So this trip has been pretty fantastic so far... Sensory overload. Epic architecture, crazy history, good company. So far, i've hit London, Paris, the beaujolais, Barcelona, and now the French riviera. Too bad this keyboard on the iPad isn't so great to type long entries on... Will update more later when I get to a proper keyboard. Ciao.

So I shall attempt to revive my lj with some quick entries about my Europe trip. Today is my first day here, starting off in London. That conversation in pulp fiction about the little differences is becoming apparent... Garbage=rubbish. Elevator=lift. So on and so forth ( Read more... )

so last week, i ran the shamrock shuffle... it's only an 8k, but for some reason, it really kicked my ass. i mean, i've run longer races before, but i don't know why this took me out of commission for a whole week ( Read more... )

so the dallas trip was pretty bananas... the cowboys stadium is ridiculously large. like, if noah's story needed 8 of each animal instead of just 2, that stadium would be a good replacement for the ark ( Read more... )

so my weekends are starting to become as uneventful as my weekdays... this is a sad sad predicament. i definitely need to up the adventure points. adventure points, i say... paid out by, you know, the deities of all things random and trivial, for they are the chefs that wield the spices of life. yeah ( Read more... )

bracing myself for impact on most days. working on that.

saturday morning hustle.

get yours.

18 more days until the shamrock shuffle... it's an 8k (just about 5 miles) run through downtown chicago. there are usually about 30 thousand people who run it every year to kick off running season. i did it last year when it snowed about 9 inches. that shit was bananas, son ( Read more... )

quick update before my toaster oven with the pizza goes "bing".

damn. too late.

next time.

hahaha. eh.

so i'm taking a break right now. currently at work, crunching numbers... analysis paralysis. nothing to write a limmerick about ( Read more... )

so i was at the gym today, and apparently there was some sort of customer appreciation thing going on... ya know... ballons, raffles, music... AND, there was free food catered by Harold's chicken! now, if you ain't from chicago, you wouldn't know that Harold's chicken (fried chicken) is a chicago institution that pumps thru the cholesterol ( Read more... )