The Adventures of Cowboy Hazel

It has come to my attention that I haven’t posted anything up here for almost two weeks. How come? Well, a couple reasons. First off, I’ve been busy. But I’m always busy so I guess that’s not really a good excuse. A better one is that I’ve really been trying to limit the amount of non-work time that I’m spending at the computer lately. Unfortunately, I am forced to spend like 80% of my life working in front of this computer screen, so I’m making a conscious effort to not spend the remaining 20% here as well. That means I’ve been writing up here less and reading less of your all’s blogs out there in blogland. Don’t take it personal. Finally, I just haven’t had a hell of a lot to blog about lately. My running has been mediocre and unexciting. Same goes for my whole non-running life. There have been some big work-related decisions/changes, but until everything’s set in stone, I don’t really want to talk about them up here. I guess that’s part of it too — A lot of the shit that’s been chewing on my mind lately is not really stuff that I want to share with the world. I mean, it’s just so tough to write when you know that anybody (think about that… anybody) could stop by.

Well, I have the next 4 days off, so I might write something else up here then. I’m planning on doing a bunch of work on my network of sites and hope to make some good progress on the new running log I have in the works (be excited, folks, it’s gonna be good). So maybe I’ll have some news about that. For now, let me leave you with a couple links:

http://twitter.com/cowboyhazel — The whole 140 characters or less thing is more my style lately.

http://www.coolnessquiz.com/ — I relaunched one of my favorite old sites. It’s completely pointless, but can provide a couple minutes of entertainment. Give it a whirl…

I haven’t been much in the writing mood lately. I’m still not. So, this is gonna be short. I just thought I’d throw a quick recap of my goings-on lately in case anyone out there is interested.

~ I finished the week with 36.7 miles at an average pace of 6:56/mile. I feel like the increase in speed more than makes up for the light mileage. The only disappointment running-wise came late in today’s 13 miler when I bonked and couldn’t keep up with Antonio. I still finished the run, though, at a respectable 7:06 pace.

~ About two hours after that, I had my first football game since high school. It was fun. We lost, though, which sucked, but it was a scrimmage so it doesn’t really matter. I only had the ball thrown to me once, but I caught it and was happy about not fucking up the play.

~ We went to some dive bar after the game and drank a bunch of beers. That was weird — drinking at 2:00 in the afternoon. Brought back memories of college (or Boston.)

~ Work’s good. Busy as always. I’m moving hosts (again) on all of my own sites so I’ll be busy working on that tomorrow.

~ One of my best friends from back home drove down (from Westchester — not back home) on Thursday and I made dinner. It was a good time but I forgot to put the onion in the risotto so it was pretty bland.

~ I bought a new bottle of Johnny Walker today. I love that stuff. And I have no idea how I went so long without knowing that I liked it.

~ Pasta’s almost done. Let me go eat. Have a good weekend!