I ran my third race this morning, the Saint Patrick’s Day 8K, right down Pennsylvania Avenue. Mayor Fenty gave us a brief pep talk before the race, and then ran with us. I didn’t actually see him, but he finished well ahead of me, I believe. I’ll let you know when they post the results later this afternoon. I’m pretty happy with my race. I don’t know my exact time, but the race clock was about 41 minutes. Since I didn’t start at the front, my actual time is probably 20 seconds or so less than that. Regardless, my average mile time was under nine minutes for the whole five mile race, which was my goal. Edit: 41:07 was my time. That’s 136/386 in my age group, 25-29. Average mile time of 8:17. And I was 738/4045 total, 565/1834 males. Mayor Fenty ran it in 32:20. The wife took some great pictures, one of which you can see here. The rest of the good ones are all up at Flickr. She is, as they say, a real trooper. Race time temperature was barely above freezing, and the wind chill made it feel like it was about 20 F. I have another race coming up in April, the Race to Stop the Silence. This will be my second time running it. It was my first race ever, last year, although they’ve changed the location. It was downtown on Ohio Drive by the water. Now it’s still on the water, but over in Anacostia. Big downgrade, as far as I can tell. But I think the Cherry Blossoms are the same weekend, so that’s probably why they moved it.
Author: Jon
Imus
I can’t believe how much attention this stupidity is getting. _place_holder; Is Imus an idiot for calling the Rutger’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy-headed ho’s?” _place_holder; Definitely. _place_holder; Do I think it is important to rake this guy through the coals and allow both Al Sharpton’s coalition and the conservatives to dwell on the importance of this idiocy and expand it to a matter of national import? _place_holder; No. _place_holder; Imus deserves to be punished by whatever means his company decides (and not by what anyone else says). _place_holder; After that, let it go. _place_holder; Focus on something of real value. _place_holder; Choose Darfur, climate change, the income tax system, or anything that has value. _place_holder; Ignore the comments of a has-been radio host who was trying to drum up ratings and aim higher.
cookies
I swear I wouldn’t eat any junk food if my wife didn’t buy it becuase it was “buy one, get one” or “on sale”. _place_holder; Damnit woman, don’t buy that stuff! I feel oddly compelled to eat it once it crosses the threshold of our house.
this is test complaint
this is just a test.
Inconsiderate Metro Riders
So, the wife is into her third trimester now and is clearly visibly pregnant. She rides the metro from Vienna to Farragut West everyday and then of course back in the afternoon. In the morning she always gets a seat because it’s the first stop on the Orange line. In the afternoon of course she has to cram in with a bazillion other people. In the 26 weeks she’s been pregnant there have been less than 5 people who have offered to let her take their seat and all of them have been women. Not a single man has offered her their seat! Are guys today really that inconsiderate that they can’t offer a pregnant woman or elderly person their seat? I find this unbelievable but sadly expected I guess.
Time Moves to Fast
I know this is a silly complaint, but lately I’ve been angry about how fast time seems to move. SO, if I could submit a complaint here… I’d like to call out “time” — yes, the fourth dimension — for its screwy behavior lately.
Thanks. _place_holder;
Bose in-ear headphones – The review
Awesome sound, especially for only $99 bucks… BUT the effing earbuds keep falling off! No, not out of your ear. When the things aren’t in your ear, the earpiece falls off… continuously. And there’s no way to get new ones. So, once you lose the ones it came with (which is really easy to do unless you only handle your headphones in sealed glass room), you are effed.
This is what I would call a failure of monsterous proportions from Bose. I mean, there is no way that Bose didn’t know that _place_holder;their product _place_holder;does this. It’s impossible. They knew it, and they released them to the market anyway. Goodbye good brand name, hello newest WalMart brand!!
Oh, and this board is still freaking ugly… fix it you lazy bastard.
College football
 _place_holder;West Virginia symbolizes everything that is wrong with college football. _place_holder; They are playing flag football and winning against legitimate football programs. _place_holder; The worst thing that could happen for the BCS would be if West Virginia played any Mike Leach coached team in a bowl game.
 _place_holder;I will literally cry if WVU wins a national championship, and subsequently earns Pat White a Heisman. _place_holder; I’ve never been a bigger Pitt Panthers fan in my life.
And…the Big East is a joke. _place_holder; Their automatic bid to the BCS should be stripped for lack of quality teams. _place_holder;
complaint about test complaints
If you don’t have a complaint to make, why do you care if it works or not?
Mass Email List
People need to check their email distrubution list. _place_holder; Lisa M Donais is sending out mass emails about company expense reports to people who are not employeed by her company. _place_holder; Check and see who your actually sending your email too and that it makes sense for them to receive it.