I’ve started to play tennis, not a bad sport. I bought a tennis racket a couple of years ago in hopes of playing a bit, but engineering doesn’t always give you much spare time… But now with summer here… Tonight was my third time messing around, getting better slowly but surely. So if you play, come and grab me and teach me a few things!
I signed up for the Wharf to Wharf race a while ago, and was getting slightly worried that I would do horrible… My last longer race was a 12K, and I was getting passed by strollers and women in their 90s. Needless to say it was bad. My knee had been bothering me a bit, so I got some new shoes in hopes that would help and stretched tons before the race. I was happy in the end, I didn’t do as good as I did the race last year, but all things considered it was a good run. No strollers cruising past me is a good sign!
Internet Explorer once again reaches out it’s talons to irk me. Web design would be much simpler if Microsoft were to disappear…
I always have enjoyed going to campmeeting, and this is my 20th I’ve been able to go to. It is fun to see friends you never get to see otherwise and to meet new people too. I’ll be up there this next weekend too, looking forward to then as well, but for now I’ve got lots to do this week…
I find it just so hard not to believe in God, something so huge and powerful… I look around me and see things so huge, so complex; my mind is boggled. There is so much beauty in the world, the mountains, forests, animals, ocean, and even more abstract things like friendship, kindness… But all of these things are not perfect, things so close to perfection it seems, yet not perfection itself. Hanging out in nature is just amazing, sensing life all around in color, smell, and feeling. If looked at closely though, there is disease and decay. A close look at even the nicest of people too reveals character flaws. It seems to me that there must be a perfect counterpart to all of this, a perfection to be found somewhere. Just like the discovery of antimatter, the opposite of matter that we see all around us, there must be an opposite to that which this world seems to provide. There must be a heaven, and a God, both totally perfect. It is a hard concept to grasp, total perfection. Yet just like it is hard to wrap my mind around there being a counterpart to the matter that makes up everything I know, it is also hard to wrap my mind around a perfect God and a heaven he created. It starts to make sense though when looking at the whole picture… I like it.
I found an interesting surprise in this one…
I’m pretty bushed after this 5k I ran today. It has been awhile since I’ve done one of these, so I wanted to just go for it. It was called Hernia Hill. It is not exactly the most fun of all races, but it was alright. My time was 21:13, a 6:49 min/mile pace, I’m satisfied for how hard it was….
Yeah, today I tore loose my alternator, with wrenches of course! It is time for a new one, and none too soon. I have to get my Jeep smogged and registered before the end of the month. It will be much fun to drive, lots to do to it, but still fun…
