Session #21: 3.3mi / ~46m30s. My first burst was 2 full laps, that is, a half-mile, at 5.4mph. My second and third were at least a full lap, 3rd might have been 1.5 laps. My final burst was 7.0mph. That's a pretty hard running pace, forces me to kick up my heels a bit, but not a full-out sprint. It was sustainable for a half-lap. Less than 2 months ago, a 4.7mph jog was my best half-lap pace. I had been toying for a few weeks with a 4.1mph power-walk phase following my speed phases. After last session,... (...more)

The title kind of says it all - following a virus signature library update, Microsoft Security Essentials popped up a warning that my lappy was infected with "Win32.Zbot", and when I told it yes, go ahead and clean the system, it closed Chrome, dissociated it as the system URL handler and disabled the executable. No, Microsoft, that's not suspicious at all. A mistake anyone could have made, really. Here's the kicker though - after the requested reboot, I had no problem opening Chrome again. No idea how ... (...more)

Session #20 (if you count the Towson U. 5K as session #19): (per Twitter) 3.3mi / 45m58s. I've got my sights set on 3.3mi/45m, which demands a 4.4mph average pace. I don't really know how I'm going to manage that; it doesn't afford me much recovery-pace time and a 4.2mph power-walk pace is not a recovery pace. So I might need to back off from the intermediate power-walk pace and slow down as low as 3.5-3.7mph for a full recovery lap between jogs. A little wheezy due to allergies and/or my immune system ... (...more)

For the past couple years I've been using Phatsoft TMR, a little Windows utility that leverages the Windows Task Scheduler to pop up notifications at a specified time. It does what it does very neatly, and by dicking with tasks at the Task Scheduler level I can create notifications that fire daily but which can be postponed to re-remind me if I can't do whatever daily thing right that moment. The only thing I could ask for more, is if it also had some sort of interface to show a complete list of pending no... (...more)

woah, 10 days since I last updated? There goes my google relevancy ranking! I really need things to fall into place so I can get out of here. It kills me to have such sparse face time with Danielle, and saving up, shopping and logistics of flying up to visit makes me an anxious nut. Thursday I made it to the airport in fair time to get through security. The girl in line behind me seemed to want to strike up a conversation, but we just didn't have a whole lot to say beyond where were going. They weren... (...more)