Later on this afternoon, after a brief layover in New Jersey, I will be headed back to Northern Ireland for work. While I am there for the next week, we will have a special week-long edition of our All-Time White Sox countdown. Enjoy, and see you in about a week.
Another pitiful week, with only 2 days above 5000 steps. Wednesday featured a walk around the campus, while Saturday was helped along by a Cubs/Rockies and White Sox/Mariners double dip.
Not one, but two pictures of my day, at least my weekdays. The first is my desk, with my computer monitor and the different Purdue and White Sox knick-knacks that adorn the wall of my cube. The second picture is my shelf and cube wall, with more knick-knacks and pictures of Angelina, Danny, and Michael.
Another disappointing week, with only 3 days above the 5000 step mark. Tuesday was helped greatly by a trip into the city for dinner at the Weber Grill and the Garbage show at Metro. Friday was helped along by a walk around the campus and a post-work patio party at the home of a former co-worker.
After a day of rest following the 5K, it looked like a good week was in the works. Monday started things off with a nice walk around the campus at work followed by a bowling outing with Danny and Michael. Tuesday was our area picnic, which included some volleyball, which the tool translated in to nearly 9000 steps. From there, things leveled off to their sad normal levels on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday benefited from Elvis Night at the Cell, as a different parking lot led to post-game ramps instead of the escalator. Saturday was another wasted day, with only another Sox game, this time with escalators, on the docket.
15 years ago today, I started my first job out of college as a mainframe developer. With the assumption that this would be a temporary arrangement, I never bothered to move up north to save myself a long commuto. Obviously it has turned in to a little more than that, and the commute has only gotten worse. Thankfully, I am no longer doing development on the mainframe (or anywhere else for that matter), so there has been some growth, both in technology and job responsibilities.
Well, a slow start turned into a pretty good week, helped along, of course, by the 5K on Saturday. The work week itself was pretty good, with every day over 5000 steps and 2 days over 8000. Saturday, between the race and the walk to and from the El, turned out to be my highest step total since I’ve had the tracker, coming in at 14,688 steps.
Tomorrow is the big day, and, thankfully, I was able to get a little training in over the past week once our ANI friends headed back to Belfast and the cornicopia of food ended at work. It’s going to be a tough day on top of the 5K itself. I need to get down to Soldier Field by 5:30 AM, which means I’ll be getting up rediculously early. Assuming I take some sort of public transportation instead of paying for parking, I’ll have a mile walk both to and from the train. That’s a grand total of 5 miles on little sleep, all before noon.
Anyway, my one goal for tomorrow, aside from survival, is to not finish last. As long as I beat one other person, I will feel victorious.
Well, things started off looking like another disappointing, ho-hum week until Thursday, when a combination of a meeting in North plaza followed by a post-work pub crawl and the midnight showing of Batman led to 2 above average days, including the first day over 10,000 steps since April 9th. Saturday included a trip to the Cell for Grinder Bash, a party for White Sox season ticket holders.
Exactly one week ago today, I signed up for the inaugural Big Ten Network Big 10K, or at least the 5K portion of it. In preparation, I’ve done the following training over the past week:
Monday
Dinner at Buca di Beppo with the work crew, including the slightly decadent dessert pictured to the left.
Tuesday
Lunch at Superdawg with ANI, then dinner and drinks at Pizano’s pizza followed by the Fiona Apple concert.
Wednesday
Full slab of ribs from Portillo’s for lunch.
Thursday
Lunch and drinks at the Yardhouse, followed by a night of pizza and beer at Rocky Vanders.
Friday
BBQ pulled pork sandwich for lunch at Smokin’ Ts.
Saturday
Dinner with the visiting ANI folks at Fogo de Chao.