Jamming and Running

OK, short one this time I promise!

Last Saturday night I went into town with a bunch of new friends. Had an absolutely fantastic night with Sarah, Charlene and Emanual. Emanual is moving to Vancouver from Kelowna an a couple of months. I had a real good yarn and we hit it off pretty well. He enjoys all sort of outdoor activities and especially likes paragliding which is cool. So hopefully I have an activities mate when summer rolls around. He also like backcountry trail biking so now I am trying my best not to get my hopes up for a bike to wing its way across the Pacific to me!

My boss was away again this week (conference in Vegas, what an awful place to hold a conference!) so work was more of me trying to convince everyone I knew what I was doing without someone to fall back on for tricky questions. Got a big basis of design report done though so that was pretty fun.

On Friday night I had another Jam with Brice and Travis. This time another guy, Steve (what kind of a rapping name is that), came along and played a much better bass guitar than me. I played acoustic rhythm which suited me just fine and did a bit of singing. Godamn its so much fun. I found out the space we rented was $75 for 3 hours which included a bass amp and a drum kit. Pretty damn good rate I reckon.

Today is a lovely sunny Sunday and I am writing this after a bit of a run. I didn't run to work this week much for varying reasons so embarked on an exploratory mission. I ran to Central park and zig zagged my way across it a couple of times. I found a model boat club at a small lake and had a yarn to a guy there. Then I zig zagged my way around the park a bit more. There were some really nice trails and with my headphones in to cut out the background noise I could have sworn I was on a trail outside the city at times. I also found a couple of side track so I decided to see where they led. The tracks were pretty overgrown but someone had clearly but stepping stones across streams and bogs so I kept going until I happened upon some hobos camp! This happened twice! After I found my way out of the park I decided I needed a bit of an extension as I was only at about 34min. So I set off east along the skytrain path. At about an hour I made it to Edmonds Skytrain station and then headed for home. As I turned around I found I had a pretty stiff headwind all the way home so that gave me a pretty good workout. just got back at about 1:45. Felt pretty good, I don't think all of the 3kms to and from work has diminished my medium distance too much which is good. I'll have to find another half marathon to sign up to here I think to get those ks back up now that it coming into summer.