Alex R

We wins, hoorays! :) :)

Tonight: Portland Happy House Loop (3.7 miles).

Now it's time for the Thai food. Food with rockstarling and stereotype441 impending!

Tonight: out to campus and back (6.2 miles).

It's apparently cold and rainy in Portland. Some of us are having to work harder for this than others... you go, rockstarling!

NaRoRuMo -- we're winning it! Now I just have to get all my stuff ready for being gone for a week. (sooner or later, I'ma spend a weekend in Atlanta again, I promise.)

Tonight: Highlands and around the park -- but didn't go out to Briarcliff. (5.0 miles, brisk, made a new map!).

In other fascinating news today: I can make it through "THUNDERHORSE" (y'know, the bonus song from Metalocalypse) on Guitar Hero II. On Hard. Perhaps not time well spent, but definitely satisfying. It'd be cool to learn to play tapping-style guitar like that in real life -- right after I get the double-bass-pedals down, I suppose. (the difference being that I'm working on the latter...)

Oh! And you'll be pleased to know that my name anagrams to "Crunk Deli Ax", which I think is pretty apt. *pfft!* Also "Lax, Nude Rick" and "Irk Unclad Ex". Unfortunate...

Tonight: Highlands and around the park (~ 6.5 miles).

Cool things:
- You can still give inexpensive cool laptops to children in developing countries! Give One Get One has been extended. For half the price, you can just give one, of course. I kind of want an XO, though... might be fun to play with, and it'd certainly make it easier to build software for the childrens...

- Internet Anagram Server (aka "I, Rearrangement Servant"). Lovely, lovely site, for all your anagrammatic needs -- and it's so fast! Clever database-ing on their part, surely. (sort of like that scrabblebot, still in progress...) Your name almost surely has all sorts of anagrams to it! Sadly, their dictionary does not contain the word "crunk", which falls right out of my last name...

No alarm this morning, and it was raining pretty hard anyway -- so we didn't make it out to the Turkey Trot as planned.

But!

Tonight: I staged my own tofurkey trot -- two laps around a nearby subdivision, then out to the main road and back for good measure (12.3 miles). It's nice and cool and gently drizzling here, just beautiful. I feel so good; you don't even know. Just gotta keep this up, and in February (and/or March), the marathoning is going to be pretty ridiculous...

Also! We're good to go for the stunning finale of NaRoRuMo, in which rockstarling and I will both win -- simultaneously! (in a co-located sort of way, in Portland.)

¡Oye Graham cola_fan! ¿Has encontrado un pavo pa comer, amigo mio?

Today: not making new maps either, for another 3.6. Last night was faster. It's not clear why, but I usually feel more comfortable on my legs at the end of the day than at the beginning -- then I've had a whole day to walk around and get warmed up and eat, I suppose. Maybe I just need to stretch out before I run in the mornings.

But I went past an older gentleman, who was sort of shuffling along in a light-blue sweatsuit over by the Flying Biscuit... and then he busted out in a jog. Niiiice.

Tonight's the Aesop Rock show!

Today: Highlands, Little Five, Candler Park, Old Fourth Ward. (8.8 miles)

I set out today trying (as I've done a few times in the past) to find where Moreland runs into Dekalb Avenue, so I can run to Decatur? I always miss the intersection, somehow... it's a lot closer than I think it is. I'm going to have to find some really good landmark (alternatively, maybe you just have to believe /really hard/ that it's there). Then Chris bitterchris will be all like "Where'd you run, boy? Decatuh?"

eta: (looking at the map a little harder -- apparently I need to turn before that big shopping center, even. At that big overpass. I'll get it right next time!)

Tonight: After rocking out with Rob poodleface and Matt yourusername -- the usual (3.6 miles).

Oh man. I'm going to do some extreme sleeping this weekend :) Also running, of course. And reading. So much to learn...

I got up in time to run, woo :)

Today: quick loop around the outside of the park, 3.6 miles. Possibly slightly farther because I went into the park for a little bit and then back out. Lovely with the sun coming in through the trees from that bizarre from-the-east angle I so rarely see...

Tonight: out to the Highlands, Candler Park, and Little Five. 8.8 miles.

(So since the beginning of the month: about 67 miles...)

- Give One Get One!: A hip-happenin' XO laptop is now available for you and your loved ones. It's the very same computer the OLPC crew is making for childrens all over the world. Funky-fresh mesh networking, super-low power consumption ("reading-mode" uses almost no battery), and you can see the screen in bright sunlight. It's all open-source, and you can easily get to the code, so we're going to hopefully accidentally bring about a generation of l337 Python programmers in the developing world. Taking orders now!

- Next week, Aesop Rock is going to be at MJQ. And so am I. You might be too, if you like!