I'm a geek, I've always been a geek.  I love books about space.  Star Trek was probably my introduction to the Sci/fi genre, I loved TOS books, but watched TNG more.  One of my favourite books, a Spider and Jeanne Robinson book, Starseed, is about a dancer who can't dance on earth anymore so she decides to move to outerspace (there's a goo that ( Read more... )

Well I didn't really feel it, but everyone is talking about the earthquake.  They felt it in Midland, and Barrie, but I guess I was so busy I didn't notice.  For my former students who asked me why I was so excited about my first earthquake in Japan, it's because we rarely get them.  Here's a local news story about it for those who want to read ( Read more... )

My cousin is going to do the triathlon with me.  We're going to train together, which will be nice.  I'm probably stronger than her with the swim but she's a runner, so I'm hoping she'll push me rather than me getting depressed at her being better than me ( Read more... )

So, Saturday was my Grandmother's 80th birthday.  We had a big surprise party for her 75th, of course the joke was that hopefully we wouldn't scare/suprise her too much, and she said that all she wanted was a big party for 80, since it was a pretty big deal.

( Pictures of prep and party )

So, I've decided that I'm going to do the Barrie Triathlon.  It's about half the length of an olympic triathlon.  A 700m swim, 20k bike, and 5k run.  I did it 2 years ago and ended with a time of 2:13:49.  I'm hoping to get under 2hrs.  So to start training I decided that I'd do my 5k run after my spells class (spinning and kettlebells).  My time ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ran 5K...why is this such a big deal? because I ran it outside.  I went up and down hills, got stopped at a light, all the joys of running outside.  My time was 45:30, which isn't too bad since my best time inside was about 38:30 or so.  I went from doing just under 8 mins a K to 9 mins a K.  I'm pretty happy with that.  Tomorrow will ( Read more... )

Or should that be a kilometerstone.... For the first time in a really long time I jogged continuously for 1km.  It wasn't amazingly fast, in fact it was a little slower than my kms at the gym, but it was outside, on an uneven path (a loop around my neighbourhood).  I forgot to time it exactly, but I know when the songs changed, so I'm guessing it ( Read more... )

Well, I'm doing a weight loss challenge at my gym (Exercise for the Prize) and after being injured and not working out until Monday, and only really cleaning up my eating on Monday as well, when I weighed myself this morning I was down!  Last week I was 252.4, this week I am 247.4!! WOOOT WOOOT!  Imagine how much I can lose if I actually ate ( Read more... )

I went to the gym twice yesterday, and this morning I ran my 5K.  It wasn't my best time, however I did manage to run 3 of the 5K.  I usually run and walk on a time basis, but today I thought I'd try distance so I know how much I've actually run.  I'll do a run again Thursday.  My best time is about 39 minutes, today was 43ish.  I'm still happy ( Read more... )

Well I got some of my apartment orgainzed, the living room, the kitchen and my bedroom.  I still have the bathroom, the spare bedroom, the dining room and I need to get rid of some boxes of stuff.  I'm also thinking of getting rid of some of my books.  Just the stand alones that I know I'll never read again...and maybe some of the stuff that's ( Read more... )