Truckin'

Ah, this past Friday was my last day at LibreDigital. I had an exit interview at 10:AM. Co-workers took me out to lunch at 11:30. Turned in my laptop and key card, and I was out the door by 2:00. The whole thing ended rather ignobly. My exit interviewer was a bit argumentative. Come on, if you ask me for my opinion as to why the development staff is frustrated, I'm going to give you my honest opinion. Just take the information and try to do good with it. It's my opinion - don't try to convince me it's not valid.

I got home from work around 2:30 and was just exhausted! I didn't realize how much stress I had been carrying around until I laid down on the couch. I was on that couch a good 3 hours before Maurie texted me and asked about seeing 127 Hours. At this point I thought I should at least get off the couch (if only to take a bio break), so I said sure.

Let me tell you, 127 Hours is an intense film. Not relaxing at all. Don't get me wrong, it's really good. And James Franco does an amazing job. It's just not very relaxing. And definitely not for the squeamish.

Looking to re-unwind, Saturday morning, I went out to Town Lake and ran 10 miles in my new shoes, the Asics Gel Nimbus v.12. Nice shoes. I tend to forget how much cush leaves a shoe after a year until I get a new pair. Nice flashy lime green too.


I wonder if the shoe industry will take a cue from the mattress manufacturers and point out that the weight of your shoe nearly doubles in 8 years due to sweat, dead skin, and dust mites. Yes, dust mites.

I've also decided my favorite bands to run to are the Allman Brothers, the Raconteurs, and the Flaming Stars. I really need to take the Cowboy Junkies and Mazzy Star off the iPod.

I started to call it an early night, but lying in bed I remembered that I needed to adjust the eccentric bottom bracket on the tandem for Sunday's ride. The chain kept falling off the last time the tandem was out. Very frustrating. Well, the task turned out to be a little more involved than I originally thought - requiring me to remove the crank arms and actually touch a greasy chain.

The Sunday morning tandem ride with Alison, Karen, and Glenn was a lot of fun. Cold and windy - I think it was below 50 degrees when we started (and I think minus 30 with the wind chill factor) - but a lot of fun. We headed East from Hyde Park along 51st Street to Springdale Rd. Springdale to East 12th. Up 12th to 11th. Then brunch at the Blue Dahlia Bistro. It was my first visit to the Blue Dahlia - the food was good, but the chocolate croissant was amazing.


We took Red River and Speedway back to Hyde Park. After a long, long, hot shower, I was pretty useless the rest of the day.

This last shot is just me doing the dishes sometime this afternoon. I though the blue dish in the white porcelain sink looked pretty cool.


First day back at Dell tomorrow. Looking forward to it!