14 days until I fly to SLC for Moon Lake!

How to Practice Nonviolent Communication

<-- A trainer communicating with Shamoo.

Ka chow. Lightning McQueen.

A small virtual tour of some notable places to see in my town:

My favorite place to buy cargo pants.

Where my wife and I went on our first date.

My favorite place to see the ocean on both sides of the road.

May favorite place to get Chinese food and donuts.

I could do this all night. Ohh man.

The world keeps getting smaller.

Holy crap. I just found the coolest thing that one of my favorite websites ever has done. Well, maybe it is not the coolest thing. But in my opinion it is pretty rad.
An example of how rad this may be.
CLICK HERE
Now just click on the little orange guy.
This building on the north side of the road is…… tah dah! Where I work. Now you know what it looks like.
You can take a virtual tour of the planet just so long as you stay on the roads with blue outlines. Awesome huh? Okay, ya got me. It is not the planet, but it is still awesome.
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Think big

June 16, 2008
This past week has been an interesting one to say the least. I just feel really grown up I guess. I have scheduled appointment with a chiropractor and an eye doctor. I have paid all of my bills. I have been exercising regularly. I got a raise at work. No promotion with the raise yet, but a raise all the same. I have started to train two people to take my spot for when I do get a promotion. That makes it feel promising. I have accumulated enough vacation hours to get paid for the whole week that I am at Moon Lake.
Hmm. It sounds much smaller in print than it was when I was doing it. Maybe that is why I don’t blog so much sometimes.

Where does awesome come from?

Today I started training to run a marathon. I ran two miles. My legs are a little sore... Let me back up. Last Sunday Kristin and I volunteered at the Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon. It was a semi-spiritual experience I must admit. We were at a water station between mile 16 and mile 17. I got goose bumps when the wheelchair racers came by. It was like those times in church when I almost cry but don’t. Seriously amazing stuff. That got me thinking, “hmm, maybe I can run one of these.” Anyway, after about four hours of holding cups out for marathoners, it was over. We started to clean up. The first thing my wife said to me was “Would you want to run this with me next year?” There you have it. The next day while I was at work my wife diligently looked up training plans and schedules, and my first marathon will be in about eight months. I think I will end up running a 5k and a half marathon between now and then, but I am not quite sure. Today was my first day training with my wife. We had fun. I never thought one of my grown up hobbies would be running. Who knew?
Something else cool that has happened in the last week is that I bought my plane tickets for “Moon Lake 08.” Awesome. I am so pumped I cannot even handle it.
I feel like something else amazing has happened, but I cannot remember what. I guess that will have to come later.
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