i keep somewhat modest goals in life. i don’t expect to become an astronaut or hit a game winning home run in the world series. i registered for the crescent city classic and wanted to run the race in under an hour. today i ran it in 59:36. so my goal to run a 10k in under an hour was accomplished today. i may have been able to run faster had not so many walkers gotten in the front. once i got to about 2 miles, i was able to run at my usual pace. i did pass a guy with the same running shoes as me, so i told him “nice shoes” as i ran past him. i was doing good up until mile 4, and i started to get tired. so i’m not sure how much i slowed down, but i know i did. i didn’t see a clock from the halfway point to the end of the race, so i had no idea. anyway, once i saw the finish line, i started sprinting. so much so that about 100 yards before the finish i realized “if i keep running like this i’m going to puke”, so i realized i’d make it under an hour and dialed the speed back to cross the finish line in under an hour. :) cool. then i came home and rode my bike around the neighborhood, so i bought back 11 pts (WW pts) before noon. (what up robbi!) :)

i had a meeting with my boss yesterday, i guess the yearly evaluation debriefing type thing. i got a good review, and then i got to talk to him about my thoughts. i think he can tell i’m looking to get a new job. and i’m really not sure if i want to do that. my friend andy points out that we have an easy job and we get paid handsomely for it. (actually, he doesn’t use ‘handsomely’, but i like that word to describe monetary compensation) and its true, i don’t do anything really hard and get paid an engineer’s wage. so i should be happy right? i just don’t feel i’m using the experience i gained at school. i mean, yeah, i pretty much had it tough in school, but i want to use that instead of use it to get an easy job. so i don’t know what i want to do. i do know that i want to paint a few of the rooms in my house. so at least i know that much.