I'm network-free... Thanks, Comcast! :/

Celebrating my 34th New Hampshire-versary today

Graduation day!!

My shoes are on vacation

Sherry: "Your shoes must be on vacation."

Me: "What?"

Sherry: "That's not where they live."

Ha ha ha ha ha!

I misspelled "retarted" - ha ha ha

Go ahead and search for "dilithium crystal spill" -- you won't find it in Google or Yahoo or Bing.

Do I smell a cover-up?

Macaroni and Cheese

Here's my very special recipe for macaroni and cheese. I keep mistyping macarone instead of macaroni. What's up with that?

Anyway, here's what you need:

• some cooked macaroni -- any leftover pasta will do
• a slice of American cheese, enough to cover your macaroni

And here are the so-called cooking instructions:

1. Put the pasta in a microwave-safe bowl. Plastic = fail.
2. Add the cheese on top.
3. Place the bowl in the microwave and press the "minute" button. I almost forgot to put "minute" in quotes and then you would have been looking for a really tiny button. But I digress.
4. Stir until the pasta is all cheesy. If the pasta isn't cheesy enough, use more cheese next time. Or less pasta. I really can't tell you how to live your life.

Enjoy!

Should I eat my lemon yogurt now or save it for tomorrow? Decisions, decisions.

Me and my dog -- I mean, phone

Can you see my dog on the screen? That's Trot! He says "woof!" (He says that a LOT.)

The Race!

The Sparkler 5K in Merrimack was kind of my official marathon training kickoff, and I finished in 22:27. Yay, me!

Now to fill out one of those forms and figure out what I need to be doing for the next (eek!!!) 17 weeks...

5K race prep

ran 5K on the treadmill at race pace (7:30) and finished in 23:07 (A shoes)

last quarter mile/tenth/.05, cranked the speed up to 8/9/9.5 (mph)

IT band feels fine

Let the training begin!

I'll be running in the Sparkler 5K in Merrimack on Saturday to kick off my marathon training.

BYKI UPDATE!!

Hey, do you know about the Byki update? Check it out over at byki iPhone Apps!

Oh yes you know you want to!!

SNOT: Social Network Optimization Technician

You heard it here first, folks. There's a new kind of spammer on the block. No, I'm not talking about celebrities promoting their latest project.

You know the type: they're always there, always retweeting, always trying to get noticed. They're doing all the right things to claw their way to the top of the social networking food chain.

They're social network optimization technicians. Yes, they're SNOTs.

I don't even know if they're nerds. They're just self-promoting leeches stuck to the hull of this latest ship of 'net.

What? I can just un-follow them? I know, if only life were so simple. Anyway, they're out there, the SNOTs -- enjoy them! :)

what's with the fancy lunches?

welcome to my new food blog where you can read all about my lunch. ok, maybe I don't officially get to call myself a food blogger, but I am willing to share the secret of how I get to have such fancy lunches.

come closer so I can use my culinary secrets voice. ok, good.

well first of all, today's lunch is chickpeas and spinach with red curry over rice.

"but Dave, how can I prepare something so fancy?" I will pretend you are asking me.

yes, if you took some red curry paste and just stirred it around in the spinach, that would be gross. no, that's not what we're talking about. the secret is the coconut milk.

"but Dave, how do I..."

SILENCE, I'M GETTING TO THAT! (sheesh!)

I would take a picture, but I'm too... well, "lazy" is the only word that comes to mind. so we'll all have to rely on our mind's-eye-camera, ok?

imagine one of those plastic shoe boxes -- yes, that's the kind I'm talking about -- and into it you put a bunch of those three-ounce Dixie bathroom cups.


ok ok ok, here's a picture.

now open up a can of coconut milk and fill up the little bitty cups with just enough for your own personal-sized serving and then... ::drumroll:: put the shoebox in the freezer!

I've got these little frozen coco-cups in the freezer in the kitchen at work and whenever I want some curry I defrost it in the microwave, mix in the curry paste, and voilà!

ok, so now you know all my secrets... well not all of them, I've got this great noodle recipe I posted on my old blog once upon a time. yes, some day...

Welcome, Tweeps!

Did I say that right? :)

I'm restarting this here blog, mostly as a place to hang my tw-hat.

And so I can have t place to say this:

If you follow me, I promise I will look at your twitter feed.

If you have no updates, or if it's clear that you're some kind of SEO/marketing type just trying to up your numbers, I will block you. Perhaps there is some place in twitter-hell for you, I can only hope.

If, on the other hand, you are an interesting person -- hell, even if you're just an ordinary person not trying to claw your way to the top of the tw-heap, I may just follow you back!

And that's the tw-ruth!

Originally posted 4/16/09.

Updated 4/27/09...

If you use software that lets you pre-tweet, I will probably block you.

If you tweet automatically from your rss feed, I might use my rss reader instead of Twitter to follow you.