This week was nuts. Very glad it’s concluded. While the first week that my boss was away was pretty much non-eventful, this last week? Not so much. I can say it was one of those ‘I Really Learned a Lot’ weeks and even better, we all managed to keep things going well.
And that’s all I need to say about that.
As for this weekend, I met up with Larry after work on Friday afternoon and he was going to go for a run around Central Park because he needed to get some running in as he was signed up to do the NYC Half-Marathon today. He invited me to join him on his run, and I agreed. I have posted a map of Central Park here so you can kind of see what I was up against.
Larry has told me that basically the loop below, that has multiple colors tracing it in the picture, is about 6 miles exactly (I know, the words ‘about’ and ‘exactly’ cancel each other out – it’s my blog so back off). I am comfortable with about 3 miles for a run, and that is on a treadmill. Lately I just haven’t had the chance, desire, or opportunity to really run a long distance out without treadmill assistance. So I guaranteed to Larry I could make it (probably) at least 3 miles. But after that, it’s anybody’s guess. So in the map, we started where the blue line starts on the right-hand side of the map, somewhere near the Boat House. And then proceeded to run counter-clockwise on that long blue path….and that’s a long fucking park. I managed to do pretty good all things considered. There’s this one part that Larry termed the Fuck You Hill (I think so…), and it’s a well-earned name. It’s a seemingly nonstop run up this seemingly nonstop rising hill….and I actually made it to the top without stopping, but I REALLY wanted to. It was about the 4 mile mark though where I really started just getting tired and sore, and as you can see on the map (which was found to be at the 4.4 mile mark), you’ll see the blue line stop. Alas, that is where I stopped my run. I just couldn’t go any more. I could tell Larry wanted to keep going though (he actually runs around the Park TWICE in a normal run – uh…psycho), so I said I’d meet him back at where we started, so I walked the dotted orange line back and he continued running, I assume, on the green path below.
Needless to say, that was a fun, but tiring experience.
On Saturday, we went to see the X-Files movie….kinda disappointing, but it was great just to see Mulder and Scully together again and to get little hints in the movie that gave the long-term addicts something to be satiated with in terms of what has happened to them in the meantime since the end of the show. The theater wasn’t al that great, and the movie actually stopped in the middle of the show as the reel must have fallen off the projector or something. Who knows? but nearby that area where we saw the movie (down on 61st and 1st Ave), there’s that awesome furniture/home decor store called Conran’s which has AWESOME stuff. Very cool, urban styles and if I ever have a place of my own again, I’d definitely go back there to pick some stuff up. It would help to have won the lottery, but that’s a side matter.
And now I’m back home….and jsut concluded watching all of 30 Rock’s Season 1 episodes as I picked up the DVDs last week. I can not believe I’ve been missing out on this show since it has been on. It is hilarious. And very surreal as I see many of the places that I actually work and walk around in. Very cool. But beyond the recognition factor, the show is just absolutely hilarious. Now I have to catch up on Season 2 via the Hulu site so I’m ready for the upcoming season. Yay – a funny (and intentionally so) NBC show!!!!!
Okay, it’s time for me to get my pizza.