Three Months Until Marathon

Three Months.



That sounds like a long time. Well, that's how long I have until I run my first AND ONLY marathon. I figure that eventually I will say, "I wish I had run a marathon." You know, just so I could check it off my life's accomplishment list. So, at 36 I figure I really only have a few more years where it will be possible to do without severe trauma.



My training regime is a lot different than most people's would be due to the fact that I have problems with knee, ankle, and foot soreness. Instead of running 5 days a week, which I'm guessing is the normal strategy for those attempting to run a marathon, I'll be running only 2 times per week and biking and swimming 3 times per week.



Naturally, my pure running strength will suffer. I'm ok with that. I'm not trying to run the marathon fast. In fact, I only want to finish in 7 hours, which is the time limit. So, I'll be in good enough shape to do that by then. I won't have many running miles under my belt, but I'll have enough to will myself through. Or maybe not. Who knows. I've never run 26.2 miles and I don't intend to do so until that potentially fateful day.



God Bless.

Randy Pausch

As many of you know, Randy Pausch died this week.



The way he handled his final few months brings me to tears. Joyful and sorrowful tears simultaneously. Joyful because he was a guy that rose to prominence for doing something good. Sorrowful because this guy is terrific and we need more guys like that, and sorrowful because I don't feel like I'm taking my "final days" by the horns like he did. Sure, I have far more final days, but they are final.



I, and everyone out there, has very few days. I, for one, have squandered at least two-thirds of mine. Please, forgive me Lord Jesus. I pray that I won't squander such a large percentage going forward.



God Bless and follow Randy's example. Sieze the day.

Batman and I finally called one correctly

My wife and I saw Batman yesterday. It was one of the best movies of all time. I highly recommend it. It is probably too scary for kids but it was really good and my wife liked it a lot also.

In other news, I was finally right with one of my shorter term trades. I sold my Apple shares so that I could buy them back when it dropped and it actually did. I wish I'd done that on Bank of America last month :)

I've been spending the last several weeks setting up an SMS server and it finally looks like it is coming along.

One of these days, I'll focus on these blog posts instead of 4 completely non related topics all written in a boring fashion. Until then, who cares since no one other than me reads it anyway :)


God Bless!

Text Messages, past or future?

I've been programming non stop for about 5 weeks now and I've done several pretty cool things. For one, as I said earlier, I have a completely automated blog post system!

Another thing that I'm really proud of is an SMS message system. I have a system where I can send an SMS message and it will reply to me with information that I specify. So, I can check on any of our companies from anywhere. I don't even need "mobile web", I can now get it all via a simple text message!

But, is this "old tech" and all I've succeeded in doing something that would have been cool 5 years ago? I don't think so. Everyone I've talked to about it has thought it was a pretty good thing.

I like it, and that's probably the most important :)



God Bless!

Bought the iPhone 3G

My wife and I waited a mear 1.5 hours to get our phones. In all honestly if you have the original phone it isn't worth it to pay more and get almost nothing more for the money.

You get 3G which is good if you are actually using it a lot, but that's the only thing new. Everything else comes with the software update.

We upgraded primarily due to the fact that our phones were in pretty bad repair. But, to be honest, I probably would have upgraded anyway :)

God Bless

Figuring out how to work with Google Apps

I spent some time to get Google Apps to communicate directly with my account.

This post, is actually created by me at the command line of my server rather than via the direct Blogger site!

I've done this so that will be easier for me to keep My Blog and "blogger" in sync more easily.

I'm not sure why I'm keeping both going anyway, but I figure it's like owning multiple domain names, no real value, but if people like me didn't do it GoDaddy would go out of business :)

God Bless

Good Week

Stacie figured out how to set up her own web site, StacieTrottier.com. Naturally it is loaded with wedding pictures :)

It was a good week with Garett’s (GarettBerg.com) kids going to camp again this week. They are staying with us for 6 weeks during the summer. It has been fun having them around but definitely different than having the house to ourselves.

Work is going very well, we just started setting up a new client and that is going really well. We have greatly streamlined the process of creating new client accounts and it has really paid off for us.

I am starting to update my main website, BarryTrottier.com, come see it in a couple weeks :)

God Bless