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Running updates

I ended up doing 123:17 in the half-marathon, which is about 60 minutes faster than I thought I’d be. I’ve been ‘recovering’ for the 6 weeks since. Maybe three of these weeks were actually necessary since I had tendonitis in one foot and something horribly clacky in one knee.

I’ve signed up for the city to surf in five weeks (10th August), so I really need to get back into it in a huge way. Soul isn’t sponsoring it this year but I might be able to get into a marquee courtesy of my bud Bel.

Then I’ve got the Blackmores half marathon on the 21st September.

It’ll be huge.

Posted 9:42 AM 1 Jul 08 to Personal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


I'm hunting wabbits..

…that’s why it’s vewy vewy quiet…

But I have managed to get this site’s software (Movable Type) vaguely functioning again, which has to increase my posting frequency on the grounds that it’s now possible to do so..

Posted 7:57 PM 10 Jun 08 to Personal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


SMH Half-Marathon

Just entered. Not cheap at $75 but it’ll be a good motivator to actually get up and go for a run occasionally.

(Hey, I finally fast-cgi’d Movable Type. Hopefully it’s faster and not broken..)

Posted 10:22 AM 3 Mar 08 to | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


Meh!

Oh look, it’s January. And I’m back at work. Isn’t it time for me to retire yet?

As I said, meh!

On a completely unrelated note, Kottke linked to this NYT article on eating.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Or as I’ve thought for a while:

Only eat stuff that goes off, and eat it before it does. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop when you’re not.

Despite this, I still battle my gradually slowing metabolism. Better than it stop, I suppose.

Posted 11:39 AM 15 Jan 08 to Personal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


What?

SMH sent the wrong reporter on this one.

Meanwhile a survey by CommSec found retailers have not passed on the full savings from a stronger dollar. It has risen 80 per cent over the past six years, but prices of imported goods have only fallen 20 per cent.

Um, no. I’m sure the facts are true, but..apples and oranges people!

Posted 12:47 PM 4 Dec 07 to Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


The Parliamentary Destruction of the Democrats

Says Andrew Barlett, outgoing Democrat Senator for QLD:

It is disappointing that Queensland is now likely to have no Senator outside the major parties, and thus no voice in balance of power situations (nor will New South Wales for that matter, as the Greens have almost certainly lost their Senate seat there). However, that’s what the voters chose.

For people who are keen to see a growth in the parliamentary strength of parties committed to the environment, human rights and social justice, it is worth noting that in 1999 there were 9 Democrat and 2 Greens in the Senate. After this election, it looks like there will be at most 6 Greens – more likely 5 – and no Democrats in the Senate. Not a terribly good net result.

Amen to that. I’m happy about the election result over-all, but the Senate results are bad for democracy.

Posted 5:02 PM 27 Nov 07 to Politics & Law | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


Coalition narratives of the election

Why do I keep hearing this kind of thing from defeated Liberal MPs?

[Former Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough] would not engage in any analysis of his defeat. “It just shows you they may like what you do, they may respect what you do, but that doesn’t mean they will vote for you.”

Or maybe they didn’t like what you do, or respect it.

Just so you don’t think I’m picking on them unfairly, let me mention that a newspaper article on Saturday recalled Keating’s bewilderment that people living in fibro shacks in the Blue Mountains would vote Liberal. I can’t find the quote but I do recall the words ‘I mean, what are they thinking?’.

Let us hope they will soon work out that they’ve gone too far to the right, and will return wherefrom. (It’s a word, look it up.)

If I never again hear refugees called ‘illegals’, or see a public servant given an award for keeping their mouth shut at the appropriate time, I’ll be a happy camper.

Posted 1:00 PM 26 Nov 07 to Politics & Law | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)