My ribs hurt from laughing so hard at Henri’s pain.
the moment when my common sense left me. i fear permanently.
SF Marathon Route - Photo from SF Chronicle
People run marathons all the time. No big whoop. They survive. They train for months and clock a lot of hours. They run for hours in pouring rain and with shin splints. On race day they manage to wake up at 0300 hrs, eat and as Sheldon says “evacuate their bowels” on demand. They drive 1.5 hours to their destination and arrive with time to spare when the race starts at 5:30 am. Then they run for over 4 hours on crowded roads, steep hills and swaying bridges (twice) and general San Francisco insanity. And love every minute of it!
26.2 miles. July 29th. Five (5) months to train (started last month) and things are going well despite some shin splint issues. Since I’m quite happy with the half marathon distance and 10Ks, I am not sure what behooved me to sign up. It must have been those crazy endorphins talking.
Who’s running the SF Marathon with me?
(edited to add this link by the Huffington Post – Who runs a marathon?)
Presenting: Geekgirl707
Yup. This just about describes it.
After about 36 hours of tinkering and plugging away at my blog and google, I think the el bloggo is back up and running. And my domain is as fresh as the driven snow. Paid up for a year. And set to auto-renew… heh.
“707″ is my area code. “415″ was the CA penal code for causing a disturbance but I think 707 is fine, if not a little bland. Whatevs. Go Daddy and friends will not get this one and that’s all that matters.
My Twitter is changed now to Geekgirl707 if you’re one to follow that too.
What happens when you don’t pay your bills…
Did you visit in the last couple days and see a mess of a blog?
Ya, sorry about that. I forgot to pay my annual domain fee for WordPress.
They only reminded me for months and the measly $12 wasn’t a hardship. I just forgot!
But the bigger problem is now my domain, www.geekgirl415.com has been absconded with. Apparently there are people out there sucking these things up once they are left unattended. The sneaky, underhanded way of doing business makes me think it’s time for a domain change. They can have my old domain- it’s not going to be bought up by anyone else so it’s their problem now! Hah, suckers!
So for now, update your Google Reader or whatever to www.geekgirl415.wordpress.com. It’s mine forever and WP isn’t going to mess with it. I would be remiss if I didn’t give a shout out to the WP peeps for helping me with this. I guess there are a lot of us slackers out there and they were still friendly and helpful despite answering the same questions a million times over. As soon as I figure out where this blog is going, I’ll let you know.
And if you have a domain that you want to keep forever, be sure to pay the fee on time!!
What I haven’t been doing.
Or; What happens when a book series grabs on and won’t let go.
Dishes. Not Done.
Basic Housekeeping. Marginal.
Laundry. HAH!
Running. ???
For one week, working. 40 hrs sick time used
For one week, getting dressed. See above
Taking photos. Uhhh, what?
Blogging. As you know.
Actually the list is shorter if I share what I HAVE been doing in the last month when I haven’t been doing those things. I’ve been obsessed with reading the book series by George R.R. Martin; A Song of Ice and Fire. Commonly known as Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows and my most current volume, A Dance with Dragons.
If you know of these books, then you understand.
Early in January, I was sick for six full days- the Flu. Last December, I got my first ever Flu Shot. Three weeks later, I had the worst Flu I’ve ever had. That Flu kept me home a week. (It turned into bronchitis, then walking pneumonia – this post marks the return of feeling normal. Which, in my defense, explains much of the “haven’t dones” on my list above also). What kept me company were the books and my doggins on the bed with me.
Eventually I finished the 4th in the series and the 5th book, A Dance with Dragons, was only available in hardcover and it was $35. If you know of these books, then you know they are BIG books. Thick. Small print. LOTS of stuff going on in the books that cannot be shortened.
Man, I want to be reading right now.
As badly as I wanted to read aDwD, I didn’t want to be burdened with that huge volume. Funny how just a few years ago, there wouldn’t have been a second thought about buying/reading a large hardcover. Maybe you’d check around for a discount but that was it. The idea of spending $80 on a book gadget in order to read a book less than half that price would be laughable.
But that’s what I did. Hello, Kindle. $79 for the very basic Kindle, $59 for the lighted cover and $15 for A Dance With Dragons. A little indulgent, yes. But when the 6th book comes out, I’ll be ready at any time of day or night, won’t I? No midnight lines at the bookstore for me!
For those familiar with the series, you also know we have a very long wait. The good news is season 2 of Game of Thrones starts April 1 on HBO.
Are you reading these? I’ve been hard up to find another person reading them (because they’ve been out over 15 years and there’s still TWO more books to finish it- poor fans who started way back in the ’90s). Then a couple of weekends ago at our Bodega Bay girlfriend getaway, I discovered two of my girlfriends were reading the books. One just started… and one was two books behind me. In the middle of the Friday night drinking, we stole away to a quiet room to discuss the books and could not contain ourselves (book talk over drinking?).
As a person who doesn’t care for the Fantasy genre, I was surprised at how much this story sucked me in. So for over a month, I’ve been a slacker. But I should warn you: if you’re a person who doesn’t like senseless gore, incestuous relationships, rampant deceit and treachery, and the death of beloved characters, perhaps you might skip it.
Can you tell I love that?
Related articles
- Review: A Song of Ice and Fire Series (thereadingitch.wordpress.com)
- George R.R. Martin: A Lesson and a Warning (theaberrantpen.wordpress.com)
- Thoughts: A Feast for Crows (thereadingitch.wordpress.com)
- A Look Back at A Dance With Dragons (tor.com)
