Andrew Ferguson
Rejecting Your Reality and Substituting My Own Since 1986
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One of the great things about my new place is how close I am to Green Lake. One of my goals for coming back to Seattle and being in The Real World™ is to exercise. I tried it a year ago with CrossFit, and had mixed success. I was able to find the time to do it, but I didn’t have any idea of what I was doing. This may have contributed to my numb hand incident last year, which I eventually was resolved with a little bit of PT, however I had lost my exercise momentum.
But, this is a new year! And it would be a shame to waste Green Lake’s paths at 5am in the morning. Running seems like a pretty easy thing that I already know how to do (no special training required, although I did run track for a season back In The Day™). So I get up, drag my self out of bed (sometimes with the assistance of Ben or Quinn, who have each run with me once – although Quinn did it with me on a mid-Sunday morning), and run.
I ran two days last week and did not get around the lake either time. I ran yesterday with Quinn and today by myself and managed to get around both times[1]! The sun has barely started to rise and the air is nice and cool, making for ideal running conditions (for me at least).
If I can keep this up for the rest of the week, I’m planning on getting a Nike + iPod gadget that links my shoe to my iPod. My iPod will then be able to give me real time feedback on how far I’ve run, my pace, time elapsed, calories burned, etc…all to music! Anyone have any experience using the Nike + iPod and want to weigh in on it’s effectiveness?
Anyway, most mornings I’m out the door by 5:05am. If anyone wants to run with me, meet me in front of my building. If you know for sure that you want to run, try to give me a heads up the day before so I can let you know if I’m running or not the next morning.
Hopefully I can stick with this.
- getting around is not the problem, getting around in time to get ready for work so I can catch the carpool is the problem [↩]
Tags: Ben Andersen, Case of the Numb Hand, CrossFit, Green Lake, Nike + iPod, Quinn McGinnis, running
Dateline: Berlin, Day 2 – Sandeman Tour, Again
Berlin, Germany
31 July 2009
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Tags: Berlin, Charlie Wyman, Germany, Quinn McGinnis, Sandeman's New Berlin Free Tour, SANDEMANs, Travel the World
Dateline: Krakow, Day 3 – Schindler’s Factory
Krakow, Poland
29 July 2009
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Tags: Charlie Wyman, Krakow, Poland, Quinn McGinnis, Schindler's List, train, Travel the World
Dateline: Krakow, Day 1
Krakow, Poland
27 July 2009
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Tags: Charlie Wyman, Krakow, Poland, Quinn McGinnis, Travel the World
Dateline: Prauge, Day 4 – Kafka
Prauge, Czech Republic
23 July 2009
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Tags: Charlie Wyman, Czech Republic, Prague, Quinn McGinnis, Travel the World
Dateline: Prauge, Day 2 – Sandeman’s Tour
Prauge, Czech Republic
21 July 2009
Justin from Sandeman’s New Prague Free Tour took us on a 3-hour walking tour that covered things such as:
- Old Town Square
- St. Nicolas’ Church
- Church of Our Lady before Tyn
- Kinsky Palace
- Statue of Jan Hus
- House of the Black Madonna & Museum of Cubisim
- Powder Tower
- Art Nouveau Municipal House
- Czech National Bank
- Wenceslas Square
- Estates Theatre (First Mozart Performance)
- Astronomical Clock
- Kafka Statue
- Maiselova Street & Old Jewish Quarter
- Rudolfinum – Czech Philharmonic
- Prague Castle & St. Vitus
- Karlov Most – Charles Bridge
- WWII – Prague Uprising
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Tags: Czech Republic, Prauge, Quinn McGinnis, Sandeman's New Prague Free Tour, SANDEMANs, Travel the World
Dateline: Prauge, Day 1 – Getting There
Prauge, Czech Republic
20 July 2009
The thing that sucks the most about traveling by train is that it can take all..
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…day…
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…long.
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Tags: Budapest, Czech Republic, Hungary, Prauge, Quinn McGinnis, Slovakia, train, travel, Travel the World
Dateline: Budapest, Day 2 – Exploring
Budapest, Hungary
19 July 2009
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Tags: boat, Budapest, Danube, Hungary, Quinn McGinnis, river, Travel the World
Dateline: Budapest, Day 1 – Bussing Around Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
18 July 2009
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Tags: Budapest, bus, Hungary, Quinn McGinnis, sightseeing, Travel the World
Dateline: Vienna, Day 3 – The United Nations
Vienna, Austria
17 July 2009
There was really just one thing left to do before leaving, visit the UN and the IAEA[1]. So we made off for the northeast end of Vienna. On the way we managed to find Puntigamer, an Austrian beer that my friend Marissa suggested we look up.
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This is the logo for the China National Space Agency. Is it just me, or does this look rather similar to the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet emblems put together:
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IAEA Meeting Room
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Can you understand me now? Good.
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Our host was nice, but very optimistic about the United Nations efforts. I wish we still had the League of Nations if only for the reason that it had a cooler name.
We made our way back to the hostel, collected our things, and then raced[2] to catch our next rain to Budapest.
It so happened that Charlie was also coming in from Switzerland right around the time we were leaving. I was secretly hoping that we would see Charlie and kidnap him. Unfortunately, we didn’t see him.
We got into Budapest late at night. We stumbled around while trying to find an ATM so I could get some Forint[3]. We finally managed to find an ATM and withdraw some money. A short subway ride later, we at our hostel.
- International Atomic Energy Agency [↩]
- if you haven’t figured out by now, we always race to catch trains. We always caught them, but were usually within 5 minutes of missing them [↩]
- yet another unit of money to deal with [↩]
Tags: Austria, beer, Charlie Wyman, China National Space Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency, League of Nations, Marissa P, Puntigamer, Quinn McGinnis, Star Trek, Starfleet, Travel the World, United Federation of Planets, United Nations, Vienna