No Winterlude this Weekend

I was supposed go to Winterlude in Ottawa this past weekend but decided that the budget couldn't take the hit right now. So I stayed in town and yesterday worked on a court motion (a little hobby of mine) and fixed my Mum's missing emails situation (she gave me her hard drive and said go to town with it) - 4 hours on that one but hey it's for my Mum right??

I ran 9km today and actually felt pretty good. I was running at a very slow pace. I picked up this group of running partners to run with at the running clinic but I think their pace is slower than mine. It's been so long since I've run that distance, I've forgotten what it should feel like.

It's like the inverted U theory of stress - that states too little or too much stress is not good for you....well too slow or too fast a pace is the same. Just over the half way mark, one of our clinic instructors came back for us. She started to pick up the pace so I just ran with her and felt amazingly good - better than at the slower pace.

I've picked up more responsibility at work - the kind of stuff where you want to poke your eye out because you're so bored - sorry to the accounting profession out there. I guess they thought that because I love legal documents this wouldn't be too far of a stretch....they would be wrong about that one. Now I have to hold master control docs, police everyone and put the hammer down - ya that's tons of fun.

Well luckily I really do enjoy what I'm doing right now. Hopefully we hold out in this economy.

So this upcoming week my goals are to finalize the plans for the Tanzania trip in July/August, get the permits process started for my condo mezzanine and of course play soccer and do my scheduled runs.

The Sh*t Hit the Fan

Happy Belated Valentine's Day to All,

I hope everyone is doing well out there in cyberland.
I've been have a great time lately training for the Ottawa Half Marathon with my running partner - locally and over bandwidth with my other partner in Ottawa.
I did however, slightly pull my groin last Tuesday in a soccer tustle for the ball....I got it and made a spectacular play (hey if you don't pat yourself on the back who will) but suffered in the end. I feel much better now and actually was able to do 4km on Thursday.

My work on the other hand a set of different tense moments lately. Ok so I finally went to the boss and told her about the pot situation.....hmmmm.....shortly after that I was called into the big man's office (ya the CEO) and questioned about it. Ok so everything's cool on my end but let's just say we could have one or more people subtracted from our payroll sooner than later.

The big man actually even suggested we send in the police to investigate....oh I neglected to mention exactly "how much" pot I suspected was there. You know when you go get your freshly ground coffee in that sealed bag - what is it about a kilo?....'nuff said.

Are mandatory drug tests legal? We'll find out soon.

I have to head off to la la land now cause I have my slow long run tomorrow.

I promise to add some more stuff later this week.