So today I convinced some coworkers to try this new rotisserie chicken place that went in nearby. Although the food wasn’t horrible, we’ve decided never to return… and that Peru had earned some negative publicity from the event:

• Strike 1 - The peruvian pan flute mafia. How else can you explain how they have a crew running in every major city?
• Strike 2 - The apparent total lack of salt in Peru. I read the article they had posted on the wall. The chicken is rubbed with spices and lemons, marinated in wine and stuff for 24 hours, rubbed with spices again, then rotisseried for quite a while… and ALL WITHOUT ANY HINT OF SALT.

Ugh. Having to drive around a crappy rental car while the mine gets fixed really blows.

So my running had been going well. I had started over from scratch and was slowly building up my speed and distance. By starting over from scratch I really mean from scratch. I’m focusing a lot more on running a better pace this time too because when I run faster than a 15 minute mile I’m actually more in a running stance instead of a walking/jogging stance… and it uses my upper leg muscles more than the lower leg muscles (where I’d been having a lot of problems).

I play World of Warcraft. My goofy little casual guild is doing fairly well. Some coworkers and friends were in an adequate 40 man raid guild at the time BC came out and seeing the writing on the wall, as well as being tired of all the immature just-past-puberty teens in that guild, we decided to break off and go our own way. We slowly built up a truly casual raid guild from scratch and now have a solid core of adult raiders. We’re almost done with TK and are half-way through with SSC.

Not bad.

A NH resident overheard this morning on the radio: “I really don’t like this new voting schedule. There just isn’t enough time between Iowa and us for us to get some quality face time with the candidates. You know like one on one or small group environments with no more than 100 participants. Instead we’re having to do things like watch TV debates and read the newspapers.”

WTF. Those self-important turds. You mean NH is pissed because they’re a little more LIKE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY?

We recently started getting the paper (in the interest of satisfying those of you, such as my wife, who cannot allow for any kind of deviation in duration indicated by words like “recently” I will specify: about 6 months. If you take 6 months and compare it to the length of my wife without a paper then in that context, at least in my head, 6 months is “recently”. In case anyone is wondering, the other main phrase that causes similar grief is “the other day”).

I caught the flu. I’m almost through with it, but it derailed my new running plan by a little. It shouldn’t be a problem though, after all… I have left myself more than enough time to finish the training. KT and I had gone to NY for the holidays and we did great there. No major weather woes, no health problems… everything went smooth. Two days after I get back though I come down with symptoms. KT too. I’m thinking it was someone on the plane.