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Life as a camel
In my readings about running a marathon, there is a lot of talk about being well hydrated which makes a lot of sense. I've always had problems remaining well hydrated as I just don't like to drink water all that much. So, I've started getting myself to drink a lot of water. I bought a 2 liter container at Wal-Mart ($2.77), fill it up everyday and pretty much drink the entire 2 liters throughout the day. That's a half gallon of water! In addition, what I've read says to eat pretzels or something else salty to retain water and replenish the sodium lost in exercising. As I don't have high blood pressure, I've been doing this and must say that it's getting much easier to consume large amounts of water. Now as long as I don't have to run to the bathroom every 30 minutes, I'll be fine.
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Nice work Sprint (again)
I received notification that my bill was ready for my Sprint PCS account, so I went to take a look to make sure it was accurate. I logged in, clicked invoices and got nothing. Tried 2 browsers and it turns out that the invoice page points to www.sprint.comnull. Yes, that's right it points me to an invalid domain. Should I be surprised that no one at Sprint saw this yet and made the simple fix? It just makes me laugh when major companies have screwed up websites; they must have scores of people working on them, but apparently no one checking them close enough. If the goal is to reduce phone calls and drive people to your website, your website better work.
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I love programming
It must be a good day in my world as I can say that I really enjoy what I'm working on right now. I'm working on some brand new code where I pretty much get to make all the decisions and there are no outside dependencies. Almost every project I've ever worked on has relied on something, starting with NotifyMail required server configuration, to my handheld work that required code to work with third parties that I can't control. Having full control over my code (with the exception of maybe Apple bugs which I haven't encountered any with my current stuff) makes it so much more enjoyable to do my job. While there are still tricky parts to my code, they can be solved without too much effort. This isn't to say what I'm doing is easy (I still code in my sleep). I'm sure I'll move on to something that I can't control real soon, but for now I'm going to enjoy what I'm doing.
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Obsessed with weather
Now that I'm running regularly, I am checking the weather a few times a day to see the forecast. I don't like running in the rain and am not all that fond of the cold. I lived in Portland, OR for a year and ran there sometimes; it was miserable. So, I keep crossing my fingers that it doesn't rain when I have to run. This just happens to be the time of year that it rains in San Diego, so it is kind of hit or miss at least for a few more weeks, I hope. I've run on a treadmill at the gym, but frankly that sucks. It's boring, there are smelly people around, there is no wind blowing on my face and the TVs show something that I don't care about. Yesterday I was quite lucky in that the forecast called for rain, but it cleared up around 9 am and stayed clear until about 7 pm when it poured for a little bit. I'm spoiled to live in San Diego.