The last 2 weeks I’ve been back running and loving it. I was averaging about 4 miles per day at a pretty easy pace (didn’t want to push it). Over the weekend I started feeling a pain on the outside of my left knee. After doing some Internet searching it I’m pretty sure I have Iliotibial Band Syndrome. Even though its sort of painful I’m really hoping this is correct because it is not a “structural” injury to the knee, but rather an inflammation of a ligament that runs from your quad around your knee and attaches in the middle of the shin. Runners see this when they rapidly change their workout regimen, or in my case start it all together. So I’m playing it safe icing my knee for 10 minutes every hour, taking IB Profin every 4 hours and not running for a few days. Something all the websites seemed to stress is you really don’t want to run through the pain because it can turn it from a very treatable inflammation to serious knee injury. Considering I just spent 2 years trying to get my knees healthy again I’ll take the advice.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Iliotibial Band Syndrome
Saturday, March 25, 2006
The great exodus
The exodus has started. Today I really hunkered down and started packing for our move in 2 weeks. I can’t believe how much stuff we have, especially since I actually haven’t seen a lot of this stuff since we last moved!
Jay is Engaged!
Something that I completely forgot to blog about is Jay (Pimp-Daddy) Hudec is engaged to Laura. The only information I have was that they were on a vacation in Hawaii and he popped the question. I’m really happy for Jay and Laura and can’t wait to learn more about the whole engagement.
When I first arrived at Baylor Jay was one of the first people to reach out and welcome me into the band and into Kappa Kappa Psi (Band fraternity). After college we lived together through the fall of the telecom market in Dallas (a good part of that time we spent unemployed). It was hard work spending all day by the apartment pool and harassing Dan’s miniature panther.
Congrads again Jay and Laura!
[UPDATE] Jay and Laura’s Engagement Announcement
Monday, March 20, 2006
We got our crib
With much thanks to my parents for covering the bill Kerry and I ordered the baby crib this weekend. The one we initially ordered was discontinued so we went with our second choice. We got the Highland Park Crib in the natural color. Personally I like this one better since it’s a little smaller and seems a lot sturdier. The important things we were looking for were a side that drops down so Kerry can reach over the side and that it not be made out of pine (we hear kids like to chew). We are really excited and the nice thing is the store agreed to keep it for a few weeks so when we move we can just pick it up on the moving truck.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
29 Week Ultrasound
Last Friday Kerry and I went to another ultrasound appointment. After doing some measurements Baby Duty looks perfect, right down the 50% on all marks. Since this was a really fast one we only got one picture. This is by far the pest profile we have of his face yet.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Digital Cannon Rebel XT
We decided to take the Digital Cannon Rebel XT out for a test spin. The detail is amazing, and it should be at 8 megapixels. Each picture avaraged at around 3 MB each!
More Digital Cannon Rebel XT Pictures
Open Source Project
I’ve been toying with starting an open source project, to eventually leads to some sort of monetary revenue source. I like the open source business model that companies like Logicblaze (ActiveMQ and SertviceMix) and JBoss have going. When looking at my career, I’ve pretty much spent my entire time creating middleware or content repositories. Both of which have JSRs defined and in use. The middleware market has some pretty big players so I think I’ll stay away from that. But the content repository market really has very few people, especially people who are JUST offering a content repository. The JCP spec is JSR-170 and it is pretty interesting. Anyone want to help
