I'm a putz

There are a few homeless folks who hang out in Holliday Park across from work during the day. I've been talking to one of them - Echo, for a few months now. When I go on jogs she always asks how far I'm planning on going and on my way back she asks how far I went. She's pretty cool and gets excited if I go over 4 miles.

So today I walk out and she asks "How far?" And I go "Oh, just 3 miles, it's f****** cold out." Who says that to someone who is outside all the time? I shoulda made it more clear I'm a putz and finish with "But then I'm going inside my comfy heated work and have a hot cocoa."

Calling Customer Service

Whenever I call customer service I hate having to deal with "press 8 to...." or whatever. I'd rather just talk to a person. Here is a cheat sheet that you can use to get to a human on the phone quickly.

Halloween Pictures

May got me a copy of pictures from her camera from halloween. Here is the cool chick in her Batman inspired outfit.

Running

I've been thinking that it'd be cool to have a thing to map my runs and maybe keep a log of them. So I ran across mapmyrun.com from lifehacker. It's really cool, you use googlemaps to plot you runs and it tells you your distance and calories (with your height/weight info.)

My runs are here

Geek TV

I was waiting for a compile to finish (like my excuse?) and came across this article/blog entry about geek tv. It's about online distribution and consumption of TV content. Very interesting stuff.

Halloween

Fittingly as yesterday was halloween, on my run with May I got bit by a vampire dog. (It looks much cooler in person.)

After wiping the foam from my mouth I went out with May and Aimee to the Clinton Street Pub where they were having a corn dog eating contest. May thought she'd take me down, but we both lost to some dude at the end of the bar. I was in second, but it's not horseshoes.

I'll have better pictures up when May throws a few my way, until then here is The Great Pumpkin and Daisy Duke in the dark.