chicago headquarters. I'm not really at liberty to discuss deets. But suffice to say everytime I'm @ that office, I am in awe of the weird cult like thing they have going on there. People are silly for Google. They live and breathe it. I suppose if my office had an onsite dentist, doctor and gourmet chef, I'd probably live and breathe Google too. They are expanding to the floor above it seems so I guess that means more Googlers meanduring about the various industry functions (largely sponsored by Google to begin with).