THEN Ginny is having her telecounseling students over for food, so I’ll be grilling some hamburgers, chicken and hot dogs.  Should be a good time.  I’m looking forward to what people come dressed up as.  In years past we’ve seen Darth Vader, Minnie Mouse, Fidel Castro and my personal favorite… a substitute teacher (complete with spit wads in hair).  One year, Ginny and I tried to go as a stingray and Steve Irwin… it didn’t go over very well.  Apparently it was too soon.  Oh well.  Not sure what I’m going to go as this year.

Last but not least, Taco Bell is giving away FREE Taco’s tomorrow night!!!!  yes, you heard right… FREE!  From 6-8pm because Jason Bartlett stole 2nd base in game 1 of the World Series.  Hot Diggity.  I’m gonna be stuffed tomorrow!

I LOVE FOOD!!!

Also, I’m still training for the marathon that’s this sunday.  I’m kind of bummed that Dugle had to bail, so I’m stuck running it “by myself” with 40,000 other people.  I should still be ok though…  I feel like I’ve trained a LOT better than the one I ran in 2002.  I’ve followed a training schedule from www.halhigdon.com and have been doing ok for the most part.  I’ve even run the 20 mile run!!!  I have had some aches and pains along the way though… shin splints, knee pains, hamstring issues, tight calves, etc.  Today I saw Julie Francis (Francis Physical Therapy… site coming soon I hope!) and she did some stuff for my knee-cap on my left knee.  I ran 3 miles tonight with it taped and it felt much better.

Also, I started my new job over in IT a few weeks ago.  It was sad to leave advancement because I loved working on the www.greenville.edu website, but the change was needed.  I am enjoying my new work environment and feel good about my decision.

Before I left advancement, I began doing research for our new CMS.  Joomla! has been great, but it just doesn’t have the power we needed.  I did a lot of extensive research on dotCMS (www.dotcms.org) and have really fallen in love with it (even though it is Java based.)
Welp, I’m tired.  Goodnight!