With the best of intentions

Despite my intentions to the contrary I find myself again in the unwanted place of not having updated this place in sometime. I am sure the angry hordes of loyal readers are anxious to know the inner details of my life since we last checked in so here goes my best attempt at filling in the last month or so. I did alot of stuff. And for the most part I enjoyed doing that stuff.

Call me boring or incapable of imaginative description or more truly just lazy but I haven't found the energy write much lately and that trend shall continue today. On my part I do come armed with an excuse for this lack of description, just like Forrest Gump I have spent a great deal of time running lately. Some months ago I set a goal which I never would have considered so difficult or life consuming, to run a marathon before I was 30 and if at all possible do it this summer at the end of September. As any normal person might imagine this takes a good deal of effort and willpower and occassionally a wife that elbows you awake in the morning. The good news is that I am almost done and have been somewhat successful in my training. The bad news is that it sucked up most of my time during one of the more enjoyable times of the year to be in the city. So many free activities missed or passed by while I planned my weekends and mornings around the dreaded 'long runs.' Come this September 27th I hope it all pays off and I am able to finish and if not then I will scratch the marathon from my bucket list forever.


I did want to highlight a couple particularly awesome events that I was able to attend this summer. The city and parks put on some fantastic free events throughout the season, encouraging everyone to fill up parks and boat basins and occasionally car free streets with partying and celebration of whatever form may please you. After a couple weeks of pleading Shelby was able to convince this lazy bum (not my words) to head over to Riverside for a free movie in the park.

At 70th there is a pier stretching into the Hudson normally filled with joggers or yogaist or some sort of free entertainment. Once a week this summer they filled the pier with chairs and blasted an election themed movie over speakers loud enough to hear far down the river. After being reminded why I hate John Travolta (Primary Colors) we came back the next week to enjoy some movie about Watergate. The next week we watched August Rush in Central Park. This may be my geek side but I absolutely loved that movie and seeing the conclusion as the characters race together in Central Park in the movie location was a cool thing indeed.