Another Busy Week...

So, last week I completed a marathon, flew to San Francisco, and spent time with the girls. This week promises to be just as busy. After enjoying a calm day today (changed oil in Kia, vaccumed, cut my hair), I will travel for work the next three days then fly to Pennsylvania on Friday. Sounds like they will keep me busy up there (sorry Dad, not going to the TSO concert!!), then I will fly back Tuesday, participate in a conference call, and drive up to Vienna that evening for Thanksgiving. Phew!

Gutsy Gibbon Takes The Scene

Ok, you may not expect this, given my new Red Hat wardrobe (thanks to Kerry's cousin Kiely and her husband), but I am a huge Ubuntu Linux user. Gutsy Gibbon just recently came out (version 7.10) and I finally upgraded our personal laptop. Unfortunately, I still had some Windows crud on it, so I decided to totally wipe the hard drive and reinstall 7.10 with an iso disk. This worked fine, and the new work put into having the machine recognize the video card came off without a hitch this time. I did struggle with the dumb Broadcom 4328 wireless card once again, but I just got that working yesterday with ndiswrapper and a well timed update on the ubuntu forums. Now I am enjoying the beauty of the Compiz Fusion effects. Pretty sweet! Will update this XPS machine soon. That's the beauty of Linux and the Open Source movement--you can do things in your own time and things will still work. Try that with upgrading one machine to Vista and keeping the rest at XP. Do you think that would happen?

Back From San Fran--And Brought My Heart Home!

Well, I am not sure I even took it--I missed my girls pretty much! (-: I did enjoy myself. San Francisco is a neat city with tons to do. The last evening I rode the cable cars down to Fisherman's Wharf, saw Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, and just hung out. Then I rode back and did some shopping in Union Square. How great to have all of those stores right there, all within walking distance. I really thought that if we were single, we may be living out there--how great to not need a car--everything would be within walking distance.
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The flights home were booked, so I did not totally enjoy that, but everything, except that little turbulence over Utah, went smoothly. We were delayed in Charlotte for a little while, but I made it back to Raleigh and back in the arms of my 3 girls! (0:

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Now I look forward to flying up to PA on Friday to visit with everyone up there. Just a small little puddlejumper of a plane, so look out! (-:

A Few More From Halloween and the Marathon...

My Cheerleaders...




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And a little bit of rest...




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Doctor Mommy, Dora Lucy, Strawberry Myra, and Hockey Player Daddy

City of Oaks Marathon--FINISHED!

Woohooo!! The marathon is over, I finished, and actually have a new PR of 4 hours, 50 minutes. It was a tough tough run though, while I knew the 2nd half would be, the first part, coming back from Raleigh kicked by butt. I did not expect all the hills along Clark. But I finished, so yeah to me!
Now I head to San Francisco tomorrow morning for a few days. Whirlwind November continues!

Christmas Music Time!

I will post some Halloween pics soon, but it's CHRISTMAS MUSIC TIME!