By my count I am closing in on 60 hours of work this week.  This is not a typical week for me… for which I am very thankful.  If all goes well, the week will be worth it in the near future.  Monday the Marathon training starts.  It looks as though my pastor has deciding to run it with me.  This is exciting because I will have someone to run with on the long runs, someone to keep me accountable and on-track, and someone that understands when I complain about the aches and pains.  Right now we have not set any pace goals for the marathon.  It is more about getting to the finish line for us.

It has been a whirlwind couple of days and today looks like it will be another.  Went to Texas and back on Tuesday for meetings then was in the Bored Room (that is the actual spelling) from 10:00a until 12:00a yesterday working on something I cannot talk about here… yet.  The bummer is that I missed the last 2 days of running and I have this new watch that I want to test the functions out on.  Hopefully I will get a chance to run tonight.   Marathon training starts in 4 days.  Anyone interested in running this with me?

Yesterday the band at church covered the Beatles and played “Can’t Buy Me Love” to end the Debt Free Acworth series.  I enjoy going to a church where they are willing to do different things and aren’t afraid to step outside of the box.  Pastor JR also gave a simple message on tithing that even a five year old could probably understand.  If you missed it you can get it off the podcast later this week.

Saturday I was able to go and buy the Garmin Forerunner 405 running watch that I have been wanting for the last several months.  I had told my wife that if I sold my drum set and r/c plane that I was going to get it.  I gave it a test run in a walk around my cul-de-sac on Saturday night and was impressed with the results.  It even located the satellites from inside the house.  Sunday evening I wore the watch to play soccer with a group of guys in the neighborhood.  Here is the result:

According to the watch I played for 1:20:00 and ran 3.48 miles.  Judging from the picture above, the data the watch creates is pretty accurate. I am looking forward to trying the watch out tonight on an actual run.

On Thursday afternoon Ron and I left work a little early and headed to a Saxby Chambliss rally.  Having never been to a political rally before I was interested in seeing what happens.  Essentially it is just a giant pep rally.  Most the people in the room were huge Saby fans, which Ron and I are not, that wanted to clap at every other word that he said.  Saxby said that he will support Obama on the things that will help Georgians and oppose him on thigs that won’t.  The things he said he will vote “NO” on are higher taxes, universal heathcare, bigger government, etc.  The real problem that I face is that I really do not have anyone to vote for in the run-off election.   I cannot vote for Martin because he is an always “yes” vote for Obama policy.  If I vote for Chambliss I have the chance that he will vote “no” when he needs to but with his “yes” vote on the $700B bailout plan I wonder if he thinks before he votes.  To make matter worse I have to vote because I do not want the democrats to get anywhere near the 60 seats they need in order to ram Obama policy through unchecked. In the end I will vote for Chambliss but it a vote under protest.  For the first time in my life I really feel like I am choosing to vote for the lesser of the two evils.

The media keeps talking about how Obama is going to inherit two wars and a global economic crisis. How true is this statement? Yes, Obama will inherit an economic crisis… at least on a national level. But is it really two wars? The war has always been called the “war on terrorism” not the “war in Iraq” and “the war in Afghanistan”. So is this two wars or one war on two fronts? Was WWII one war or multiple wars… “the war against Germany” and “the war against Japan” for example. Maybe this is just another example of media slant. What do you think?