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  • Shared today on Twitter

    On the plus side, I finished the Half-Marathon! On the minus side, SOME JERK STOLE MY IPHONE. Cops, Lost & Found, running around, craziness.

    Seriously. Rang it repeatedly and SMSed and everything. We’re home now. Rang Optus, rang the cops, changed all my passwords…

    BUT I KILLED THAT RACE EVEN WITHOUT IT, DAMMIT. HOW’S THAT, UNIVERSE? WHATCHA GOT NOW? BRING IT ON.

    I have a ridiculous small hope that someone still might hand it in. But it’s been 6 hours. JERKS!

    @tinkabel I did, and I was supposed to. I dropped it. Someone picked it up. Someone didn’t turn it in. Someone is gonna be sorry!

    Me: *gasp* “They could tick off all my To Do list items!” Snook: “BASTARDS!”

    @kunaal84 It was not. So I changed all the accessible stuff – email, Twitter, FB, etc. Everything else is behind my super password safe.

    @kunaal84 I wondered about that. They can’t get in to it. Anything they try will prompt them to enter it? (It’s not the one I gave you!)

    @kunaal84 Eh, I changed it anyway. Can’t hurt.

    Successfully procured a new SIM card (thanks @optus!). Now locating charger to old dumbphone. I miss my stolen iPhone like a limb. 🙁

    Official time: 2:58:59. OOF. My worst by FAR. Still, considering my physical and mental state, it was a hard-won victory of sorts.

    WAIT! I was reading it wrong! 2:42:02. That’s much more like I expected. THANK GOD.

    Behold my backup mobile: Spider-Phone. http://twitpic.com/2pywqh Do I look thrilled? Because I’m not thrilled.

    Claim has been created with GIO. Now I just need to get a new iPhone! (My first insurance claim. I feel like a grown-up.)

    @stufromoz Frankly I’m more worried about queuing at Apple for 2 hours on completely shattered legs!

    @stufromoz That’s how long Snook waited the first time. Is it shorter now? I thought there were still stock shortages? (Might go over today)

    @stufromoz Only 32GB in stock right now. Will have to wait a couple days, I guess!

    @stufromoz They’ve only got a “handful,” and he reckons they’ll be gone by lunchtime. 🙁

    @@carbolicious Garçon. (Type “garcon” in google. Copy and paste from results. 🙂 )

  • Shared today on Facebook

    On the plus side, I finished the Half-Marathon! On the minus side, SOME JERK STOLE MY IPHONE. Cops, Lost & Found, running around, craziness.

    What am I forgetting? Called Optus, got the account barred and the handset bricked. Called the cops to get an incident number. Changed my email passwords. Changed my online banking passwords; changed my Twitter and Facebook passwords… Anything I’m forgetting? Do we really think a thief is gonna, like, check into Foursquare or something?

    Check out the 21.10 km run I did with RunKeeper – Just a placeholder time for now until I get my official time!

    Me: *gasp* “They could tick off all my To Do list items!” Snook: “BASTARDS!”

    Successfully procured a new SIM card (thanks @optus!). Now locating charger to old dumbphone. I miss my stolen iPhone like a limb. 🙁

    Official time: 2:58:59. OOF. My worst by FAR. Still, considering my physical and mental state, it was a hard-won victory of sorts.

    WAIT! I was reading it wrong! 2:42:02. That’s much more like I expected. THANK GOD.

    Behold my backup mobile: Spider-Phone. http://twitpic.com/2pywqh Do I look thrilled? Because I’m not thrilled.

  • I FINISHED!

    21.1km complete!
    Just a very quick note – I FINISHED THE RUN! I can’t be more specific than that, as I lost my iPhone right before the run. YES, THAT SUCKED. I ran around like a maniac to every lost-and-found at the starting line and no one turned it in. And then I begged someone else’s phone to try calling it – no answer – and then calling Rodd, whose race started later. So then I had to run the whole thing without any music, without GPS, with my timed intervals. I have no idea what my time was, but goddammit, I finished that race! The past two hours have been a blur of calling Optus to get the handset barred, calling the cops to get an incident report, changing passwords, etc. Now we’re going to go get food.

    AND HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

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    Cleaning out 2000 emails from my Yahoo Inbox wasn’t on the To Do list, but that doesn’t make it feel like any less of an accomplishment.

    My cat is a big bag of fuzzy-wuzzy cuddly-wuddly guts. http://twitpic.com/2ph8r4

    @jyesmith I’m doing the Half. Best of luck!

    @thezedmiester AGAIN?

    4:30am. Actually got a decentish sleep! I’m rarin’ to go! Bring on the race!

  • Shared today on Facebook

    By this time tomorrow, I will hopefully be relaxing after my Half-Marathon and waiting for the Snook to finish his 9K!

    4:30am. Actually got a decentish sleep! I’m rarin’ to go! Bring on the race!

    Started my race day by falling down the steps! I’m okay tho. Only bruised my ego. 🙂

    6am. Waiting at the end of the bathroom queue. Nearly ready to go!

  • RunningBlog: Week 37

    I left this a bit late… because the big race is tomorrow! I’m just about ready to go. Thankfully my cold passed within a week without too much drama, and it never moved into my lungs. (I credit several “hot whiskeys” from a sympathetic barman last weekend.) I’ve had massages each of the last two weeks in an attempt to deal with my continuing lower back and hip soreness. I even went to yoga on Monday! (Surprisingly brutal.) Last weekend I went for an experimental 3:1 run/walk and found that my pace was close to 7:00/km, which is way faster than I was doing at 5:1. So that’s the plan for the race now, a 3:1 run/walk for as long as I can sustain it. I need to average 7:49/km for the first 16km or risk getting pulled from the course. Shouldn’t be too hard. If anything, I’m probably a bit undertrained for this – my LSR topped out at around 15K – but that’s pretty much a reaction to how overtrained I was before the May race. My new Asics have been helping with my foot, and I plan on slathering on some anti-inflammatories before the start. My biggest worry is this back pain, and whether I’ve done enough to keep it at bay. We’ll see in less than 12 hours!

    Sept. 12: 7.67km
    Sept. 14: 5.4km
    Sept. 17: 5.45km
    Total this week: 18.52km (11.5mi)
    Total in 2010: 692.72km (433mi)

    To meet my goal of running 1000km in 2010, I should be at 711.5km. That leaves me about 19km behind schedule. I should make a big dent in that this week though. 🙂

  • Blast from the past…

    You like me because I’m a scoundrel…
    Oh WOW! Today Distracted by Star Wars embedded the song “Scoundrel” by the band Twin Sister. They were a Star Wars-inspired funk band (yes, really) that performed SW-related song in full costume. (Their original name was “Boba Fett,” but Lucas made them change it.) I actually saw them perform in the summer of 1996! I went to the Cornerstone Festival (which, as you might imagine, is a story unto itself) and they were performing in one of the smaller side tents. I remember them playing “Scoundrel,” a song “about racism” called “We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here,” a song about Cloud City, etc. I loved them so much I bought their cassette and played the heck out of it for a year. Then I lost it. A few years later, I actually found it at an ex-boyfriend’s place and the bastard had TAPED OVER IT. So I haven’t heard any of these songs in over eleven years…

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @Opheli8: Happy Birthday @DDsD!

    A friend is looking for a solid web dev for a job w/ eco-related company. Willing to pay! Anybody got a recommendation?

    Knitters: anybody know what the hours are for the button shop in the Rocks?

    Listening to Matthew Sweet still makes me feel like I’m 18.

    RT @Opheli8: @web_goddess We can see you! http://twitpic.com/2p6mkp // I made a pig!

    RT @Opheli8: OMG Party Pig! Made by @web_goddess: http://twitpic.com/2p6o4n

    @pwadams I think my friend would prefer to work with someone local. But thanks!

    @DianneKing Yeah, in Nurses Walk. Not as big as Newtown’s, but still good. Pricey. No website though!

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Girard is cleaning his desk – it’s his last day! – and unearthing specs from the dawn of time! (I didn’t write that one, for the record.)

    Listening to Matthew Sweet still makes me feel like I’m 18.

    Girard and the Party Pig I made him. It’s like 1962 in here!

    The pig looks even cooler wearing the office sunglasses.

    Awww. They say it does nothing. 🙁

  • The REAL Hero

    The TIE Fighter Pilot Who Saved the Day in Star Wars. That’s totally right! That guy cost them the whole Empire!

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