The dreaded words: “windows has downloaded updates”

Workout notes Still sore from yesterday; so I swam 2200 yards at the Riverplex. This soreness is just a “you used muscles you aren’t used to using and you went hard” soreness; not an injury soreness.

I leave for Austin, Texas after lunch; I might get in a treadmill workout when I get to my motel this evening.

More photos

Here are a couple of me from yesterday’s trail race

1. I almost look as if I were running.

2. I look as if I were walking.

Oh well. Improvement takes time.

Rant I got the dreaded “windows has installed updates” and “you need to do X, Y, and Z” to install them. This stuff always takes forever; one sort of “it will probably never happen” goal is to learn enough about computers to be able to do all of this myself and to tell microsoft to kiss my…
never mind.

New blog: Called the Obama Letdown Watch; many are concerned that O is now going toward the center and turning “business as usual”. In fact, BHO never campaigned as a liberal; the difference between him and HRC was mainly one of

1. Running a better campaign.
2. Placing more emphasis on “bottom up change” than “top-down”
3. Not being quite as exploitative on people’s weaknesses as her campaign was.

Nevertheless, their world views aren’t all that different.
Personally, I’d love to see them work together; if only we could get WJC to grow up.

John McCain: whining again. So much for his “respectful campaign”.

Galesburg (IL) Railroad Days 5K

The 5K: Barbara wanted to do a road race so we drove to Galesburg, IL for the 5K (they also offered a road mile and 10K).

I decided to walk hard. Sort of. My time was 32:13 by my watch. Mile splits: 10:34, 10:26, 11:12 (10:10 pace for the 1.1). Mostly I chased a pack of mostly women and caught them; one got me back in the final .1 miles (these people were running).

Barbara did ok; she ended up with 55:10 for her 5K. That got her 3′rd place her age group.

Before the race

Last .1

From the side

home stretch

The trophies are railroad spikes. I have a few of these from 1998 and 1999.

A close up of Barbara’s butt.