A good, busy day

Day started, for me, at 6 AM when the alarm went off...snooze for twenty minutes, and then:

I was able to make it through the first 9.5 miles before taking a break. I'm a sweaty guy, so I used that opportunity to switch t-shirts--dehydration is my biggest challenge on these long runs. (Total mileage = 213.2)

Got back home, cleaned up and made homemade pancakes. And then on to music... "band" is what we call it. It's actually a bunch of kids that take guitar lessons--they get together on Sunday mornings and play "Ode to Joy" over and over again. They've also added the theme to the Godfather to their repertoire.

Then, grocery shopping, wash the car, over to the local green grocer, bread from the bakery--and then help Stefanie (who stayed home and did yard work) finish cleaning up yard clippings.

And now, writing this, TV in one ear, kids in the other. A bit of schoolwork, dinner, and then read my book ("Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg" --I'm taking a class on historiography and I'm reviewing this book for the class).

Not an exciting day, but a normal day. Hope you had a nice day today too.

Happy Mother's Day!

11 May 2008--Mother's Day!

Sofia said to me the other day when I asked what she and Dylan thought they should do for Mother's Day that they should wake up before mom and then... jump on the bed and yell: "Happy Mother's Day!" I said, "um, a much better idea would be to let mommy sleep and then make her breakfast." Sofia thought about it for a moment and then said, "that's a much better idea!" So we let mommy sleep and made her pancakes...

Before that though, I went on my longest run yet: 12.3 miles. I got up at 6:30 and the run took about 2 hours. Mileage count is up to 183.59

Here's the route I took:

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Promotion board results

Hooray!

I think that anybody who would ever read this already knows, but I figured, what the hell, why not post it here too:

What this means: on a list of 500 some people who were selected, I'm number 242. The ranking doesn't actually mean much, frankly. The people with lower numbers got promoted to CW2 before me and everybody with higher numbers were promoted to CW2 after...so no big deal.

What this doesn't mean: that I've been promoted. That won't happen until November, most likely. But getting on the list is the most important thing...the promotion is now in the 'inevitable' category.

Hooray!