Last week, I discovered that the camera on my Nexus 7 was no longer working.  I was unable to find a troubleshooting page that addressed a camera failure.  I called the support number I found for Google devices.  I was expecting to be run through a series of checks to verify that the camera was indeed inoperative.  Instead, they accepted my ( Read more... )

I ran four days last week for a total of 8.4 miles.

A good start. All of these were basically 30 minute sessions. I'm building slowly to significantly longer sessions over the next couple months. On Friday through Sunday, I also walked outside with my wife with each walk ranging from 1.4 to 2.5 miles. Thursday saw some strength training for the USAF ( Read more... )

My goals for 2012 are:

1. Stay healthy
2. Train consistently
3. Finish MCM, secondary goal of marathon PR (<6:45)
4. HM PR (<2:28)
5. 10K PR (<55 minutes)

Just have a nasty experience.

Adobe Flash has been whining about needing to be updated for a while now. I finally let it try to do the update, but that was failing. I figured it was just a bad network connection. Well, Firefox just got updated and had a banner about updating Flash, so I went that route. I downloaded the installer and fired it off. I ( Read more... )

This is a reality check for me.

If you asked the following question through a utility's web form:
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I really hate this time of the political season.  Everyone and their uncle is calling.

We have robodialers leaving messages on the machine.  These are the worst when I am actually present to answer the phone.  There isn't someone to talk at.

We have various groups all convinced we have nothing better to do than listen to whatever it is they have to ( Read more... )

I completed my third half marathon in 2 hours and 34 minutes.  This wasn't as good as I had hoped, but I did finish and I learned a few things along the way.  "That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger."

I need to be more consistent in my training.  While my most recent race was more challenging, I was better prepared for that race having more ( Read more... )

In my second half marathon, I have managed to improve on the time I got in my first by just over 4 minutes.  My official time was 2:28:48.

My goals going into this were fairly simple:
A> I wanted to finish ahead of the cut-off
B> I wanted to beat my previous time (2:32:52)
C> I wanted to beat 2:30:00

I was successful in all of these and even managed a ( Read more... )

Last year, I ran a remote version of this race in Iraq. That is still my PR for 10K. However, the tag line for this race is "Sea Level is for Sissies". Since Balad is only at 164 feet ASL, I felt the need to remedy that by running the real thing. The highest point on the course is at 5391 feet.
I went into this with the plan to finish well. My ( Read more... )

My original plan for Friday was to pick up lunch and share it with my wife at her office.  As I was taking the exit, the engine died.  I was able to do a compression start, but it died again as soon as I slowed down.  I was able to pull completely onto the shoulder.  I called my wife to inform her of the change in plans.  I then called AAA who sent ( Read more... )