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Church & Market. Pretty soon this will be my neighborhood, or close enough anyway. It’s been a rough week at work and I don’t really expect tomorrow to be any easier. But I’ve spent some time enjoying what my city has to offer. What will soon be

7.90 miles this morning in 1:34:25. That’s a pretty slow pace, averaging about 12 minutes to the mile. But there are two mitigating factors that give this the feel of glorious victory. 1) Well, that is the third longest distance I’ve ever covered. I’ve

Bad habit of mine: getting two tickets to an event and THEN looking for a date. It’s a low self-esteem thing I guess, where I feel I need to bribe other people to spend any time with me. In my history I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on events

I went to bed at 9:45 last night, intending to get enough sleep to get up early to run this morning. I’ve gotten pretty reasonable at waking up, something I never was when I was younger. To bed before 10:00pm is really what I need to do;

I speculated earlier [https://splicer.com/2004/06/20/new-shoes/#comment-1254] at the terror I would feel if I were a parent of a teenaged daughter who listened to H.I.M. or some other suicide-glamorizing satanic glam rock. But actually, after a few minutes of reflection I realized that

Didn’t run today at all. Instead, I made a trip across town to On The Run, a shoe store that specializes in runners footwear. The store came recommended by friends who run and I had decided it was time to at least attempt to take better care of my

I count it a small victory to wake up before the alarm goes off. As a lifetime snooze-button abuser and late sleeper, I’m amazed and heartened when my unconscious mind grabs the bootstraps and pulls me into wakefulness at the appropriate time. I wonder if that is a testament