Starting to run

Well, I am making a little progress using Troy’s (via Steve) suggested running method.  I think that if I am patient, I can defeat this shin splint thing.  Two minutes of running followed by two minutes of walking for thirty minutes for another week, followed by a week or two of one minute of walking followed by three minutes of walking will be the plan.  After that, I will see where I am and try to go forward that way.  I am going to try to get the entire family to run a 10K this fall.  I think it would be a lot of fun.  My weight has actually started to come down again, but I think that is due to eating discipline as a result of not having time to eat because I have so much work to do.

In the meantime, lots of summer projects are off to a start.  Kelly, of course, is reading like crazy.  She has discovered that Agatha Christie was just one of four “Queens of Crime”, the other three being Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham. She is now in the middle of a Sayers book, but has big plans for reading the other two. I do not want to steal her thunder, so enough said. Christian, in the meantime, has decided to design a new mono-space font. Very cool. They should start in on their t-shirt design for the big Betty Blonde t-shirt give-away for her one year anniversary coming up once per month starting as soon as the shirts are designed and we have them in hand–stay tuned.  Lorena works on her reupholster job as she has time, but time has been at a premium this last little while with swim team starting, new guitar teacher finding, a weekend trip coming up, and that sort of thing.

As for me, all I seem to have time for is our read alouds and my programming commitments.  It is a good thing that those are the perfect summer projects for the likes of me.