Entries from January 2010

By Hand, The Technical Way

Date January 29, 2010

So I thought that the Upgrade to my blog would be easy… well, it was except that I had an error saying that I couldn’t upgrade to WordPress 2.9.1 because MySQL db was something like 4.0.69 and it needed to be like 4.1.3. No Problem… Export old db, Make NEW MySQL database 5.something, Import and [...]

Rain then Race

Date January 22, 2010

Yesterday (Thursday Jan 21 2010), the weather peeps said that there would be Rain and more Rain until the afternoon and then a break and then MORE rain. And sure enough, the morning time was surely rainy and so I concluded that a lunchtime run wouldn’t fit into the schedule. Plus the fact that we [...]

Determinated, despite no shorts

Date January 19, 2010

“planet3rry Getting ready to do a lunchtime run… MAN it has bem a loooong time! http://tinyurl.com/yd7e58e about 2 hours ago from Tweed” From my twitter on Tuesday (1/19/2010), I was VERY excited about getting back into the Run-At-Lunch thing that I used to do, but hadn’t in MONTHS. I think sometime November, I ran ONCE [...]

Something completely different

Date January 17, 2010

For Christmas, we received a juicer… Yes, one that we saw on an Infomercial… No, not pitched by the Late Great Billy Mays. We felt this would help us have a healthier diet by being able to drink the blood of fruits, vegetables and anything else that would fit in there. We very much enjoy [...]

Internet 60 minutes at a time

Date January 15, 2010

[This was written on New Year's Eve...] Our household has been without internet since September as a way to cut spending. Also at the end of September, we turned off our home phone AND our Cable. Although, we have not totally become TV free in our household, we have made that step to stop the [...]

2009 Flying Monkey Marathon Race Report

Date January 14, 2010

2009 Flying Monkey Marathon Race Report Date 11.22.2009 Location: Percy Warner Park, Antioch TN Abstract This was my second consecutive running of this race, and while I was excited about the event, I was grossly undertrained. With low motivation in August, when training was supposed to start, to a sliced heel in September and then [...]