Month: June 2011

  • Farewell, iMac

    A long time ago, back in 2006, I got my second Mac. It was a Core Duo iMac, and at the time it was the most tricked-out Mac you could get your hands on: half-terabyte hard drive, 2GB of RAM, 128MB dedicated graphics card, SuperDrive, and a 20″ screen. It took a week to ship…

  • 25:11

    This morning was the Panther Prowl 5K. It was a pretty small run/walk, smaller probably than the St. Patty’s Day 5K I did back in March, but I had chosen to run this one as part of my 50K goal for Runfos partly because of the distance (I don’t need to train a ton to…

  • Friday Night Adventures

    Before I talk about tonight, I should probably back it up a few days. It’s been an odd week. We’ll begin with Tuesday. Tuesday was a hard day to get through. After not really sticking to any kind of workout regimen the entire week prior due to laziness and a sunburn (mostly laziness), 5:30 came…

  • June’s Forecast: Dry. Very, very dry.

    Last night, following A-Team’s extension of it’s streak to 0-22, I was at an Applebees with a couple of guys from the soccer team and one of them asked me if I was giving up drinking for the month of June. I looked at him with a mix of skepticism and curiosity, and then proceeded…