It’s funny, a year ago today I was looking forward to my trip to Ireland and was gainfully employed.
A year later, I’m searching and applying for jobs and wishing I was back in Ireland! How fun would it be to be in downtown Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day? Wow. I couldn’t imagine the fun.
And the Guinness. Oh my!
I’m having problems writing cover letters. I don’t know why. I’ve spent so many years of my life writing about other people. Why can’t I write about myself to sell a potential employer on what I can do for them? I can’t figure it out. I’ve gotten decent feedback from people who have read my covers who said they are pretty good. But, I’m not getting calls. I don’t know if it’s a time thing. Or the cover. Or my resume. Or something else.
<sigh>
I’ll keep plugging along. I am close to getting one application out today. I have several jobs printed out and want to have covers and resumes sent to each one by the end of the week.
But these covers… ugh.
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So I’ve slacked on the Couch-to-5K program.
That’s one of the reasons I didn’t set a certain date for finishing or a certain 5K I wanted to run. Instead, I kept it in my head that I just wanted to be able to run 5K and maybe do one by the end of the summer.
I still think that’s doable.
But the reality is, I can’t be doing this C25K on a treadmill, which is what I’ve been doing. It’s boring. It hurts my feet. I get annoyed and I start counting down the times that I’m on there.
The gym, for now on for me, will be used to use the elliptical machines, maybe a warmup on the treadmill and lifting.
Running has to be taken outdoors.
So as soon as the weather changes for good for the better, I’m going to start taking the C25K outdoors and hope I can complete the program. I might do a couple of the things on the treadmill between now and the better weather, but not the three times a week. It just kills. I know if I do it outside, it’s a lot different.
Speaking of cardio stuff, I’m taking my bike over to the shop sometime this week to get a tuneup. I imagine I’ll get it back in a week or so and then I’m going to get riding it several times a week. I want to get a bike computer (I found a pretty good Schwinn one for about 15 bucks on Amazon) to keep mileage and such like that, so I’ll be looking into that.
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Turns out something is up with my domains.
I got an e-mail today from the company I host several of my websites through. Apparently one of the domains, of which I haven’t done anything with in a long time (it was for our caching group in this area, but nobody ever really went to it) had somehow been hacked and was being used for spam.
So they sent an e-mail of a warning.
Then shut me off.
I had to go through a bunch of e-mail exchanges and such to try and get my site back. In the end, they lifted the suspension and I deleted the said domain and everything else off my account. I was going to let the site expire soon enough anyway, so no biggie.
I just hope I don’t have to deal with that again.
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I think I’m going to cut this one short right now. Just not into it tonight. Had a few other things come up and my mind is all over the place.
More later!
Start with a 3K run for SADD in Oneonta Sunday April 3rd… your neice is involved.. she would run with you…..
Investigate whether you can use your geocaching GPS for your bike computer. I use my Garmin Map 60CSx trip functions to record max speed, avg speed and distance. Plus you can download the track and see the elevation profile, something you could never do with a bike computer. We’ve had bike computers for our boys over the years and they usually have a life of 12 – 18 months. I’ve had the same GPS for almost 6 years now and carry it on a handlebar mount when cycling. Just a thought…
Joe — I won’t be ready to run a 3K in a couple of weeks.
Mrs. GeoK — Interesting idea. I have the same GPS, but don’t know all the functions with the speeds and distance. And I’m not sure what I would do to download everything.But… It’s something I’ll look into for sure. Thanks for the idea!
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing – don’t spend the $, just use ur gps! Real fun to look at the tracks and whatnot!
Oh and you can download your tracks and them upload them right into daily mile. Also, if you have a smart phone you could probably find some kind of app for mileage too….
A few things from my noodle:
1. Cover letters are hard to write. I hate writing them. I have no idea why I find it so difficult, but I do. I definitely feel your pain.
2. I have absolutely no prob being on an elliptical for 30, 40 minutes. But a treadmill? I get bored out of my mind! What’s up with that?!
p.s. I’m ready to go (back) to Ireland whenever you are.