The Human Experience

Recovering from being sick

Wow! I think that I am finally recovered from being sick like I have not been in a number of years.  I actually had to call in sick to work last week and spent 20 hours sleeping in one day!  I followed that up with sleeping 12 hours the next night and 10 hours the night after that.  I can not remember the last time that I was knocked down like that.

Priorities

I love having borderline insane people as an integral part of my life.  For example my roommate said to me at 11:40 this evening (after I had put in an 11 hour work day + 3 hours of driving and running errands, mind you), "you should watch 'Click'.  It's a good movie.  Get it started and I will join you when I get off the phone."  After starting some laundry and getting into my pajamas I settled in to watch the movie about midnight.  Rich joined me about 30 minutes into it.

I laughed and I even cried a little.  No big surprise.  The movie was well done and the plot reminded me somewhat of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.  BUT the point of this entire post is the fact that the movie made me THINK - Do I spend enough time with those most important to me?  Will my 50+ hours at work really pay off?  Can I really prioritize things tomorrow better than I did today?

What are your priorities?  And what are you going to do to keep your focus on them?

Coming Home

Wow it is really great to have a return flight into Chicago in the evening.  The city is absolutely beautiful all lit up from the sky.  I just got home from a wonderful long weekend in the Dallas area for my cousin's wedding.  I met lots of new people and spent some time catching up with my cousins.  It was great fun.  I even made a few new friends--See you in Chi-town Gino.

Happy Birthday Blog!

The Human Experience blog turns 2 on October 27, 2006.  Here is a link to the first post.  The podcast will celebrate its birthday on December 24th.  It has been a slow going couple of years, but I plan to keep the momentum going this time.  Your encouragement is appreciated.

Coming Soon... an interview

On the next The Human Experience I interview Chicago Marathon runners, Dave & Lauren, about preparations & training, the race and the morning after.  You will not want to miss it, so stayed tuned for that interview on the next installment of The Human Experience.

A Good Day to Die... er, I mean Run

As I stepped onto the porch this morning at 4:35 and breathed in I said, "It is a good day to die... er, I mean run". Two acquaintances of mine, Dave and Lauren, are endeavoring to run the Chicago Marathon. It is an exciting time. If the weather holds, it should be a good day to run.

As they departed at 5 I said, "Let me be the last person today to let you know that you guys are crazy, but I have a lot of respect for you".

This brings back memories of my distance running days several years ago. The longest that I can remember running though was about 10 miles with most runs being 6 or less. It also reminds me about my cousin Dirk running the New York City marathon some years ago. Who knows, I could be inspired to come out of my "semi-retirement" to run again.

As I am able, I will update with split times/finishing results. You can track your runner(s) here.

***These are the unofficial results as posted on the web***

8:26 AM Update:
Dave was through the start at 8:09:44 AM CST
Lauren was also through the start at 8:09:44 AM CST

12:44 PM Update:

Dave		Lauren
START	8:09:45 AM CST	START	8:09:45 AM CST
5K	0:30:16	5K	0:30:16
10K	0:59:45	10K	1:01:07
15K	1:27:38	15K	1:28:23
20K	1:56:26	20K	1:56:27
HALF	2:02:45	HALF	2:02:45
25K	2:27:29	25K	2:25:28
30K	2:59:32	30K	2:55:04
35K	3:37:07	35K	3:25:42
40K	4:11:17	40K	3:56:48
FINISH	4:26:21	FINISH	4:08:51

Congratulations to both of them for running in this race.

3:53 PM Update:

Places
Dave

Overall: 18176

Gender: 12167

Division: 807

Lauren

Overall: 13686

Gender: 3966

Division: 539

Look Mom I am on iTunes!

Oh boy.  This is pretty cool.  I have been added to iTunes.

And just in case you can not find me by searching - I guess that I do not show up in the search results yet - here is the direct link - http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=202242942

Check it out!  The Human Experience looks nice in iTunes.

Better update this...

since I am giving out this blog address lately.  Hello to everyone.  I will be trying to update this now and hopefully get a new podcast up soon.