start of the new plan...

well, today im heading out for my first day of hard training... not that what i have done to this point hasnt been hard... but im now focusing more on high intensity stuff (instead of the long hours). fun fun. actually im kinda looking foward to it. :)

me & allie had such a great weekend. nothing really out of the ordinary, but it was fun nonetheless. after she got her hair colored (no more blonde... dark red now)..we headed up to york maine. did some walking around on the beach...took some pictures... then hung out in portsmouth for a bit... then to my parents for a bit... then back to manch...

what is wrong with people.

Teen Girls Accused Of Setting Kitten Ablaze

are you kidding me? how can anyone be that disturbed is so beyond me.
sad.

i have been thinking of switching my blog over to VOX. dunno. i set up an account, but i need some time to play with it. The reason for the possible change is that I can upload pictures & video directly from my N95. yes, i know i can do that with blogger, but only by MMS. I dont really like doing it that way. The other option is Shozu, which I (in theory) love... but recently uninstalled, because it was giving me some issues. Additionally, they have a 10mb limit on thier video uploads.

the guys over at Viddler seem interested in creating a mobile upload option. so before someone stole my screen name, i signed up over there. hmmm, maybe while im at it, i should sign up for blip.tv as well.

dunno. we will see where i end up with this stuff....

oh... and everyone should go sign up for a jaiku account. good stuff.

yawn

after 3 days of learning about Civil 3d, im kinda more scared than ever to make the switch. the software is slick. but its quite a bit different than our current version...and i have a feeling my boss is going to expect me to come back tomorrow 100% ready to teach everyong how to use it. umm. no. that aint gonna happen. basically the class crammed tons of stuff into 3 days.. lots of overview..but not that much specific time on each topic.

well, i called Dell & they are shipping me a new Nokia N95. I have to send the bricked one back tomorrow. ;( frustrating that all that happend. I called Nokia tech support and went thru everything with them... they have no idea why that happend.

I want to update my firmware on the other phone, but im scared to do it. I am kinda thinking of waiting to the new version comes out & maybe planning a weekend trip with allie to NYC. we could have some fun there, and i will sneak off to the Nokia flagship store and have them flash it... haha. im a pussy...but i dont wnat to have to send a 2nd one back. The phone works fine with the current version, just some tweeks in the newer software...

back to "real" work tomorrow.

oh, and I felt good during my 2x20min threshold intervals tonight :) good sign.
same thing on monday's workout. I am planning on taking it easy thurs/fri... then the 100mile ride with mom on saturday... then one more hard threshold day on sunday, then REST WEEK. after that, the real training begins. first cross race is only 9 weeks away. yikes.

the good news is that i got the N95. the bad news is i broke the N95.
ugh. after drooing over the package, i opened it up. sooo sweet. after charging it, i turned on & played with it for a few minutes... before i started loading software on, i wanted to check & make sure i had the latest firmware. nope, i didnt.... first things first. update that.

its supposed to be a relatively easy procedure, recommended by Nokia.
I got about 75% installed, and somehow the program lost connection with my phone.
are you kiddin me? i spent the enxt 3 hrs trying various things... but basically its now dead. I am going to call Nokia today... but I have a feeling its gotta be shipped back to them to get it reflashed... or just send it back to Dell.

ugh. how annoying.

:(

phone is here....

since im in class all day, i am not at the office to pick up my new phone....
fortunately i got mature coworkers who sign for it.... i just got this message on my phone, showing one of the guys giving it "some love".

nice.

im in a 3 day class for AutoDesk Civil 3D. yeah dude. gettin wicked smaht.
this program is amazing.

my training has been a little lax the last 2 weeks. i hate to miss workouts and very rarely do i skip a scheduled ride... but i have missed a few lately. ugh. since i took sunday off (birthday), i did my threshold workout last night... of course, it started pouring about 10 mins into my ride. ugh. i did my 2x20min intervals.. but the first one didnt go so well, as it was raining so hard i couldnt see the road..and im pretty sure the cars couldnt see me. ugh.

my Nokia N95 should be delivered today. :) more on that later.

ok. back to class.

i finally migrated all my RSS feeds from bloglines over to google reader.
im liking it, but noticing that it sometimes freezes up on me. it also seems much slower than bloglines. anyone else notice this? when it freezes i cant get to any other tabs in my browser. ugh. at least they have a mobile version now.

so dell messed up my order on my Nokia N95. ugh. long story short, it wont be here till next wednesday. but, on top of the $70 i talked 'em down initially... i also got a $50 coupon AND a 2GB microSD card. all said & done, i got about $300 off of the total cost of the 2 phones (one for me & allie).

first race back

so i decided i would head up to the NHIS crit and give racing a shot. my last road race was over a year ago, and it ended badly. i have been putting in alot of hours. but they have all been low intensity hours... not the stuff that makes you go fast. josef told me he was coming up, so now i was committed... we line up, and im about to piss myself, im soo nervous. i start at the front, and promply slide to the very back of the pack. haha. that took all of 15 seconds. after a few laps of riding at the back, i was feeling a little more comfortable and started moving up. i knew i dont have the fitness to stay off the front, but decided to try it anyways... hmm. better than i though, but got caught before long. wait a bit.. try again... same result. josef goes... nice. once they start to want to chase him, i go to the front and block. odd, they seemed to all line up behind me thinking i was going to chase.. umm no? anyways, worked like a charm, and josef stayed away for a while. i moved up in the last lap, and finished in the top10.

bad news is that my lungs were hurting. i got home and was wheezing bad. ugh. woke up this morning with a baaad headache. ugh.

anyways, it was fun to race with josef again.. and although i didnt have any high-intensity power, i was encouraged to see that i could still hang based solely on my base-level fitness... thats a good sign of things to come :)

i really dont have that much going on in my life at the moment..but i am constanatly feeling overwhelmed. very overwhelmed. i feel like i never have enough time to get the shite done that i need to do... and then when i do have some free time, the last thing i want to do is something stupid like washing dishes, paying bills or showering. ugh. i feel like i need a month long vacation. having this wednesday off will do nothing for me...

i have been here already for 10 1/2 hours... and i will be here for another couple hours... i gotta meet someone at 6pm to go over server issues ugh. and you know what i have gotten done?? NOTHING. i cant focus. im unmotivated and im bored with my work. ugh.

so i know everyone is wondering about my cell phone situation. haha. well, i decided i am going to sell my N75. i cant get used to the flip phone. plus the camera isnt all i had hoped for. especially after looking at the pictures from the N95. they are soo crisp. so thats the plan. sell the N75 and remorgage my condo to pay for the N95. much to my surprise, allie saw the N75 pictures and now she wants one!! i almost cried when she said that. now we will be a real nokia couple. yay.

we did go to this AWESOME vegan cafe yesterday. it was insanely good. I will safe details for a later post.. but it was soooooo freakin good.