{"id":2189,"date":"2008-03-17T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2008-03-17T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:58:00","slug":"running-and-other-recent-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Running and other recent exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Well, tuesday I swam 1km.  That is a pathetically short distance, fyi.  Barely more than a warmup from high school.  But I only had 25ish minutes, so there you go.  (dinner at Nick&#8217;s)\n<li>Saturday, I made it late to front runners, and decided to go for low speed distance.  6.5ish miles in about 1 hour and 15 minutes.  Long distance (for me, perhaps the longest I&#8217;ve run in my life at one go) and definitely low speed.  By the end I was feeling it more in my knees than my calves, but I was definitely done.\n<li>Today, I ran ~2.5 miles in under 25 minutes.  Still not fast, and not very long either.  Sad.  Faster than most of the people on the indoor track though, which leaves me somewhat unimpressed.\n<li>And a fair amount of biking as transportation in there too.  <\/ul>\n<p><!--more Sunday was board games-->Sunday was board games.  I invited James along to &#8220;straight&#8221; board gaming night, which as Spencer noted, seems to be trending less and less straight.  We played 2x race for the galaxy.  James won with a military (?) strategy.  Then Pitt won the next one with a novelty goods strategy.  I sucked it both times.  I enjoy the game even if I suck at it.  (Better at developing an economy than at making points, see also my repeated, insane choice of the factory over the harbor in Puerto Rico) <\/p>\n<p>Next we played Pandemic, a WHO fights diseases game.  It was kind of fun.  Not very challenging the way we played it on the level we played it at.  I find it vaguely unsatisfying as I often do player-v-the-game type games.  But it&#8217;s better than shadows over camelot.  I think I like Betrayal at house on the hill a little better.  But they are very different games.<\/p>\n<p>We closed out with Thebes, an archeology themed game.  I came in a close second to Pitt on that one.  I knew egypt and palestine better than anyone, but Pitt knew how to dig and put on exhibitions.  He just never did the public speaking deal.  <\/p>\n<p>Tonight was dinner with Krista and Nathaniel.  I showed up sweaty from running, and 6 minutes late.  We had a mostly vegan meal, and Nathaniel expressed a willingness to do it again.  My shepherd&#8217;s pie had mashed potatoes that were dyed green.  We talked about the usual.  I won&#8217;t be seeing them for a couple weeks.  They&#8217;re going to go do good deeds in Louisiana next week, which I think is pretty awesome.  And &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow after work I fly out to DC.  I&#8217;ll be mixing work and union business.  As chair of the constitution committee for our newly elected union I get the honor of presenting the first stage of our deliberations on the Constitution.  Should be interesting.  (did I mention that out of our 39 members, I was the most marginally elected, by 1 vote?  And now I&#8217;m chairing the committee that&#8217;s handling the central task before us.  Wackass shit, that.)  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m staying with one of my fellow union folks and his enviro-non-profit-VIP wife.  I&#8217;ll get to see Rashmi again.  I&#8217;m sure there will be drinks with some of the union folks on wednesday.  Thursday, I&#8217;m having an early happy hour with the GLBT crowd in HQ.  Friday I have no plans yet.  Saturday I&#8217;m hanging out with <lj user=mai_neh> and <lj user=grok>. <lj user=radicalnerdgirl> and I have vague plans to hang out at some point, as well as <lj user=sister_devora> and <lj user=pedropadrao><\/p>\n<p>I take off late Sunday afternoon.  Should be an interesting trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, tuesday I swam 1km. That is a pathetically short distance, fyi. Barely more than a warmup from high school. But I only had 25ish minutes, so there you go. (dinner at Nick&#8217;s) Saturday, I made it late to front runners, and decided to go for low speed distance. 6.5ish miles in about 1 hour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running and other recent exploits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}