Half way into the second loop around the neighborhood last Saturday morning, I think to myself, “I just want to go home.” Things begin to warm up as the sun climbs higher into the sky. People are doing their routes on the opposite side of the road. I think of how it will feel doing four loops around the neighborhood instead of two. Will it be any cooler outside? Probably not.
If I head out the door by 6 a.m., I should be finished by 8 a.m. The time required to do laps around the neighborhood grows over the next several months and by September if I leave at the same time, I should be done by 10 a.m.
One of the new folks who started working last week attempted an ultra in 2009. His first name is a bit unusual so I Googled him out of curiosity. Mention of the ultra is listed in the About section of his blog. Although he quit half way into it due to foot problems, he traveled twice the distance than I have ever gone. He also encountered flip-flop man in St. Petersburg while preparing for it. He sits in the next building across from mine, in Building One. If you work in that building, chances are at that I won’t see you. I’ll have to introduce myself one of these days.
An abbreviation for Hard Disk Drive. The computer screen glows to life with a task bar at the bottom of the desktop and a dialog message. I must have left the computer on all day again. You can’t tell because it’s just as quiet on as it is off. As the monitor comes to full brightness, I can make out the message better. It reads something to the effect of that I should immediately back up all of my data because the hard drive is going bad. I turn the computer off, wait a few seconds and power it back on. After the computer POSTs with a solid single beep, a text message is displayed. The white text tells me that my hard drive…