No one is safe from Fun Guv's candid camera...

Alas, poor Jimmy is too young to realize the embarrassment of being secretly video taped by his mother. He was auditioning for his sister. American Idol....here we come.

...Or Dancing with the Stars....i've been teaching Jimmy some nice moves, eh?

Unfortunately, i've been too busy at work to update much lately, ha ha, righhhttt. Like eveybody wants a new mortgage for the Holidays. No, it's been more of a crappy computer fighting me at every attempt to post something new..

Anyway, on to the running update.

i have a 3 day streak going of 8, 4, 4.5 miles. Not sure if i can go much longer due to scheduling around Christmas. In the next 5 days, 3 evenings are tied to office/family parties and the other nights are nights of bartending. I'll try to squeeze in a short run or two.

i think i can get a nice Christmas Eve morning run, and i can't wait for the look on Fun Guv's face when i lace up the shoes Christmas day. So much for a surprise now as she is sure to read this.

i never have learned to ask for forgiveness instead of permission. major flaw, but at the tender age of 38, not one to easily change.

I would like to get another 4-8 miles in this week to get back to the 20 + miles a week routine. Weather has been great for early winter, and i haven't been nearly hit by a car in a week.

My new years resolution, stop punching, kicking, yelling, whatever... at cars that nearly hit me. It's true, i'm gonna be a kinder, gentler Mike. After all, What would Dean do? Doesn't that sound a lot better on a runners wristband than Livestrong?

From now on i'm just gonna smile and wave. honest. i mean it. But it's a new years resolution, so you never know....

And i have taken the smoking counter off the blog. Cause, i don't think i need it. i'm still not smoking, although i did have a few smokes over a few beers last weekend. OK not a great thing, but a great thing was that i didn't rush out and buy smokes after having a couple. A month ago, no way, i'd be on my second pack by now.

Lastly, i have a running partner. Fun Guv has cousin who lives close and has decided to start running. So, i have been helping him find a running store for shoes, finding websites to assist his running questions, and we have gone out twice this week running together. He has a bit of an athletic background, so i am sure i'll be eating his dust soon.

For now, the company is great, and although we've taken more walk breaks than i usually do, the pace has been a pleasant, build a base, pace. He's already talking of marathoning at the Bayshore and Chicago. He watched a little of the DVD from Chicago and fell in love. Not with me, the Chicago marathon....

...Could be he figures this guy, me, 15 years older and out of shape did it, so can he.....

Cause that's what i'm all about, y'know making the world a better place for the next generation....

Thanks for reading, watching, listening, etc....