Well I now have all the pertinent people back in my phone...the girl from last week texted me about the marathon so she's in there, so I'm pretty much back to normal. Anybody I think I'll need to get a hold of between now and whenever I can get their digits some other way.
On the plus side, I've managed to get my phone off the "sounds for fairies" motif and am actually playing with some of the media stuff. I've never been a big phone guy (although I almost dropped the cash for the iphone) but playing with the new features is cool. I installed the Gmail mobile app and it is t3h awesome just as I figured it'd be. So there's some upside to actually having a phone that wasn't designed 7 years ago.
Did my first snow ride on Saturday. Correction: I did my last snow ride . Fuck that noise. I can see where studded tires could be of use, but gaining any traction in the snow is futile. So you end up working twice as hard. I think my overall distance wasn't even 10 miles. Lots of cross country skiers out and they all gave me strange looks. Anyhow...snow cycling isn't near as fun as I thought it'd be, so I'm going to have to find other ways to amuse myself in the great outdoors. I still run, but I hate not having the bike out. I did some rides on the road bike last year and the salt and shit required the crank to be rebuilt this season and I'm not about to go through that again.
My phone debacle and the fact Horowitz's assumptions of what flights cost to Vegas are grossly understated, I think I'll be doing New Years here in Chicago. So yeah...that's that.
I've got a metric fuckton of shit to sort out by the weeks end. My goal is to have this big knowledge base for the company populated before everyone leaves for the holidays. This will mean we can come back at Q1 when all the projects are ready to launch with a rock solid back-end for the n00bs and a go-to for people who needs templates and docs quick. It's been a long time coming but ultimately it is gonna RAWK
So tomorrow marks week 3 (really?) of the Crossfit morning routines. I'm starting to notice things getting tighter. Between now and the summer, I need to shave 10 minutes in running and 20 in the cycle to be "competitive" (aka start placing). That's a tall order, but it seems do-able integrating the strength training.
Tomorrow is the big day. Led Zeppelin reunites. This is obviously one of those things that is going to be either really good or really shit. Prediction: Really good. I dunno, I got high hopes. If they focus the set on songs where Robert Plant doesnt' have to hit the super high wails (aka earlier shit), it could work. Song I RLY wish they'd play? I'm thinking Wearing and Tearing. Chances of them playing that? I'm gonna throw out 5%.