Was able to run two miles today. The last few minutes were pretty tough but I stuck it out. I feel pretty good now. I'm sure I'll be sleepy in a bit. My 10:00 meeting will not help that situation.

I am blaming the beer over the weekend for the weight. We'll see where I am tomorrow. It was a great weekend. We went and had breakfast with santa and his reindeer on Saturday. Bean actually sat on santas lap and asked for apricots and blueberries. I'm sure that was a first for santa.

Slept in this morning. Feels pretty good to do that once in a while. Even if it is unplanned.

[*] Weight is unofficial from the bathroom scale

My back is still pretty stiff from shovelling on friday. I started to run a bit but decided to slow down and take it easy instead. The extra day off made for a nice weekend.

Well there wasn't that much snow on the ground when I woke up so I put some salt down and went to the gym. It started to snow on my way there. I had a good (if not short) run. I sat in the sauna for a bit and took a shower. By the time I left it had snowed pretty hard for about an hour and a half. The roads which were already pretty icy were now worse. It took a while to get down main street. On the way in to work they were announcing school closings. ISU was not on the list. In fact Jim on GLT made it a point to say IWU twice so that we would get the point that ISU was not on the list. I made it to work and checked the ISU home page for news. It listed the lab schools as closed. In 8 pt font in the area with the rest of the headlines. Not very obvious. At 7:00 they decided to close everything. So naturally they added a note to the existing headline that no one would notice. I want the great big drudge report sirens for stuff like this! And! I want it at 4:30 so when I check before the gym I will not drive through all the crap to get to work! The day off was nice though Bean and Owen helped me to shovel the drive way!

Clippy! Clappy!

/obscure?

Slept in a bit today and didn't really do anything at the gym today. Not sure why it's so hard to get going in the morning these days. Maybe it's the weather.

Didn't run today again. Not sure why I can't get myself running in the morning. I was doing pretty well for a while there. I'll have to push harder at it tomorrow.

I had intended on running this morning but just wasn't able to get started. Maybe tomorrow.

What a great weekend! The food went off well. I had lots of good quality time with the wife and kids. Good times. Took it easy at the gym for the first day back. No weigh-ins til thursday this week!

Feeling much better today. Almost Turkey day!!!!