Let's just get right into it.

I've been doing cross this season again (3rd year), and have been able to do 5 of the 8 races so far. The weekend after next is the series finale down in at Kelley Creek. I've been doing about as well as I always do, which is to say midpack. I'm still fighting the mental game of being ultra competitive and the physical game of actually getting into really good shape. One thing that was sort of cool was a couple races ago I won a pair of Northwave Kameleon shoes. Quite a surprise, and a total random drawing.

I don't really talk about work here, and I'll continue that. However, I'll give mad props to my coworkers, I love working with them. In the new gadgets department, I scored a Cingular 8125 and the previous generation iPod Nano. With the new phone, I'll get a chance to explore some mobile development and see what's up with that.

I was down and out with a cold recently, so I was able to catch up on some movies ( 40 yr old virgin, Mission Impossible 3, Clerks 2, Serenity, and DaVinci Code).

In more related biking news, I've finally broke the 5,000 miles in a year mark. I passed it last week and I'll have to fess up that about 350 of those miles are on the trainer. This is the 3rd year I've been shooting for this, and now that I've done it it feels a bit anticlimatic. I think it is because around August I realized I was going to make it. In any sense, it doesn't feel like that much anymore, so I'm continuing down the dangerous must-always-improve path of seeking 10,000 in a year by 2008.

The winter months have also brought the start of the Indoor time trials, I've done one (with almost exact results to the last one done in March) and I'm scheduled for every other Tuesday, January through March.

Nothing much going on in the side-project scene. I'm going to be decommissioning Podfeeder.com shortly after the new year. I just don't have time for it and it's lost it's glimmer (in my eye anyway). I've got a few ideas but we'll see how things go.

I've very recently signed up with Twitter which is an online status system. You can IM/SMS/Web/Email what you're doing (in short 165 char bursts) to let people know what you're up to. May sound funky, but for friends/family it sort of opens up the next level of communication/networking. If you consider what they're doing, and how they're doing it, it opens up some pretty interesting uses.