Running

I went for a run today! This is worthy of an exclamation mark because I am outrageously unfit. I'm sort of trying to change that, I think. I'm not too sure what my motives are. What's post-worthy about this is the funky little iPhone app that I used to track my little run. It's called TrailGuru. You run with the app running on your phone, and when you're done you upload it to the website and it plots your route and does all this clever stuff with it. Here is the breakdown. Now, the stats aren't impressive in any way, so don't look too hard at what the numbers actually are, but instead, try to be impressed that you can see them. The Co-Op is 200m higher up than my house. That's information that I didn't know. I'm not too sure that I needed to know, but I think it's fantastic that I can find out. I don't know if I'll manage to keep on running but I did enjoy it and I am a bit fat, so I'll try. If I do any running that's worth shouting about I might even post the routes up here again.

Todo

You may be surprised to hear that I'm organised in any sense of the word, but actually, I am. I'm enough of a loser to keep a todo list on my phone of not only all the things I have to do, but all the movies I have to watch, and books I have to read. Until recently, it was not in a very good state. I assumed that it was normal for someone who looks at a computer screen all day to be unable to read or focus on anything for long after a day's work, but it turns out, I actually just needed glasses. £200-worth of eyewear later, I am able to enjoy everything again and my eyes never hurt late into the night like they used to, so I've been back on the media wagon.

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Stuff's different

Written 03/04/09, on a bus that should have had a wifi connection, but, depressingly, didn't. Dear reader, what a terrible host I've become. Back in the days when I was traveling I was a good blogger, doing my best to keep to some kind of publishing schedule and, I like to think, writing stuff worth reading, but now it seems that I've fallen into inactivity. I'd like to make this something more than a 'sorry for the lack of updates' post, so let me tell you how this all works.

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