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I've been noticing several requests for us to add OneNote to our Mac product portfolio. I have some questions for those of you who want OneNote. Tell me how you have used OneNote. Where is it especially useful? How would you compare it to the Notebook Layout View in Word:Mac 2004? Be as explicit and detailed as possible!
I should say that, as a non-Windows user, I've never used it myself and have no personal opinion about it. I've heard good things about it from both Windows and Mac users, though, so I'm curious.
(revised from my comment on Dan Escapa's blog):
Spreading OneNote's reach would be a good thing! Its a great program; discovering it was the second reason (after TabletPC devices themselves; I have a Motion LE1600) that led me back to Windows after 13 years with a Mac on my desk at work. I'm in the middle of the transition so emotionally I'm still very fragile, rationally I'm manic. I keep wondering if this is all part of the characteristic mid-life crisis, only I'm not divorcing, buying a sports car, or dating girls half my age...
Anyway! Other than supporting any and all efforts to port OneNote to Mac, I wanted to point out a small thing that defies explanation in my usage of OneNote 2007. When using the 'Send to OneNote' PowerToy in Internet Explorer 7, why does all the text lose its line feeds/carriage returns (not sure which)? Paragraphs run together and make a mess of imported text. The same thing happened in OneNote 2003. Is there a reason this behaviour continues, some technical reason why it cannot be corrected/improved? Is anyone else also experiencing this?
The Mac is a consumer product that, with time, effort, and money can exist in a business environment, whereas Windows is a business product, first and foremost. Its a fact that Enterprise business influences Microsoft's OS decisions more than any other factor; Home computer usage influences Apple's OS decisions more than any other factor.
The ModBook (from http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook) looks soooo cool. But given my experience with Tiger's and Panther's Handwriting Recognition, I wonder if Axiotron added any improvements to make it more robust - in the same way Microsoft added the features collected together in the TIP for Vista and WinXP TabletPC Edition? Some further handrails are necessary.
Whatever the case may be, its the first step in what I hope turns out to be a successful product roadmap - it has the potential to make so many inroads into previously uncharted territory for the Mac, not the least of which is the Business Enterprise, which OneNote for Mac could also help precipitate.
Microsoft's strategy is all about Collaboration, yet effective use of a Mac in a Windows-based office's 'collaborative workflow' is very poor. Until Mac users have Outlook, Groove, and OneNote its way too much trouble. I know, I've been trying; using Parallels takes me closer but the overhead is just too much work. By overhead I don't mean the speed and memory required for the Mac to operate well with both OSes; rather, Mac users coping with two file systems is, itself, sufficient to make this unworkable for anyone but the most committed Mac user - no one else would put up with all the crap! Also, IT departments are faced with the lack of Mac client backup support on Microsoft's Servers (eg: Small Business Server). Though the Windows profile participates in the backup schedule just as it would if it weren't running under virtualization on a Mac, a separate backup solution must be provided for the Mac. There are further workflow problems: text formatting/styling between Word for Windows and Quark for Mac; Tasks synched to Exchange are unsupported in Entourage 2004; Windows-to-Mac image conversion in Powerpoint and Word 2004 for Mac is inconsistent at best; PDF conversion of Word/Powerpoint files doesn't maintain embedded URLs. On and on; death by a thousnad paper cuts.
Assimilation is the overarching strategy and I can see no other course unless the business has loads of money to throw at the workflow problems but even if they do, it would only work if the Mac users were sufficiently committed to making the effort themselves to overcome the problems - money isn't the answer, unfortunately. This means, sadly, that businesses generally won't buy a Mac over a Windows-based PC for an employee. Anyone unfamiliar with Macs will find it too much trouble in the kind of collaboration scenario I indicated earlier. Its trouble enough getting it to work in a Windows-only environment, for Pete's sake!
Cracking the business market is very hard for Apple but if there was feature parity between Mac and Windows versions of Outlook and other Office collaboration applications, things would be much easier.
For this to happen, given Microsoft's strategies, small steps will be the only hope we have, like pressing for a Mac port of OneNote. But that won't be enough - Outlook and Groove will be necessary, the rest of the Office suite would be great.
However, I'm not going to live long enough to see it (I'm not even 40!). I'm interested in making my job easier, not harder; the older I get, the clearer it becomes that the world I dream about will not come in my lifetime, so assimilation it is! Rather than stand by and wait, I've had to step in and use the tools that are available to make my own and my coworker's jobs easier. But the difference between us is, I get to go home to my Macs! I can catch glimpses of a better world in the midst of all the crap; but what do my coworkers see, if they glimpse anything? If they've never used a Mac, then theirs must be grim dreams, indeed! More likely, they don't think about it at all! Lucky them!
I'm sorry to have gone off on such a tangent. Yikes. I wish I could buy everyone the extra-strength Tylenol you must be reaching for now!
OneNote rocks! Macs rock!
OneNote is one of the most useful Window's apps.
Having it available on my Macs along with the ability to share them between platforms would be of great use to those who use Windows at work, Macs at home, etc.
Oh come now, OneNote lovers - it's not bad at all, in many ways quite impressive, but AquaMinds NoteTaker does most if not all of the same things (and can also be shared over the Internet, using NoteShare). Although I love the free-mapping aspects of OneNote (and the new drawing tools), I still find it a fiddly, Microsoft-typical product (like the ghastly Outlook - can't believe the enthusiasm shown here for Outlook!). There are elegant alternatives out there, people (especially you Mac users - you should be aware of them).
Please do port OneNote to the Mac! I use OneNote 2007 today via Parallels Desktop and it beats every Mac-based notes application hands down. To have the same product available, and integrated with, Office for the Mac would be awesome!
I've been using Penabled Windows computers since 2004. I stated using OneNote only this year, but before that, it was Agilix's GoBinder for the same things (mentioned at http://miniaturemage.blogspot.com/2005/01/tabletpc-agilix-gobinder-and-this.html). At work, when we reload or replace users' PCs, we have to sign checklists that detail the applications and data we back up and restore; our users must sign them, as well. In the interest of using less paper, I do these on my Tablet PC or UMPC. These can be emailed from OneNote to my management, but Macs can't read them in either of the two formats OneNote uses. As a result, I have had to jump through hoops to email these to my boss. That boss has gone on to other duties, but now I'M looking into buying a MacBook, and I'll want to have access to my OneNote files. Now, of course a Mac can't be my main machine, because it hasn't got a digitizer, but I was thinking it would replace my desktop at work. I will have to be running Parallels to get along at work, but I don't want to have to run Parallels just to use OneNote. I can't compare ON to anything currently available on the Mac, because I don't have much recent experience with Mac apps.
I'm in law school, and half my class uses OneNote. It's absolutely amazing for taking notes in class. I'm using the notebook option on Word 2004, but it just doesn't compare in terms of functionality and features. I've tried a few different Mac note-taking programs, but they all come up lacking compared to OneNote. Please make OneNote a part of the Mac Office 2008 suite!
"Oh come on now" Bill,
I've used NoteTaker for years on my Macs. I settled on it after trying out most (if not all) of the similar products. I've revisited most of those products every year to see if they're worth moving to from NoteTaker. Comparing NoteTaker to OneNote is comparing apples to oranges.
With respect to OneNote vs. anything available on the Mac, I can't agree with your claim that "There are elegant alternatives out there, people (especially you Mac users - you should be aware of them)." OneNotes differs from anything available on the Mac in two important ways: 1) OneNote's Pen-based input: its searchable even if not converted to ink; the background conversion works flawlessly; the Mac's pen-based input is so far behind Microsoft's as to be useless by comparison. 2) Collaboration: NoteTaker's notebook sharing is cool for casual users but OneNote's multi-user NoteBooks are mature business tools; unfortunately this can, in some cases, require a lot of Microsoft infrastructure (like SharePoint Services) but for more casual users, OneNote's NoteBook sharing is easily as good or better than NoteTaker's.
Its interesting that you refer to the 'fiddly' feel of OneNote since I always felt NoteTaker didn't sit well with my Mac somehow and your term (fiddly) is the best characterization I've come across. NoteTaker feels fiddly whereas DevonThink does not. NoteTaker has the feel of a badly ported app - mostly due to its UI, though, as it runs solidly.
1. Great place to store and organize information collected from the web.
2. Already used it on the PC. Now that I've switched to a Mac it would be great to have easier access to all of that information. Parallels is great, but ultimately I would prefer not to rely on it.
3. Great for storing and organizing non-web information as well. The key features to include in a version for Mac (in my opinion) are the multi-folder and multi-notebook structures.
4. Fantastic UI.
Note: I used OneNote almost daily on my PC even though I did NOT have any way to use pen input.
(an academic)
Actually, I already have it - it's called Circus Ponies NoteBook ( www.circusponies.com ). NoteBook was originally written in 1992, and was what the "innovators" at Microsoft copied when they wrote OneNote. Not to be outdone, innovators in the MacBU took a stab at copying NoteBook when they rolled the Notebook outline view contraption into MSWord.
Thanks to Gideon for his comment above regarding Zengobi Curio. We first saw OneNote as we were wrapping up Curio version 2 and, as former Windows users, we agree that it's one of the best apps we've seen on Windows. While Curio and OneNote have different primary goals -- brainstorming vs. note-taking -- we do have a number of Curio customers who have migrated to us from OneNote when they switched to the Mac. Check it out (http://www.zengobi.com/curio/) and please let us know if you have any questions.
I'm involved in optical physics research. We use both Mac's and PC's in the lab, and we need to be able to organize our data, with various images, text, and data files all together. Notebook and OneNote both work well enough for these purposes. But obviously they are incompatible. So it would be great to have one program that I can use anywhere to organize my work.
No other software I've used is as friendly about just letting you type whereever/however you want, and organize ALL of your notes for various projects one click away. Creating separate word docs or similar just doesn't even come close to how cool and useful this is - individual docs on a harddrive become stale and lost in a way that one-note sections don't, because they are always there for review and updating.
I echo the opinion of many here who say OneNote is far and away MS best app. It's the only MS app I enthusiastically encourage other developers to check out. It and MSDEV/VStudio are the only apps I can honestly say just don't have any competition on other platforms.
I want it on my macbook because it's one of the most useful pieces of software I own (and I own a lot; I develop software for a living. I got a macbook for some cross-platform scientific-viz work, and having OneNote would rock.
Well I use Onenote on my Windows laptop and I need to have my data on my iMac too :)
It's obvious that this kind of tools, which is meant for business, should be available on both platforms
..my two cents ;)
OneNote is probably the hidden treasure of MS (lack of marketing on it?). Each person that i know who tried OneNote more than one day can't go back : they all become addicts. Why? A lot of people already explained in comments why we all love OneNote ;-)
And the only reason why people like me stop to use it is because there is no Mac version, and using a virtualization stack to run OneNote can be a little too much for mac users.
Does the lack of native onenote on Mac is enough to make people stay on Windows? I don't think so. So why not provide to us, the users and customers, what we request and are ready to pay for? Native OneNote for Mac ;-)
I tried Onenote after seeing my manager use a 6 month trial of an academic version, that he acquired, for a major project we were working on. Being curious, I did a lot of reading on it and decided to buy it for my PC.After 2 weeks of using it, I was hooked. I converted all of my PDF files (mostly with bad names, which was making the information hard to find)into nice organized notebooks. I now have 3 notebooks (about 4 gig each, multiple tabs, multiple sections) with all my notes, books, etc for my ministry/church work and research.
I have one notebook just on computer programming languages, 2 notebooks on an older platform I support at work (Mumps on OpenVms), one notebook for my Microsoft books and notes, and one for my MAC notes.
I am hooked on the product. I never used such an easy tool and it keeps everything straight. I just wish my employer wasn't so cheap and would buy it for us. I need it at work.
Lately, I am looking to switch to MAC because of iLife and graphical needs for video production at my church. Truthfully OneNote is the only product by Microsoft that I cannot live without. Most schools are requiring Macs and I know a lot of College students and artists who use MACS who love OneNote, but do not want the problems of Windows OS.
Please port OneNote to the MAC and make it compatible so that we can just drop in the .one files, so we can share files from both Windows and MAC users.


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Like any proper cruise, you can choose a type of stateroom with offers ranging from the humble sounding "standard inside" to the opulent "Hemingway suite." The similarities to any other cruise end abruptly when you begin assembling your personal armory. With offerings such as the predictably yielding "bazooka package" and a "mercenary madness" kit, you can personalize your weapons cache almost endlessly. The "mercenary madness" package includes rental of a M107 .50 caliber sniper rifle, an AR 15 assault rifle, and an 18kt gold plated Desert Eagle pistol. Bow and arrows are also available for purists. Flamethrowers can be rented as well, though require a 3 day licensing course prior to departure.
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@maverick I love the bright colors of the Cordura options of the Cafe bag, and sigh for the color options we used to have. That's the Small Cafe Bag in Crimson, isn't it? See darbs' post from a year and a half ago, :( Say it ain't so! No more Crimson SCB???. I just received a Plum/Wasabi SCB a couple of days ago -- wanted to make sure I had one of these in case they stop the Cordura production entirely.
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indeed, that is the small cafe bag in crimson/steel. it is a beautiful color! but i love the feel of the parapack fabric! i have only seen the olive in person, and while not bright like crimson, it has a beautiful sheen! and i think that is true for the other parapack fabric colors - they may look more reserved from a distance, but you get up close, and they dazzle you with the way catch light and the way they feel!
i also think it's pretty darned cool that tom bihn introduced an altogether new fabric in 4 color choices and made it available across so many of their bags at once!
Hi Maverick,
Indeed, Olive Parapack is even nicer in person than the photographs show, although my favorite is Navy - I ordered the Lead's Pocket in Navy. I do like the Parapack/Dyneema color options for the Cafe Bags, but I miss the brighter colors of Cordura. I really like the Parapack fabric with the mesh cubes, too. It does seem as though red color options have greatly diminished for bag exteriors, although Cardinal is still offered for the Aeronaut and I think there is still the last batch of Western Flyer Rolling Luggage Handle Pocket bags in Cardinal/Steel. Glad to see your spot of brightness in these photos.
Maverick Jr. is really growing up.
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Hey, I used to live near there! (Well, within a mile. More Petworth than CH but still close.)
Is that the 500d Cordura interior?
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According to a representative of Pentagon, Colonel Steve Warren, Su-27 crossed the nose of the US aircraft within 30 meters. At that Boeing RC-135 did not performed any evasive maneuvers.
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A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried to create fairer results, but the differences don't line up with the party of the president who appointed the judges, despite any impressions that Republicans or Democrats may be tougher or softer on crime.
Sentencing data from the past five years that was analyzed for The Associated Press by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse during this presidential election year show that sentences for the same types of crimes vary significantly between judges in the same courthouse. But the party of the president who picked a judge is not a good predictor of whether a judge will be tough or lenient on a defendant found guilty at trial.
The analysis showed the judges who meted out the harshest average sentences after trials for three of the most common types of crime — drugs, weapons and white-collar charges — were split evenly between the two parties, based on which president appointed them.
In the 10 court districts with the most drug case sentences after trial, Republican-appointed judges assigned stiffer average sentences in five districts, but Democratic appointees gave longer penalties in the other five. In weapons cases as well, the longest average sentences were issued by Democratic appointees in five districts and by Republican-appointed judges in the other five.
For white-collar crimes, only seven districts had at least 20 trials for judges from each party over the past five years, and the split was Democratic-appointees tougher in four and Republican ones in three.
Spurred by wide variations in sentences, Congress tried in 1984 to create more uniform outcomes with the Sentencing Reform Act. The law set up a commission that wrote guidelines for judges to follow as they punished convicts, with similar sentences for offenders with comparable criminal histories convicted of the same crimes.
But law's requirement that judges stick to these sentencing guidelines was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2005. Judges still must calculate the guidelines, with numerical values given for factors such as the seriousness of the offense and the defendant's criminal record. But the judges are not bound by the result. They have complete discretion on how much time each defendant convicted at trial in their courtroom should receive — or if they should be imprisoned at all — subject to appellate review.
Russell Wheeler, an expert on federal courts, said after the Supreme Court made the guidelines optional, many observers expected that judges still would use them out of habit and tradition, and because they can shield the judges from too much disparity.
"Perhaps that view has worn off now and they are back to fashioning sentences that are more individualistic," said Wheeler, the former deputy director of the Federal Judicial Center who teaches law at American University.
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"Angela, I can't believe you're a vampire." Patty smiles from across the yellow laminate McDonald's table while her Big Mac cools and chocolate milk shake melts. Luckily she wasn't there when I nearly killed Dr. Gail and Linda. It's a long story so I'll try to shorten it up a bit.
Patty was in the kennel putting away Penny the six-month-old West Highland terrier who'd just woken up after being spayed when D'Ogie the black and white cocker spaniel going to sleep so he can have his teeth cleaned stopped breathing. Unfortunately, Deb had asked me to explain Sophie, a beagle, with pancreatitis take home medications. As a vet tech, it's part of my job description to do all sorts of stuff at the clinic like surgical assisting and dismissing patient. But there is only Patty and me; Linda's an awesome assistant but she just doesn't have the training.
I should have had Deb find Patty to dismiss Sophie and stayed with D'Ogie. It's not that uncommon for Deb to watch a patient while I spend two minutes away from them. It's better than leaving the dog or cat alone. Next thing I knew, Deb is screaming CODE BLUE at the top of her lungs, Dr. Gail is doing chest compressions and injecting drugs at warp speed while Linda is doing artificial respirations. I rush in and Deb collapsed into tears in the corner. I touched D'Ogie on the nose and he started breathing on his own. I'm sure it's a coincidence.
Dr. Gail looks up at me, her face switched from relief to angry in a split second. Linda and Dr. Gail both start laying into me as fast as words can fly from their lips. Linda had already accused me of not doing my job when I first walked through the door this morning. It totally ruined my good morning. I had finally gotten eight hours of undisturbed sleep. I wish I could say that the worst thing about working for Riverview Veterinary Hospital is the late night emergencies. No. It's the nightmares. And I've had them for almost ten years. Ever since I lost my memory.
My most common nightmare is the one where I'm a vampire (yeah, that's the theme of most of them) and I'm hunting. Sometimes I'm great big orange and black tiger hunting deer and other animals. They typically scare the crap out of me. I'm a vegetarian, no not a vegan, a vegetarian. There is a difference. So the last thing I want to do is harm a person. If it was only feeding, I think I could handle that. Oh no, these dreams are worse than watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Joe Bob Riggs would be proud. Sorry, back on topic.
Deb still cowered on the floor and Dr. Gail and Linda are letting all their pet peeves about me out full force. I had no idea they'd been holding so much in. And it flipped a switch. I got angry too. Only worse, much worse. My body felt like it was on fire, my heart raced and I couldn't get a word out to defend myself. I felt my arm rise up of it's own accord and I stepped forward, my hand wanting to grip Linda's throat and squeeze. I'd had enough. My fingers touched her soft warm flesh and I realized what I was doing.
I slump to the table and push away my own milkshake. I took one sip and spit it back out. "Don't remind me." My strawberry milkshake tasted nothing like the bag of cows blood Dr. Dean Jacobs handed after I'd ran out into the mid-morning sunlight in a cold February day. It didn't feel cold and it didn't feel like February. It felt like August. I ran into the dark room to escape. I sat there for a few minutes trying to calm my nerves and then it happened. My heart stopped. What have I forgotten? What happened to me ten years ago?
"Dean's a vamp and he's a good guy. And honestly, if Linda was in my face as much as she is in yours, I'd think about killing her too." Sometimes I hate it that Patty's so understanding. Yeah, I know there are good vampires and my boss is one of them. They wouldn't have risked going public if most of them weren't already upstanding citizens. Some of them haven't 'come out of the coffin' yet. Like witches come out of the broom closet, gay's just get a regular whatever closet. No, vampires are stuck with cliché. Coffins.
Listen to me, I'm already talking like one and despite having fangs for a decade, I'm still such a newbie at this. I'm lucky Dr. Dean Jacobs followed me a few minutes later. I was sitting on the floor in the dark room leaning against the washing machine trying to get my racing pulse from under control. My senses were going wild; I could smell every living animal and human in the building and hear their heartbeats and I wanted to eat them all. My dormant fangs chose that moment to reappear and my heartbeat vanished.
A knock on the door startled me off the floor and I found myself clinging to the ceiling. I scolded myself as I dropped back to the floor.
"What?" I asked.
"Are you alright?" He asked. The bathroom scene in Teen Wolf flashes through mind; the part were Scott first turns into a wolf. I can so relate right now.
"Are you kidding me?"
"Open the door. I know what you're going through." Dean says. At the time I didn't know I worked for a vampire. I knew vampires existed and that one of the local attorneys, Alexander Richards, is one.
"No, the light, it hurts."
"You didn't run outside did you?" Of course I did. They were predicting another 2-5 inches of snow today with overcast skies all day. I was running from the awful feeling I was experiencing.
"I panicked alright." I said with anger, mostly at myself. I reached up and unlocked the door.
I spent the next ten minutes drinking cows blood while listening to Dean tell me a he was expecting this to happen much sooner. The reason the hunger had been dormant is because I have a silver bullet in my skull thanks to Police Detective Russell Ford whom I killed before I lost consciousness and all of my memories.
I have a whole new set of worries besides second guessing myself when it comes to anesthesia dosages and x-ray machine settings. Now I get to worry that I'm the monster in my dreams. That thought just fills me with dread so deep my stomach feels like it in my toes.
Dr. Dean Jacobs has been my boss for the past seven years, is a good friend and frequent visitor in my nightmares. I'm trying to run away from my hunger, heading across the railroad tracks to the river and trying not to kill any more people when he stops me. He tries to convince me that I'm a good person and I'm strong enough to control the hunger. I look at him and see the blood coursing under his skin. I'm attacking him when I wake up.
"Did you know Alexander Richards is a vampire too? Dean says he's an elder. I wonder what that means." It probably means that if I do something wrong, he's the one who'll dole out my punishment. I know who Alexander Richards is. He's the local divorce attorney. Yeah, that's right, the one and only divorce attorney. So if you and your spouse decide to get divorced one of you gets to drive a minimum of sixty miles to find another. Don't ya just love small town life?
Riverview is in southwest Nebraska along the Republican River and twenty miles from the Kansas / Nebraska border. They say I grew up in this town but nobody claims to know me. I know it's all lies. When there are only two grocery stores and three fast food joints, you run across people you know all the time.
In fact when I first started working for Dean, some people wouldn't let me touch their pets and even request I leave the exam room. I still tried to be friendly. It eventually worked. I now have people that prefer to see me, let me take their patient history, do blood draws for heartworm tests, and nail trims. How are they gonna react now? I pound my head on the table.
"I'm going home," I sigh. I grab my dinner, the extra I'd bought for Brendan my boyfriend and my purse. At least somebody will eat it. I'm gonna have to take all my groceries to Brendan's since its obvious that I'm not eating anything solid and doesn't have anticoagulants in it, well, in for forever. The thing is, Brendan is a total meat guy. There is never anything green in his fridge and yet he somehow keeps a totally tasty body.
Patty grabs my hand. "Ya still doing Pilates with me tomorrow?" Pilates. It's what Patty got me into when I got really mad at Linda one day. It was a pretty good stress reliever. I'd have preferred something with a punching bag like Tae Kwon-do but there aren't any instructors within eighty miles. It's probably a good thing. I might have done something worse to Linda than try to strangle her.
Night fell as I walked out of McDonald's with my left-overs and Brendan's dinner. I can already smell the bags of cows' blood sitting in the seat of my red Nissan Frontier. My truck makes me smile. It has all the features I love: leather seats, 4 wheel drive, black interior, 6 disc cd changer, bucket seats and a super charger. It's got the super cab so the box is pretty short so whenever somebody asks about it, I call it my heavy breathing half-assed truck that is grand fun to drive.
It looks as if I've missed a spectacular sunset. There is still a hint of the pinkish orange color reflecting off the snow and the clouds above. This night feels different than any I recall before. Before, the night was just something to pass through until the sun came up again and I could go out and play in my free time. Now I feel connected to the night. This feeling of belonging is unlike anything I've experienced in the nine and a half years. The clinic, Brendan, they all feel a little like family but this is so much more. The darkness wraps around me like silk against bare skin, the stars and the moon above illuminate the shadows like the brief flash of lightning in a summer thunderstorm that highlights the sky from horizon to horizon. What I wouldn't give to sit out under the moon and watch the nature of the night until the sun came up.
I put my key in the door and turn the lock. Call me old fashioned but I hardly ever use the remote that came with the keys. I slide onto the cold black leather seat and marvel at the fact that I'm not shivering and think about my day.
I also needed several darkroom breaks so I wouldn't feed on the clients. Doc told me to take a week off. Linda nearly exploded when he told her then came to her senses when I ran for the darkroom again.
Working as a vet tech leads to lots of unexpected hours. There are the 3 am c-sections on pugs or poodles or whatever and hit-by-car's at any time day or night and hunting dog injuries in the fall among many more unexpected problems. I never have a dull day. At least we don't do cattle work.
I pull my cell phone off my hip and dial Brendan's cell number.
"Hey honey." I hear his DJ voice sounding pleased that I called. "How's your day been?" I sigh and smile at his welcoming voice. I'd hug him if we were together. If he ever decides to get out of the detective business, the man could easily go into radio.
"Fangs and Furry." It's my usual response but today he won't know how fangtabulous it was until I get a chance to explain. "Have you had dinner yet?"
"No and I doubt I'll find time either. I'm currently interviewing the witness of a homicide. But if you could pick something up I'll stop by and spend ten minutes with you." He's so sweet. Most likely he'll be shoving food in his face as quickly as he can in an effort to avoid the questions I tend to ask about the cases he works on. I love a good mystery. If it sounds like we're married, it's because we've been dating for the last 3 years. I'm afraid of marriage because of my unknown past. How do you give yourself to somebody when you don't know who you were? I try not to think about it and don't push.
"Okay. What are you hungry for?" Just the sound of his voice is the next best thing to curling up next to him and falling asleep.
"Actually not much. The corpse bled everywhere." Probably not the best thing he could have said. "Surprise me. I hate to say this but maybe something not red." My fangs drop and my stomach growls. I hope he didn't hear that. I reach into the passenger seat and fumble for a bag. My hands just don't seem to want to work right at the moment.
"I can do that." I say trying not to let my fangs make me sound as if I have a lisp but my voice changed to reflect the hunger he stimulated with the blood comment. If I can hear the hunger in it, I'm sure he can as well. I finally get the blood bag out of the sack but I'm on the phone and talking with a bag is more difficult than talking with fangs.
"Are you alright?" Sure, nothing a little blood won't cure, maybe a lot more than a little. My stomach growls again. Will this never end? One day and I feel like an addict you hear them tell stories about. Do they have interventions for vampires who refuse to drink?
"I'm fine. Really." Be nice to him I tell myself before he comes running to help and you'll find your fangs in his neck.
"Are you sure?" Hurry up so I can fang the bag damn-it. God, what's wrong with me?
"Yes. I'll explain later. I've gotta go. Good luck finding the killer." I smile in an effort to make my voice sound less stressed, less hungry, less desperate. He chuckles and hangs up. Good luck finding the killer is one movie quote we been hoping to use and wishing it would never happen. It's not very often we have a murder in Riverview.
I drop the phone on the seat beside me and had the bag in my mouth before the phone lights shut off. I feel the blood trickle down my chin and I barely catch it before it stains my shirt. I feel like an addict and I hate it. After a few swallows, my hunger subsides, my fangs retract but the world doesn't return to its usual darkness until the bag is completely empty. I look around to see the parking lot empty, the security lights on and the nearly full moon shining in the back window. My eyes could not leave the moon in all its blinding splendor. I pull myself away from the beauty of the night and start the engine.
I head home with my sunglasses on. It seems as though everybody has their headlights on bright. I think I'll give Dean some time with Sally before I interrupt their evening.
I walk up my cracked front walk and into the shadow along side my single bedroom little house that I rent. I look up to the moon and twinkling stars high above. The darkness envelopes me and I feel safe for the first time since I first tasted blood today. It feels like the shadows and darkness are wrapped around me like a blanket against the scary things that are so scary that they don't go bump in the night. They go bump anytime. And I'm one of them.
UPDATE 7/19/09 I've been working on grammar, spelling, and getting the plot line right, any comments on characters (motivation and emotions) would be greatly appreciated.


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Gpops - you get the day off? DD2 and I are just chillin
Omar - saw a piece one time where they played now golf in your neck of the woods. Basically just drew a circle on the ground for the "green" and then dug a cup. I don't want to play that bad. Good to hear the legs are feeling good. I watched some of the X Games, amazing what those guys and gals can do!!
Max - that's reason enough for me to fly cross country, just for the T-shirt! With 3 breweries within a mile and half I would spend all my weekends walking from one to the other. Buddy of mine climbed Mt Rainier for his 40th b-day. Super nice week!
Dad - super nice week, even if it was shorter than planned.
Jim - nice word knowledge droppage, remind me not to try and play WWF with you. Not sure if I can ever do the whole cold water thing, I'm such a weenie.
Got 7 in at 8:58 on the TM.
"But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it." - Rafiki
I love LA - Feb 2016
OMR -- that is a hellofa week. Stay healthy. You are peaking, so be a little careful.
SP -- been listening to Marathon Talk (a couple of English chaps), and thinking you should listen. They talk a lot about the UK running scene, park races, etc. You might like it. Nice race.
Doc -- glad the pain is staying away.
Ilana -- you always sound like you are having so much fun. Nice week, and you even worked in a bike ride.
Nick -- 70. Nice.
Max -- you nailed the scary LR, and now it's downhill to Napa. You sound ready.
Gas and treadmills. Good lord. Thankfully I can run outside.
Still crazy here. Into the 70's today and we had a few days in the 80s. Hasn't rained in about 15 months. State of emergency.
Gpop -- the tube socks kill me. That is so funny. But really, don't they just suck?
Justin -- nice week and a nice LR. Good to see you are healthy and able to hit it a little harder. Now, you just need to stay on the road.
Dave, KK, Haulz, PJ -- nice weeks.
Hey everybody.
Here is how not to do it:
But for me, right now, it's fun, and I think it might be good for me -- being so old. Today, I added a nice 18@8:48 with a 116 AHR (67%) and 1300' of hills, to wrap up a 100/100 week (but zero swimming, so bad on me). My weekly long run was fine, and while I never picked up the pace, I stayed in the hills the whole time, going up and down, up and down. So at least there was some muscle development going on — even if I never really got tired or out of breath.
Here it is:
Mon: 10@9:32Tues: 14.5@8:58, 17 miles bikeWeds: 14.5@9:14, 25 miles bikeThurs: 14.5@8:56, 17 miles bikeFri: 14.5@8:51, 25 miles bikeSat: 14.5@8:53, 17 miles bikeSun: 18.1@8:48, 17 miles bike
Run: 100@8:59. Stupidly low AHRBike: 117 miles. Really slow.PT: 2-3 hours, beating out all those knots and sore tendons, and building strength
Don't do this at home. I am pretty sure I have crossed the over the line where my quantity and lack of quality is very sub-optimal. But remember; I am not training. I'm base building, running for fun, staying healthy and building strength. Plus, I'm in a streak where I really like my Podcasts and I'm studying my Italian, so I am definitely multi-tasking.
I don't start actually training for about four weeks.
Thought I had a decent week (marathon on 2/23 ... am I training?), but then this "old" guy ^ shows up...
All I can say is….damn.
FB: Just to set the record straight, I am NOT studying Italian while running. Never was good at multi-tasking...or mono-tasking for that matter. Yeah, I'm thinking from here on out, the focus for me needs to shift from pushing it to mostly maintaining and not doing anything stupid.
Nick: Oh, you reminded me of winter golf here in the frozen North. I played in a tournament a couple of decades ago on one of the local lakes, where the greens were cleared off ice. The cup was the size of a 5-quart ice cream pail. The fairways were plowed areas (snow pack) on the ice, lined with Christmas trees (tourney was in early January). The rough was a couple feet of snow (colored golf balls were a must, and if you went in the rough, you basically had to look for the hole your ball created), resulting in a penalty stroke. It was well below zero, so imagine swinging a club in a snowmobile suit, winter gloves, boots, etc. And trying to putt on glare ice was...uh...difficult. Fun stuff...and I was too young to drink beer, so hot cocoa was my only option for keeping warm.
FB: Oh, and +1 to Nick.
Run: 100@8:59. Stupidly low AHRBike: 117 miles. Really slow.PT: 2-3 hours...
Plus... studying my Italian, .
Oh that's just sick.
fb ~ How do you: a) find the time and b) get in enough calories?
A 16 y/o XC Runner stuck in a 52 y/o body.
Can def help with the "enough calories" thing
ilana - Yep, I've read Word Freak. I've actually beaten a couple of the best players in the country (drew good tiles) but I'm just a middle of the pack tournament player. Hey.....just like my running! Watch Word Wars if you have Netflix or something. You get to see some of those characters from the book. Quite entertaining! I prefer the up/down variation as well but that race in April starts downhill and has a couple of hills at the end. Trying to be as prepared as possible!
Nick - Sorry about the golf conditions........How about an indoor golf simulator to put next to your treadmill??? You'll never have to leave the house!
Ghetto - 5 days in a row is bad enough......sorry about the 13!
S - Max - Yep you called it. North Bend it was. Exit 32 and drive up to the Rattlesnake Lake parking lot (No Discover Pass needed!) The Snoqualamie Valley Trail has a nice gentle descent that should be good prep for April. Don't blame you for not wanting to drive though.
Dad - Don't beat yourself up over the 3 miles. Nice week anyway!
Jim E - Definitely going to shorten the Wednesday run a bit when the Thursday GMP and weekend LR get longer. Hills on Sunday also. Nice!
Pepper - Nice job getting 60 (my new magic number) I tried a TM on a cruise ship last summer but nearly fell off so I did my running around the deck and at the ports. I can't do treadmills!
FB - 100/100..........Never going to happen here. Used to do 200+ mpw on a bike back before I started running. Impressive week.
PR's 5k 20:39 (03/14) - 10k 42:04 (06/14) - 1/2 1:30:30 (03/14) - Marathon 3:26:00 (Eugene 2014)
Upcoming races - That east coast marathon in April again.
FB and OMR put us all to shame.
PJ-yeah, their milk stout is most widely available and how I originally heard of the brewery. I tried a milk stout similar to theirs once too but it was one of my early tries and theirs was much better. Good job getting 60 in despite the weather.
Nice week Jim, especially that 18. I don't know if I could stand that chilly dip for 5 minutes but if it works that's great.
Dad-great week
Max-three within 1.5 miles? That's pretty great. I was in Seattle for New Year's with friends and made it to the Red Hook brewery and Mac and Jack's. You have some great brews up there. Great week.
nick-nice TM run.
Ilana-great week! I'm jealous of all the hills and trails you get to run during the week. That's awesome you can stop during a run and watch some racing.
dave-very solid week. Sounds like nice trail and hills on Sunday's run.
KKrunner-nice work getting the 15 miles in.
hatulz-nice work on the mileage PR and weight loss. Cutting pounds can be a nice way to shave some minutes off your time and it's easy to lose them when you're upping your mileage.
Hey to everyone else.
Weights and elliptical day for me. Just like last Friday, tomorrow is supposed to be cold with possible freezing rain or sleet but hopefully that will hold off until after my morning run. Very strange weather for Houston, but I guess it's in line with the harsh winter most of the rest of the country is having. Keep warm folks.
PRs: 5k 19:23, 10k 39:39, HM 1:36:11
hey 320 group: any thoughts or advice on my week?
Mon - 9.8@8:20 w/ 3xhills hard (0.6@7:00)
Tues - 5.9 easy
Wed - 1 hour TM easy
Thur - 7.2 tempo - w/ 5@7:35
fri - 30 min TM easy
Sat - 20@8:45 w/ last 1@7:30
Sun - 5 easy
Last 4 weeks I've been increasing from 42 mpw to the present 58 mpw. My GP for the April marathon is 730 (w/ first 5 miles slower). My "fast" paced runs were not that fast, but the road conditions have been slippery and I am sure I can increase those.
The training plan will follow this week's pattern (3 hard days 4 easy) over next 12 weeks w/ workouts from higdon and mcmillian 12 week plans. I like the mcmillan plan more, but I want to keep higdon's emphasis on hill workouts and MP runs. any opinions good, bad or indifferent would be great. thanks
10k - 41:23 (3/30/14)
26.2 - 3:27:38 (4/21/14)
hatulz - if you use Firefox and Greasemonkey, you can install a userscript to do the conversion! https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/39738 will convert anything you mouseover, and http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130277 will convert anything it recognizes, though it looks like it is not smart about rounding. (I almost always have a window open to the Runworks calculator which has a pace conversion function.)
Justin - why not run on the nice days and do the elliptical/weights on the sleety ones?
Dave - I am actually much more into crossword puzzles than Scrabble, but so cool you do tournaments.
FB - all those identical runs and rides - don't you want to mix it up a little? Awesome volume. And those are my kind of paces, so with your PRs you are probably basically walking those runs. Seriously, YOWZA. We're also Drought City but it looks like we might get rain or snow later in the week.
PJ - I'm sinister as well. BTW the brewery's named for a local historic figure, Chief Niwot (meaning Lefthand) who was the leader of an Arapaho tribe in the mid-19th century. Lots of things named Lefthand and Niwot in the Boulder area.
Jon - looks good to me although I would tend to run tempos more at HMP this far from the race.
Nick and SMax - you guys should come here. I have three breweries within half a mile, one more within a mile and a half, and a fifth about 3.5 miles away (the one we biked to). The closest and one of our favorites is three blocks from here, just like Max's, and we like to get growlers from them, too!
Smax - the skate park is on the north end of the little park where the swings are.
Jim - a couple of the mountain trail races I do end by rivers, and five minutes in that water is an unbelievable agony. But I do it anyway.
Dad - great week. I did Myrtl/core twice as well, was supposed to do it last night but drank wine instead, oops.
OMR - actually I used to do corporate league giant slalom - in fact, that's how my husband and I met. We were both on our organization's ski team; he'd seen me in the halls, introduced himself before a race and we rode up the lift together - by the time we reached the top, I was in love.
Gpops - well, I just got the phone, and as you know it is big and heavy! I ordered an armband in the same shipment as my new mp3 player so I can theoretically carry it now, but the mp3 player is so much tinier and lighter.
10 1:12:59 (2014) 13.1 1:35:55 (2013) 26.2 3:23:31 (2013)
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Dad - I get really tight and yoga does seem to help, and it's like mandatory stretching.
Jim - ever since my days of mandatory ice baths, I have a hard time with it!
Nick - how old are your kids? That'll be tough to get used to haha.
Smax - I'm really terrible about MP runs, moreso than HMP for some stupid reason. I'm also not awesome at pacing (re: my "MP" at 7:22ish).
Climber - in the event that this HM in Tel Aviv happens (I'm signed up for it), I think I need some way to acclimate to the heat. Bikram yoga has helped with that before. But otherwise, I'm at the point where I don't bother with gloves if it's sunny and 25, so I'm not sure what to do in actual heat!
Hatulz - what kind of yoga do you usually do?
Pops - the only thing close to tube socks I have are my wool socks I use when it's really cold. I'm sure I look really cool in those.
Ilana - my husband keeps talking about running with me, but then he's had to work the last couple of Sundays, which is when I do my recovery runs and he could probably keep up . Maybe one day.
Never run - I managed to total my husband's (old) Land Rover so I didn't get much of a say in what was and wasn't in the budget. But we actually got a good price on it
Hubby and I did manage to go to Bikram yoga yesterday. I took it pretty easy as I've been out of that loop for a while and my hamstrings tend to KILL after that,. think it went ok because I'm not sore today! So, all good and next time I'll do a bit more.
PRs: 5K: 22:10, HM: 1:32:59, FM: 3:21
ilana-mostly due to my run yesterday, I needed a day of non-running lighter impact. Unfortunate it fell on the wrong day, but I managed last Friday so I think it'll be fine this time.
Those of you experiencing real winter will find this funny. Several local school districts have already cancelled school for Tuesday and Wednesday. So silly.
I was going to post my week, but with OMR killing it and FB in beast mode, why bother?
Anyway, 49 miles for me with one decent run Saturday night (9 with progression, 7:01 and 6:49 for last 2, 8:44 OA). This seems to be a pattern - afternoon/evening runs are OK, but I still have zero energy when I run in the morning. I tell myself that if my pace slows to 10:00+ by mile 5, I can take the turnoff for home (a mile away). Following that rule, I haven't had a morning run over 6 miles in weeks. I really should try running after work instead, but I have a much harder time motivating myself to get out the door then.
Justin - how cold is it? Nothing ever closes here in Utah, and the few times it does everyone has already almost killed themselves on the way to work or school..
Kin - I always have more energy in the afternoons too, I just hate how it's dark and traffic is heavier, and the air gets worse as the day goes on, so I try to force the mornings at least half the time.
Right now about 65 but will get down around freezing tonight and then stay near 35 or so until Wednesday. It's the potential ice on the road that people are freaking out about, but cancelling everything already seems like an overreaction.
Ilana - I'm sure your mountain streams are somewhat colder than SF Bay. Brrr. You got me interested in those Greasemonkey scripts. I think I could tweak the second one to do pace conversions, and maybe look at the rounding too. (I don't want to touch that first one, the code is ugly) Would that be of interest?
FB - It's not that often that people post 3-digit weeks on here. Nice work. Stay healthy now.
Catch up with the rest of you later.
Marathons this year: Oakland (2AG), San Francisco full (2AG), Santa Rosa (pacer, but 1AG anyway). next: CIM
Omar - that doesn't even remotely sounds like fun, even if beer had been involved. FWIW - now that I've seen Ride Along I know picture you as 6'3" and looking a lot like Lawrence Fishburne
McB - I was thinking the same thing, I'm eating enough for me and FB
Dave - that's a great idea! I just need a bigger house, and probably a new spouse if I were to suggest it....
Justin - hope you got the run in and we overreact about the weather here as well, although maybe not that bad
Jon - I would extend out the Thur run to around 10 or so. Why mix the two plans? Why not just pick one of the two and go with it?
ilana - wasn't Grassmonkey a Beastie Boys song.....If I lived that close to breweries the last thing I would either have to do a lot more running!! Love the ski lift love story, that's cool!
KK - 10 and 13, both girls. DD1 is a at the age were she can watch be a babysitter so at least there are times I can sneak out if DW is gone. Ouch on the totaled LR
kin - bummer on the blah morning runs. I'm like you, if I don't get it done in the morning than I come up with 1,000 reasons not to run in the PM
Jim - what up
Hey all
10 this morning on the TM, again. Supposed to be intervals but that just ain't happening as I almost bit the dust again. Decided to go progression again and did 6 progression from 8:20 to 7:20, 8:11 OA for the 10.
back from the dead. i have an internet situation at my apartment that i need to clear up...
my week: ran 14, biked 24. guhhhhh. my body is rebelling against my spring racing plans. the KP Half this weekend is going to a real joke. my "long" was 10 @ 8:18 on friday with some coworkers (who dropped me at one point and then started rattling off 7:0xs. running with dudes...sigh.). hoping to muster some w/u and c/d miles surrounding the half this weekend to get back to a distance reminiscent of, well, distance. </pityparty>
Dad - WHOA. mad impressed. and wow, amazing that you ran with ted corbitt!! (i ran the ted corbitt 15k once...).
dls - cutie!!!
FB - regarding KP half dinner plans, i live in SF proper, in Nob Hill. and your week... ho. ly. f. i am not worthy. that is all. !
OMR - AWESOME mpw pr! so so impressive. you lapped me a few million times there.
NS - great long run! pretty solid pace for a 20 at this point.
seattle - really tough LR, nice job getting it done. that sounds so mentally difficult.
caught up. whew that was a task! awesome running, all.
anyone here use strava?
_________________________________________1mi - 5:50 / 5k - 20:16 / 13.1 - 1:33:49 / 26.2 - 3:21:05next up: north face CA 50k, ?, boston marathon, ?
GP - knee is not quite normal yet. it's very creaky when i wake up. after walking around throughout the day it's fine, but also kneeling on just the one twinges a bit. gonna try to go ahead with training this week as planned and we'll see what happens
Gpops - your pockets are bigger than mine, then!
rlk - take care of that knee! Also, take care of the internet situation.
nick - and our running club membership provides $1 off pints at three of them! One of the owners of Ska Brewing is an ultrarunner, too. Good work making the mistress work.
hatulz - well, they do call her Mother Nature...
Jim - ooh, cool, the script would be nifty.
kinase - it sounds like I'm the rare person who prefers running in the morning! Actually this time of year I run midday because I like the warm sun. But the few times I've had to run in the afternoon I feel sluggish.
KK - it works well for us to do my warm-up loop with him and then go off on whatever workout I have. He is fine with running 8:45-9:15 pace on pavement though he's slower on trails. You should sign your husband up for the Canyonlands 5-miler!
Apologies to OMR and Gpops and everyone else in the cold zone, as it's another sunny short-sleeve day here. Headed out around 45F and it was probably 50F by the time I came back. Today's run was 8.2 miles with a ladder of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1 mile intervals and then back down, separated by 2-min jogs. It went fairly well though not at all consistent, due to the bits of hill and pedestrians and loose dogs and my own mediocre running. Well, fun, anyway.
jumping right in here. .
dls - cute pup! I really luv dogs. as u can see from my pic, i am one.
samuel P - kick arse 10k.
justin - nice week - solid miles
O M R - u seem to be what mcmillian calls "endurance monster"
FB - ditto. holy crap. IM training I am guessing . . .
GePops - 17 w/ MP intervals every third. I like that. nice run
Nick S - solid 70 mpw. thanks for advice.I agree but . .must. . .drag. . arse . . .out of . . bed . . . early...
seatlemax - super LR. going to dark place in training = hardcore
never run - gotta hate stinky TM mates. theres no escape
dad4JZ - nice fast 18. slow start ups are good
climberdave - nice trails. whereabouts? tough to do the downhill part first. . .
JimE - fast week. love reading your track workouts. hills the day after a LR sounds tough.
pepperjack - no TM for 6 years? sounds nice but I gotta hide from these polar vortex days.
McB - hello - nice suit
hatlutz - u r somewhere warm I presume? nice wk
Ilana - thanks for the advice - HMP for tempo - check! would've done it then but it was icy
Krunner - my college age daughter got me to go to yoga - I love it. great flexibility.
Kinase - 9 w/2 @6:49 sounds like u must got SOME energy. did i read you were injured? bummer if so.
rlk - I like strava - and Ive seen a few others from these RW lists on there.
4th week of Hansons not worth detailing, added a few miles to make it 51. All on the TM as it's been so darn cold (or dark) but unlike those who think they'll fall off the back end and fly through a wall I think I can only do speedwork on the treadmill. Feels like cheating not having to worry about pace but at least I can complete the workout, right?
FB, amazing work.
Crazy situation in the Florida panhandle, forecast is calling for possibility of freezing rain tomorrow, so schools closed tomorrow and Wednesday.
Hopefully I can fly out Wed to SFO, join FB in some base building work at the SF HM. Did have a niggle of pain, so still just running every 3rd day for now, Biking twice a day on non running days. If it would warm up I could run in my pool.
Hello everyone - those I know from last year's sub-3:30 thread and those I don't!I just signed up to run the Maine Coast Marathon in May and I'm in the fourth week of my second time doing Pfitz 18/55. I doubt I'll get to 3:20 this cycle, but maybe I have a shot in the fall if I manage to train for two this year! Life is complicated right now - I'm living in Portland ME while working my new job and my wife is doing the single-parent thing (3 school-age kids) and trying to sell our home near Albany NY. Hopefully we'll all be back together again soon.
Anyway, I could do with some running-accountability, so here I am.
Last week was a bit better under-foot than the preceding weeks, so I had a go at the pace work - yeah - need some time to get that back. I'm going to blame some of my sluggishness on the cold - and the resulting winter running-wear.
This was last week:
M 10, W 4, Th 8 with 4 supposedly at LT (more like MP!), F 4, Sa 14.
Today I did 8 with some strides (first since before my last marathon in Oct). I've been keeping my mileage up not too badly, but not much else during the off-season.
Dad: I have those same questions about FB...especially the calories part. Well, and the time part, too.
hat: FB is the boss. That heat is crazy, and I'm staying out of the discussion about weather and gender identity.
Justin: Yeah, that is strange for Houston. Hope you - along with the rest of us - get some relief soon!
Jon: I'm not experienced enough to offer any advice, so I'll defer to ilana and others...
ilana: Well, I shouldn't be surprised (regarding the giant slalom). Just how long was that ride up the lift?!?!
KK: I think we need photos of those wool tube socks.
Justin: I was surprised when the MN governor shut down the entire state school system a couple of weeks ago. Never would have happened when I was a kid.
kin: Why bother?! Now that's just silly. Sounds like you're getting your mojo back. Do people still use "mojo"??
Nick: Oh, it was fun...until the hands started to go numb (the temps were well below 0). So, it was fun for about 10 minutes. As for Ride Along, I haven't seen it, but I think this is the first time anyone has mentioned me in the same sentence as Laurence Fishburne. This makes me question...uh...a lot of things... Nice work on the TM, even if you bailed on the intervals. It does take some getting used to.
rlk: Welcome back to the...uh...undead... Hope the knee holds up for you.
ilana: Wait, what?! Your running club offers beer discounts?! I WANT TO JOIN!! No apologies necessary for that weather...enjoy it for all of us!
Gpops: How is your DD doing with that stuff that happened a while back?
Jim: Come to think of it, I don't think we've had an update on the DW in a while.
short legs: Yep, completing the workout is the important thing, especially if the alternative is to attempt it on icy roads.
dls: Base building with FB sounds like a good plan to me. Hope that works out!
runbegan: Welcome! That does sound complicated!
Hey to everyone...
9 @ 8:09 on the indoor oval for me today (72 lovely laps). After Saturday's 21 on the TM, I've needed a break from her for a few days. I'm supposed to do intervals tomorrow, but I don't know that I'm ready for another speed session just yet.
Dad: Trying to figure out a good meaning for the acronym S.L.O.W – Slug-Like Only Worse?
Jim: If you are marking trails - have you ever been hare for the Hashers? I think most of us here qualify as having a running problem.
Nick: Beer, trails, mountains. It's not bad here. A bit gray and drizzly for 10 months or so but with some nice days mixed in and none of that ice that many of you are surviving.
PJ: Speaking of ice, staying upright is a good thing.
FB: Nothing I can say that others haven't said. I got curious – looking back I found one week a couple years ago when I was riding a lot where I did 63 on foot and ~260 on the bike. The next week was 53 and 35, so I guess the big week tuckered me. And yours was at a stupidly slow HR.
OMR: Winter golf sounds like the kind of crazy I would have been into a couple decades ago too. Now crazy is staying up late enough to see a band live.
CD: DW and did park once at your turnaround to train for the Tunnel. Ran 10 miles up past where you parked, then turned around came back down. That grade is awesome.
All geeks: Glad there was an opportunity to look at some scripts.
Justin: Next time try Elysian or Fremont. Rumor has it that there are 4 more within a 3 mile radius, but I can never trouble myself to go past the 3 close ones and find them. Seattle schools are very wimpy about ice. Actually, they are just good at making the wrong call – school's open and the (hilly) roads are killer with ice, schools are closed and the roads are dry and clear
Jon: Seems like you are doing ok if it's slippery. I read somewhere today that slick conditions are much harder on the ab- and ad-ductors so more tiring.
Ilana: Ok, 3 in half a mile is quite the wealth of breweries. I just have trouble making it farther than the 3 blocks – I can't tell if it's my favorite because of the beer, the variety of beers (well, except maybe for their 12 Beers of the Apocalypse during the Mayan end of the world), or the proximity.
KK: I'm sure you can learn from Badwater about training for heat – put on 5 layers, etc..
Kinase: Which is cause and which is effect? The pace or the option to turn home?
And I haven't even finished catching up yet. Hey to the rest.
Total failure on the T intervals this morning. Gave up after 5 minutes of getting tired while not getting anywhere near target pace. Ended up running 6 M with strides. I rarely give up, but it was definitely one of those S.L.O.W runs. Pushed harder at legs class this evening trying make up for it.
Sam – nice one. For a hilly course 40:03 is a great result and looks like a definite sub 39 is around the corner on a flatter/more consistent course. I have just booked a 10k race for 2 March (albeit a bit hilly too) so will see if I can match you on a 40 minuter! Maybe take a look at the Bristol 10k which I think is in May – a good way to stretch your legs after Paris!
Forno – that is some serious mileage! I echo that Marathon Talk is well worth a listen – I spent a good bit of my time on holiday catching up with some back episodes and listen to it every week.
OldMan – don't know how you managed 21 miles on a treadmill. I don't think I would have the patience.
On my side I am starting to ramp things up properly with the P&D 18/70 schedule – I was a bit lax following the first couple of weeks because I was on vacation but got a 12 miler at around 8:30 pace in this morning (at a comfortable 5 degrees C I should add!). I felt like I could have pushed a few miles at MP but wanted to hold back given it was not on the schedule. I also did some speed work last week plus have a threshold run later this week.
I looked back at my training logs and my weekly mileage to date was a bit lower than I thought – more like 35 to 40 mpw over Winter coming down from the peak of 55 from the Autumn marathon schedule. I don't have any concerns about ramping up the mileage on the Pfitz programme but it makes me think I probably have more potential to improve if I do meet that mileage than I may have thought. We will see but I am relatively open minded at this stage. I have a 10K scheduled for 2 March and HM for 29 March to see where I am at (Marathon is on 26 May).
PBs: HM 87:09 (3/15) | M 3:16:07 (10/14)
Dad: Trying to figure out a good meaning for the acronym S.L.O.W – Slug-Like Only Worse? .
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taking off from last post . . .
ghetto - empty pocketses - yup - but only 1 in college for me so far
shortleg - cold + dark = blah. but speedwork on a TM? ouch. still high blah factor
dls - poolrunning! I like also. how do you log your pool miles?
runbegan - good week. especially in Maine - which sounds quite frosty.
Ol M R - indoor track sounds better than TM. nice. 100 mile weeks isn't enough experience? hmmm.
Seattle - bummer on the intervals. sounds like the mojo returned later though.
london - nice 12.
dad4JCZ - "steady loping . . . ." something something? "on weekends" kind of works.
9.3 w/ 3xhills yesterday - at 5am which must also count for something. TM today probly. polar vortex and all that.
London-sounds like you have a great training outlook ahead of you. Increasing the mileage should get you some extra fitness. You look like you're in good position to get a nice PR in your 10K then go from there.
Max-I will definitely try those next time I'm in town. Too bad about the intervals not working out, but sometimes just don't have it. Knowing when to call it and change plans is a good thing.
OMR-nice work getting the mileage in.
runbeganatforty-welcome to the group! Nice week and you're certainly welcome even if you don't plan to go for a 3:20 in May.
dlsmd-continued good thoughts as you recover from the stress fx. Stay safe in the weather there. Seems like no one knows how to drive with winter weather either in Florida or Texas.
ilana-very nice run. Glad the weather is so nice there. Looking out for loose dogs is always an adventure on runs. When I lived in San Antonio that was a huge problem. Houston, not so much.
gpops-legs still good. If anything, just some stiffness from weights yesterday that I ran out eventually during the run today. I'm very grateful to be out there and healthy.
nick-nice progression
hatulz-your current weather sounds similar to a Houston summer. Not fun to run in.
Jon-very nice hills run. How cold is it up where you are?
9.1 @ 8:28 for me this morning. I got up a little earlier than usual to try to beat the weather and it worked. It was around 36 degrees and started to rain a bit near the end of the run, but not even freezing rain so it was fine. Now the sleet and freezing rain is really starting in Houston, but it's nowhere near as bad as they had first predicted, at least not in inner loop Houston.
Trying to catch up... won't even try to say thanks individually. So thanks - to all of you. I am still obsessing with Sunday's race, tangents, pacing, parked cars and whatnot. Thinking about racing another 10k in 4 weeks, still TBD.
Lots of great weeks posted. Mine was cutback, only 49 miles or so. Don't you guys feel like the thread as a whole is training super well these days? I know I do.
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forno - Do you have a link? Great to see the 100/100 weeks are back
short legs - That is cheating 101. Intervals are pointless from a training point of view, no idea why people still run those things. I only do them for the maths. Added bonus if you run miles but think of pace in kilometers like I do. Ha!
runbeganatforty - Accountability is our last name. Welcome.
londonwelsh - signed up for Bristol's 10k 3 weeks ago or something The course follows the river so it is pretty flat. Ever heard of the Castle Combe Chilly 10k? I am thinking about doing that one as well.
short legs - great job getting the work done despite being forced to TM it!
runbegan - welcome!
OMR - i think 72 laps would nauseate me. mad props!
seattlemax - no worries on missing the intervals. smart for throwing in strides to make up for it!
jon - i haven't seen 5am since....marathon i did in november? dang, dude. nice job.
yesterday after work was 6.1mi @ 8:03. no music and actually really enjoyed it (minus the wind) and all systems felt pretty good. yay! plan for tonight is a slightly abbreviated speed workout. heh, last time i was at the track i met kinase! (and slogged home very soon after)
rlk - sorry to hear that things aren't grooving for you at this point, but I have no doubt you will pull a Stella soon! I was using Strava for a little while but finally gave up on it, too many other places I'm tracking miles.
Gpops - if I keep spending time with her at this rate I'm going to have to pay alimony come Spring.... How in the world do you run with a phone in your pocket? That would drive me nuts
Ilana - what? A cool running club AND you get a discount on beer. I need to find a job in CO!! Hope those loose dogs didn't cause you too much of an issue
Jon - I agree, getting out of a warm bed takes a lot of effort some mornings!
Doc - you better watch out, the locals are going to blame you for bringing the cold weather with you!
Run40 - welcome and living that far from the family would be tough, although you should be able to get a lot of running in!
Omar - I would so love an indoor track right now.... you will have to see the movie to understand, it will be very evident! I think part of my TM/interval issue is that the deck isn't very wide and the wall is right behind me so one bad step and a lot of drywall is going to need repair
Max - just a bad day, shake it off and nail the next workout!
London - way to give Douglas some props, Dad would approve
Jon - solid run with the hills, no bonus for the 5 am, that's standard getting up time for me, on runs shorter than 7. Longer than that means up earlier
Justin - nice work on getting out there before the weather hit, hope it continues to be less than forecasted
Sam - yep, lots of good running going on
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February 11, 2011 8:49 am
A kaleidoscope of beliefs at the Multifaith Banquet
Feeling torn between two colleges on the eve of the acceptance deadline, Leena Nasser '12, of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, turned…
October 26, 2010 4:14 pm
Activist revisits civil rights work in autobiographical play
During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, John Perdew dropped out of Harvard in order to fight for the equal rights of all Americans. Some 40 years later, he turned his story into The Education of a Harvard Guy, a play that he performs at Bates College at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.
April 29, 2010 2:02 pm
Georgetown University professor to speak about Muslim relations with West
John L. Esposito, an expert on political Islam and the impact of Islamic movements from North Africa to Southeast Asia, offers a talk titled The Future of Islam and West-Muslim Relations Tuesday, May 4, in Chase Hall Lounge at Bates College, 56 Campus Ave.
March 12, 2010 9:25 am
Bates College student, Outright L/A receive justice and peace award
This year's William Stringfellow Awards for Justice and Peace will be presented to Kate Doria, a Bates College senior active in community service, and Outright L/A, a sex and gender support group. An awards ceremony and potluck supper will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 14, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College, 95 Russell St.
March 5, 2010 4:10 pm
In Bates College lecture, Harvard professor of religion to discuss significance of tears
Kimberley Patton, professor of the comparative and historical study of religion at the Harvard Divinity School, offers a lecture titled "The Gates of Weeping Are Not Closed: The Powerful Work of Tears in Human Experience" Monday, March 22, in Bates College's Chase Hall Lounge.
December 7, 2009 4:40 pm
'Go Tell It on the Mountain' is theme for annual holiday celebration
The annual holiday service of lessons and carols at Bates College, sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy, is themed "Go Tell It on the Mountain." It will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, in the Bates College Chapel, College Street.
February 27, 2009 2:17 pm
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Frank Warren, creator of an award-winning Web site that has allowed hundreds of thousands of people to anonymously share their secrets through handmade postcards, gives Bates College\'s annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Lecture
March 26, 2008 9:58 am
Barbara Brown Taylor discusses Sabbath in Zerby lecture
Barbara Brown Taylor, Butman Professor of Religion at Piedmont College, will give a presentation titled "Sabbath: Self-Care or the Mending of the World?" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in the Bates College Chapel. The public is invited to attend the 2008 Zerby Lecture in Contemporary Religious Thought, sponsored by the Office of the Multifaith Chaplain, free of charge. For more information, please call 207-786-8272.
January 23, 2008 3:48 pm
'Art, Alterity: Beyond the Other as Enemy in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'
To expand dialogue among Bates College students about Palestinian-Israeli relationships, the Office of the Multifaith Chaplaincy announces a two-week series of events, "Art and Alterity: Beyond the Other as Enemy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."
March 8, 2007 3:05 pm
Professor of African-American studies shares spiritual journey
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Glove Universe
on ESB
|Glove Universe
|former Glove World Owner
|Glove-related products
|First appearance:
|"Glove World R.I.P."
|Latest appearance:
|Glove Universe (online game)
|List of places
Glove Universe is the successor theme park to Glove World. It was opened after the original Glove World closed. It appears in the episode "Glove World R.I.P." It also appears in the online game "SpongeBob's Next Big Adventures." It also appears at the end of Bikini Bottom Bop 'Em.
All the rides at the original Glove World park were breaking down due to age. Finally, the park was scheduled to be closed. SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick did everything they could to prevent this, including riding all the broken rides to see if they could fix them, and chaining themselves to Glove World's entrance when they discovered that most of the rides could not be fixed. The owner of Glove World comes to shut down the park, but cannot because SpongeBob and Patrick have chained themselves to the gate. SpongeBob asks him if there is any way Glove World could stay open. The owner says he is closing Glove World so he can open the much larger and better Glove Universe park. SpongeBob and Patrick are very excited, and SpongeBob tells Patrick to give him the key to their chains so they can go to Glove Universe. Unfortunately, Patrick threw the keys in Glove Lake, "where no one will ever find it!" The original Glove World is later officially shut down and demolished.
The names of the rides at Glove Universe are unknown, although it appears to be many times bigger than Glove World. It also has many flashing lights, and it appears to have upgraded versions of all the old rides at Glove World, including the famous Fiery Fist O' Pain roller coaster. The rides may have names when introduced in future seasons or episodes. According to the SpongeBob's Next Big Adventures online game, it will still have the Tunnel of Glove.
- There is an online game also titled "Glove Universe."


text: Our group of 12 visited and thoroughly enjoyed our visit. From the moment we were greeted by owner, Bobbie, to the end of our delicious meal, the service was outstanding. Our server could not have been more attentive. I chose to be adventurous and try one of the "specials" - a turkey with cream cheese & jalapeno raspberry jam on croissant sandwich - grilled like a panini. The combination of sweet and slightly hot was wonderful. We sampled several teas and found our favorites to be in the rooiboos group. Their baked goods are well worth the calories and the charm of their dining room creates a most relaxing, fun experience. It is recommended that if going with a large group, you make a reservation and arrive at opening (11:00am) to ensure being seated together. I suspect this is especially true "in season," during the months of Jan - March.