Never a dull moment...

I woke up this morning and continued documenting all my online user names and passwords. The list grew from 165 yesterday to 180 and counting.

Along the way, I got a tweet from @kelownagurl telling me that she uses some software called LastPass to organize all her user names and passwords. It's FREE software and I tried it out. In one word, it's "AWESOME".

The software keeps track of all your user names and passwords for every site you belong to and when you need to go to one of those sites, it automatically logs you in. It is one "sweet" piece of time saving software.

Eventually, I had to push back from the computer and go out for a run. The NYC Marathon is next Sunday and I need to "cram" in some training. Today I did a 2 hour long run and it was my third day in a row of running.

I'm not training to race fast, I'm training to finish without injury. I'd rather show up a little beat up from training too much, than with less training and more susceptible to injury. The worst thing someone can do is show up and do a marathon un-prepared, it's a recipe for disaster. Nothing causes injuries like running.

All things considered, it was a successful run. The highlights were I didn't injure myself and my current injury didn't get overly worse, it went from a 2-on-10 to a 3-on-10. It was also a very slow run, I had to stop and walk a number of times in order to keep my heart rate under 143 bpm. The best part was my muscles weren't at all sore afterwards.

At the 12 km mark during the run I started having some shooting pain around the side of my left knee. It was acute and painful at first and then it eventually went away. It was a similar style sensation you get when your foot falls asleep. That's another reason I train, I don't want to have that happen next Sunday.

I got home just in time to stretch, shower and almost eat before the Nolan's arrived for a pre-party visit. One of Julia's friends lives in Burlington and has a Halloween party they go to every year.

As I was coming out of the shower Alice and Reid were starting to mop up a huge amount of water coming from the laundry room. It turns out the washing machine broke and was overflowing with water.

It wasn't little like "the BP oil spill". It was all over the place and went through the floor and it was "raining" downstairs in the storage area underneath. Reid went downstairs and was pulling out all the stuff in storage that was getting wet. I looked inside the storage room doors and it looked like a rain forest inside, water dripping everywhere.

Alice's blood sugar was getting low and I was trying to help by mopping the floors up with towels everywhere. I finally got to use all my Ironman finishers towels for something. All this was going on as Al and family was to arrive and I hadn't even eaten dinner yet. I had a bowl of soup sitting on the kitchen table.

Just as we finished, the doorbell rang and it was the Nolan clan. Shortly thereafter, Jamie and Barb showed up. We had a full house in the man cave, it was all fun and lots of laughs. As my largest contributor to the TPPF, Al was also allowed unlimited pulls on the Kegerator handle.

I haven't seen Al since the House of Payne Beer run and since that time he's been working out at a local morning "boot camp". Al's looking great, he's down noticeable weight and now actually has muscles. When Al and I gave each other our customary "ass grab hug", I couldn't believe the firmness of his butt cheeks, not to mention his rock solid arms and FIRM hands.

Al's plan is to join the P.F.G. Triathlon Club. He's committed to doing a triathlon next year and is not sure if it will be an Olympic or a Half Ironman Distance race. I told him to "go for the half and I'll do it with you side by side the entire distance".

My recommendation is very self-serving, I want to be Ironman Al's "manager" and pit him against Matty-O during next years Payne-a-poolza trampoline fight, and hopefully he'll be able to return "the peoples-elbow" to Tank-O. I learnt my lesson after this years fight, I'm too small and weak to return the favour.

After the Nolan Clan left, Jamie, Barb, Alice and I sat around the bar and "chuckled it up". My biggest take away is I've come to realize my perfect career would be hanging around the "Pig and Whistle". Inside joke. I found part of an episode on You Tube and posted it below. I was actually thinking of now calling the Man Cave, "The Pig and Whistle" and maybe get a little red vest.

After everyone was gone it was just Alice and I and she came up with a great saying, "It's not where you are, it's who you're with". I told her it was almost as good as the one I came up with last weekend, "Live yourself to death". She then proceed to tell me SHE also came up with that one too. Damn, I thought that was all mine.

By the time I was ready for bed and I finally re-heated the bowl of soup on the kitchen table and had my dinner at 2 am. Alice saved me from myself by telling me we didn't have any little Halloween candy. I'm glad she lied.

Long Run - 2:03:12 / 22.2 km / 5:32 per km avg / 141 avg hr

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