Things Get So Crazy

More than a week since my last post; IP reminded me that I needed to get back to the blog last week, after my big project at work was over (mostly, at least), but I still had to assist a co-worker with another project (which is now over, too). It’s true that I need to start posting again, though, but I’m sure my three regular readers miss my ravishing wit.

However, if you do read, you know that I’m all about the summary. There’s no better way to compress the recent comings and goings of WordNerd than to compose a list; a nice little package of the new and interesting things in my world.

1. I’m currently listening to Matchbox Twenty’s newest album, Exile on Mainstream. It’s a greatest hits album, but it does have seven new songs (or at least the iTunes download have seven new songs, I think the seventh song is an “exclusive”). I’ve been in love with “How Far We’ve Come” for a few weeks now, streaming it constantly from the band’s site before an iTunes download was available. (That reminds me: I have to do a Matchbox Twenty post one day—Dorkus will know what I mean when I say “TUNES!”) I’m also gaga over Rob Thomas’ “Little Wonders” from the Meet the Robinsons soundtrack. I have ideas for that song that IP will not like.
2. I just realized that New Balance has come out with another updated version of my running shoe of choice. Behold the New Balance 858. I’ll be a sucker and buy the new one rather than buy the discounted 857. Why? I didn’t like the 857 as much as the 856, and I hope the 858 corrects the problems of the 857 (hint: my big toe doesn’t like the 857).
3. On that note, my running’s slowly but surely coming back to me. As you can probably tell from my lack of running posts, I will not be running the Marine Corps Marathon; I was so unexcited to run the race that I wondered on this blog if New York had spoiled me last year. It probably did, and Marine Corps’ lack of communication didn’t help the situation at all. So, no marathon this year, but I am in for New York next year; that’s the race to look forward to, and I might do the National Half Marathon as a tune-up. Anyway, back to my original point: thanks to some legwork, stretching and me successfully challenging the treadmill, running is now comfortable and heading towards longer time spent running (always the goal).
4. I am flying to Michigan this weekend, and will have a four-day weekend thanks to Columbus Day and my request for a day off on Tuesday (by doing this, I avoid a dreaded meeting, too). I will go shopping with my sister and mother, get a much-needed haircut (I said I wasn’t going to go short, but I’m leaning that way, actually), and bask in the glory of Meijer’s liquor aisle (damn these states that think selling liquor at a grocery store is somehow wrong). I also hope to get some sleep (hint, hint, Mother, please do as I asked and buy new linen for my old bed and I will pay you for it); if I do not get sleep, Tuesday next will be spent entirely in bed. Or at least part of it will, as I will need to get up to do some cleaning and to go to the gym.
5. After Michigan, it will be time to start work on a new project that was my light at the end of the tunnel. Well, I’m at the other end of the tunnel now, and this will be a fun experience. As long as I don’t end up talking to a volleyball on some remote, uninhabited island, that is.
6. It was mentioned today that reviews are coming up. Raise time!
7. A friend will be visiting at the beginning of November, in town for a conference; it will be fun to hang out with her, though she is bringing along some fellow conference participants. I hate to admit it, but I’ll be going into event mode for that. Hopefully no D.C. tours are expected because I do not want to give anyone any tours. At all. I will, however, go to Gordon Biersch and drink if that’s the ultimate plan.
8. I am saving up vacation hours so that IP and I will have the ability to head west again well before next summer. We don’t know when we’ll do it, but that’s probably what those hours will be used for; a needed winter break for us crazy kids.

And that is it for now, but hopefully I’ll be able to post more in the coming days. An update of the book list will happen after I begin reading the books from Barnes and Noble that were delivered today. More running posts to come. And more drunken nights at Gordon Biersch!