Yesterday I ran my first Azalea Trail Run. It was fun. My official time wasn't great, 53-something because I started kinda far back, but my net (actual) was a respectable 52:28. I wish they would post that in the results. It wasn't my record, but close enough considering I hadn't been training real hard. Only saw a few familiar faces in the crowd but one...I was running along, somewhere between two and three miles, and heard "John!" I looked over, and it was Ryan Parker! He was chugging along at a good clip, we said hi, I said if he sees my lying in the road ahead to "just go over me", then I proceeded onward apace.
Here's something else that happened yesterday: BaconFest '08. I hate that I missed it.
I have new pictures up on Flickr. Scenes from life around here a few months ago, and I'm slowly uploading the photos from my great weekend in the Bay Area a few weeks ago for Eli's wedding.
And some big picture news: I'll be leaving my job in a few days and visiting LA for a week or so to follow some leads.
That's all for now. Have a good Sunday...
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Ernice Kirkland in the News
To my fellow UMS-Wright alums: our favorite chalk-jerking earth science teacher was in the paper recently! (and under different variant of his name):
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Friday, March 07, 2008
In the News
Good article on Josh in the Brown Daily Herald.
I'm off to SF in a few hours for Eli's wedding! And Sunday night at the Silverboard house!
I'm off to SF in a few hours for Eli's wedding! And Sunday night at the Silverboard house!
Monday, March 03, 2008
Segall for Congress Picking Up Speed
Josh was in the Washington Post yesterday. Like I've been saying, with good coattails and trade winds, he has a great shot at winning this campaign. He had a great public kickoff a few weeks ago, and with things like the Post article, it's clear that people are taking notice and seeing this as a winnable race.
Check out www.joshuasegall.com for more on Josh and the race (and admire my photography), and please join me in supporting him. Even if you can't vote in AL-3, a contribution would be a huge help. It takes a lot of money to beat an incumbent and the more we contribute, the better a campaign Josh can run, bringing in more attention and money and support, and it'll just snowball all the way to victory in November. Change always comes slowly to Alabama, but it's our generation's turn to step up, get involved, and make things happen for the betterment of the state and the country. Get on board, let's make a difference!
Check out www.joshuasegall.com for more on Josh and the race (and admire my photography), and please join me in supporting him. Even if you can't vote in AL-3, a contribution would be a huge help. It takes a lot of money to beat an incumbent and the more we contribute, the better a campaign Josh can run, bringing in more attention and money and support, and it'll just snowball all the way to victory in November. Change always comes slowly to Alabama, but it's our generation's turn to step up, get involved, and make things happen for the betterment of the state and the country. Get on board, let's make a difference!
Early March Update
Been awhile. Howya doin'?
February was a bit slow for me after Mardi Gras (exciting photos here), but things are heating up a little now. Finally making a little headway on the job search. More on that as it develops. Other items:
Josh's campaign is picking up speed and gaining national notice. More on that in another post.
Also picking up speed is life at Dog River: Mom & Dad got an iMac! After being without computer for a few years, they finally got high-speed internet, wireless, and topped it off with a stunning 20" iMac. I've been helping them learn it, and Mom has become quite the video chatter!
I'm awaiting some Apple goodness of my own right now: my Time Capsule should be here in a few days, adding a second backup solution to the LaCie drive I clone my system to every week or so. Good peace of mind.
Next weekend I'm going out to Cali for the wedding of Eli, one of my LA friends. The wedding is up in Muir Beach, where he grew up. Just so happens that there was recently a great article in the NYT about the very area where the wedding will be, and there's going to be a wedding party hike Saturday morning on probably some of the same trails in the article. Check it out!
Northrup/EADS won the contract for the next Air Force tanker, which means Mobile is gonna build giant airplanes! This is huge for the city, region, and state. The steel mill was huge too, economically, but of course there are concurrent environmental and other issues with that. The tanker is much more exciting for me, because it's right in town, at Brookley, revitalizing that great old airfield; it brings a high-tech & high-skilled industry and workforce; furthers Mobile's development and modernization (hopefully it will be done smartly); and best of all, it's giant planes! That's one thing Mobile has always lacked that many great cities have - exciting air traffic!
And speaking of exciting air traffic, there go Branson and Virgin, kicking ass again.
And did you see this? Amigos de Obama. Fantastic song & video!
Otherwise, things have been pretty ho-hum here, just working, following the presidential race, and just trying to enjoy still being home but also working on my next move. The weather's been nice. And I can happily report that I've made jambalaya twice in the last week or so. That stuff's damn good!
Later...
February was a bit slow for me after Mardi Gras (exciting photos here), but things are heating up a little now. Finally making a little headway on the job search. More on that as it develops. Other items:
Josh's campaign is picking up speed and gaining national notice. More on that in another post.
Also picking up speed is life at Dog River: Mom & Dad got an iMac! After being without computer for a few years, they finally got high-speed internet, wireless, and topped it off with a stunning 20" iMac. I've been helping them learn it, and Mom has become quite the video chatter!
I'm awaiting some Apple goodness of my own right now: my Time Capsule should be here in a few days, adding a second backup solution to the LaCie drive I clone my system to every week or so. Good peace of mind.
Next weekend I'm going out to Cali for the wedding of Eli, one of my LA friends. The wedding is up in Muir Beach, where he grew up. Just so happens that there was recently a great article in the NYT about the very area where the wedding will be, and there's going to be a wedding party hike Saturday morning on probably some of the same trails in the article. Check it out!
Northrup/EADS won the contract for the next Air Force tanker, which means Mobile is gonna build giant airplanes! This is huge for the city, region, and state. The steel mill was huge too, economically, but of course there are concurrent environmental and other issues with that. The tanker is much more exciting for me, because it's right in town, at Brookley, revitalizing that great old airfield; it brings a high-tech & high-skilled industry and workforce; furthers Mobile's development and modernization (hopefully it will be done smartly); and best of all, it's giant planes! That's one thing Mobile has always lacked that many great cities have - exciting air traffic!
And speaking of exciting air traffic, there go Branson and Virgin, kicking ass again.
And did you see this? Amigos de Obama. Fantastic song & video!
Otherwise, things have been pretty ho-hum here, just working, following the presidential race, and just trying to enjoy still being home but also working on my next move. The weather's been nice. And I can happily report that I've made jambalaya twice in the last week or so. That stuff's damn good!
Later...
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