Chris's Musings

Well friends, I had my final visit (I hope) to Dr. Peebles today and got the go-ahead to start ramping up my running. Good thing, because on June 1, 2011, otherwise known as National Runners Day, I registered for the inaugural Savannah Rock and Roll 1/2 Marathon on November 5th.  A $13 discount from Competitor.com had something to do with my getting signed up then :-).  My goal is to start going into "training mode" for the race in early-to-mid August. Interestingly enough, when I was at the L.A. Rock and Roll (also an inaugural), marathon record-holder Deena Castor was speaking to a group and encouraged everyone to think of the "next goal" you have... to have something greater in front of you. For me... it is to finish this next race without any injury, without walking, and to bust my PR of 2:32 wide open. Now this will be the third race I've run so the third time is a charm, right? My goal:  2:10 - stretch, under 2 hours. But for now, I am going to c

I've been thinking about this recently, and a conversation I had with a married friend of mine about this topic got me thinking about the "F-word" in relationships.  You know it. "Let's be..."  (I can see you cringing now :-) ) Friends. My friend told me, "You know that once you're friends you never get back."  That may be true, but sometimes when you're interested in, or have gone out with a great girl a couple of times and "something" is not right which you can't put your finger on - sometimes surrendering the romantic is the right thing to do.  Obviously, there is risk to it, but it is in my opinion the most honoring thing to do for the other person too. Even if it may be the "kiss of death."  Perhaps this is why I'm still single.  Ha!  I'll get to that in a second. Being an expert on being friends with women (in my own mind), in my opinion there are four or five "friend dynamics" (from

Several years ago, I had made fun of a friend of mine that, on our group ski trips would insist on going snowboarding even though for three consecutive years she would get injured.  From my recollection, the injuries were: A foot broken in several places An ACL tear (and I can't remember what the third was, nor can I perfectly recall the order) And this girl was a pretty good skiier, but she insisted on going boarding despite the ribbing and the, as I can imagine, frequent trips to the hospital. Well, I can understand it now... Guess what friends?  I've signed up for my next Half Marathon. This is after, Silver Comet race - torn miniscus... surgery.  L.A. Rock and Roll - painful achilles tendonitis... finally able to run after 7 months and a lot of chiropractor and pediatrist visits.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can finish this year injury free?   But am I a glutton for punishment?   Maybe.   But I get what my friend (who still boards, and has managed t

I don't know if you saw this post from Tyler Stanton, but I thought it was pretty hilarious.  Not only because of it's obvious snarkiness, but also because it's pretty obvious that I'd probably not impress Tyler (me being the movie line quoting, Android phone carrying, theologically minded guy that I am).  But I laughed, so I gave it the fanfare that a great post is due.  Here is the link, in case you haven't seen it. http://www.tylerstanton.com/2011/06/06/16-things-that-dont-impress-me/ I've actually thought about posting my own, but I think I'd rather ponder what actually DOES impress me (even though in Henry Cloud's "Nine Things" chapter about "hating well," what we dislike (aka - doesn't impress us) is an indication of what we value).  If you don't really care about impressing me, then you can ignore the rest of this blog, but in case you're curious then you can read on... :-) Things that impress me in general 1

I really can't leave my last post hanging.  You have to be wondering by now, whatever came of your "Bad Apple  Experience?"  Are you a Windows guy now? The answer is... No!  I'm still a Mac guy.  And I'm happy. After noodling over the situation and soliciting the advice of friends over Facebook, I decided to try to get to a customer care person and explain my situation.  A buddy that had worked for Apple for 3 years gave me some advice that if I can get to the right people they can make some things happen. So - I tried, and tried to call.  The support line was strictly a computer, and it didn't really lead me anywhere.  Funny thing about a large company with a lot of raving fans... they think no one complains.  Funny, huh?  I tried three times to get past the computer bouncer, to no avail. So when you want to complain to a person, what do you do?  You tell the computer that you want to buy something. Salesperson is now on... live human at your servic