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Well, it was actually a 2009 resolution, so technically this one was nearly 5 months late in completion. Nonetheless, it's done! I ran the Times Colonist 10k, in a pretty darn reasonable time of 52 minutes 47 seconds. That was well under my goal of 60 minutes, and approximately 10 minutes short of my real goal, which is ultimately to beat Jordan. You heard me, old buddy. Next year, it's on.

If I owned one of those live-in rehab places, I'd name it "The Last Resort"

I was out for a walk last night at around 10, and came across -out of pure coincidence - a big apartment fire on Oak Bay Avenue! The top floor of a building, right across from Garden Works, was up in smoke; fire trucks lined the street and residents from the building and elsewhere were gathered around to watch the show... and what a show! I like a good fire. It's primal. I listened to all the people around, as they seemed to be 'giving reasons' to themselves and others for why they were standing there watching... analyzing the job of the fire fighters, talking about how the fire spreads, making phone calls and relating themselves to the one or two people they know who live in the building, and so forth. But they're all really there to watch a little bit of destruction. Our society is so well-built, so carefully shaped right from the buildings to the services to the educations and right up to our minds, that it's pleasing - at least occasionally - to see a little ...

Well, it's high time to write a thing or two. Honestly, if you're reading this, it's a little depressing that you've kept checking all this time to see if I've posted anything. But, still, I am truly grateful! Your diligence will, hopefully, be worth it. So, I ran ten kilometers without stopping the other day (see: new years resolutions 2009!). Took me 59 minutes, which puts my goal of running the TC10k (coming up in 12 days) in under an hour within reach. It's no guarantee though, because that 59-minute run very nearly killed me. I'm changing my goal to 'under 55 minutes', just to keep things interesting. You know, it's good to spend as much time combating your natural weaknesses as you do enhancing your natural strengths. My natural weakness (among many), as far as it seems, is endurance. Every time I practice and work on endurance, it is grueling, painful, difficult, and never does it come easy. So here we are; after months, and I mean months,...