tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134682032012-01-27T10:21:10.521-07:00Random thoughts from the fairly ordinary life of a 30-something medical informaticistjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.comBlogger6021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-44867996306620847352012-01-26T11:40:00.000-07:002012-01-26T11:40:05.802-07:00

#6: Something that excites you and fills you with joy. Watching the Utes win A good date A fun concert Having a fun conversation Hearing a favorite song Those are some that came to mind, but also this prompt reminded me of this list that I initially made when I was a missionary, and then added a little to afterward, that is still pretty accurate (car CD players have lost some of their

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#5: Something in life that gives you balance This was an interesting idea for me to think about.  Because first I had to think about whether or not my life actually had balance.  Given that its not something I spend a lot of time thinking about (balance), can I safely assume that my life is in balance?  So to think about what gives me balance (assuming I have it), means looking at areas of my

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#4: Something that is part of your routine that you enjoy In thinking about "my routine", it was kind of hard to narrow it down to things that really felt "routine", you know? Like I enjoy taking myself out for fast food before I go grocery shopping (never want to shop on an empty stomach, right?), but that only happens a couple times a month, so I don't know if that qualifies as routine.  But

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#3: Something with which you struggle Finally an easy one. :) As opposed to having a hard time coming up with things I'm looking forward to or things I regret, things I struggle with seem easy to come by.  Where to begin? :) I struggle with not going to bed as early as I ought to. I usually feel like I could go to bed at ten, but if I miss my window, then I seem to find my second wind and

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-20772808686318274712012-01-14T17:45:00.001-07:002012-01-16T10:35:05.833-07:00

So, I think I've mentioned recently that I was experiencing some issues with my left knee, that brought an end to my goal to run a complete 5K last year. Back in October I went to see a Sports Medicine doctor and he took an ultrasound and found evidence of some scar tissue in my patellar tendon.  I've been going to physical therapy for a while and doing some exercises with the the hope of

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#2: Something you regret not having done last year As I look back at 2011, and think about what I regret not having done, its hard for me to come up with any major regrets. I'm sure that I made plenty of mistakes, but most of them I'm probably not even aware of making, and other things I regret, like the fact that my knee is so screwed up that I'm having to get needles stuck into later this week

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-56330786473753323732012-01-10T10:21:00.001-07:002012-01-11T08:36:50.212-07:00

I always hate to rush into blogging again after posting my Christmas Card, because I like having it at the top of my blog when people come to visit, but at this point I imagine that anyone who wanted to see it has seen it, and the ones who have come back are probably tired of seeing it at this point. :) Anyway, I feel like this blog has become mainly a collection of photos from when I go

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-23495979642777187992011-12-19T10:30:00.000-07:002011-12-19T10:30:53.563-07:00

M  E  R  R  Y   C  H  R  I  S  T  M  A  S ! These Christmas Card blog posts have become something that I probably look forward to more than anyone else does. Why? I guess taking time to look back at the last 12 months and see where life has taken me.  Also, as I get older and time seems to fly past faster and faster each year, looking back over the course of twelve months allows me to

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I know I've already covered all of my recent Hawaiian Thanksgiving, but as a coda of sorts, I wanted to share the story of my redeye flight home.  Generally I am pretty good at sleeping on an airplane.  When I went on my cruise, I think I was the only one of my friends who got a decent night's sleep on our redeye to Miami, and I've redeyed home from Hawaii at least once before.  Generally the

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The big day had finally arrived. Thanksgiving was here!  Food had been preparing since the day before, and it still had a few hours to go in the morning, so we strapped a kayak to the roof the van and cruised over to Kaneohe Bay for some sea kayaking. One of George's coworkers (his boss maybe?) at the clinic has a place there with a nice launching spot, and also another kayak that they were kind

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Wednesday seems like it must have been a fairly laidback day as I don't remember much from the morning. Probably more playing with the kids.  Mancala with Elise or Connect 4 with Austin. All with their own sets of rules of course. :) Around noon, Lucy had her school program, so we all walked over to watch it.  Rather than do a Thanksgiving-themed program, for whatever reason her teacher had

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We decided that on Tuesday we would (eventually) head up to the north shore and see if the big winter surfing contests were any good. One of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing contests, the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa, was going on, and while they had waited about 10 days without any decent waves, they finally started some surfing on Monday. While it wasn't the big waves they expect on north shore

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-12007041269125879902011-12-07T09:00:00.000-07:002011-12-08T13:34:53.761-07:00

Monday morning, mom and Kimi had signed up for a class at a botanical garden over in Honolulu somewhere, so Dad and I got babysitting duties for the morning (minus Lucy who had to go to school). Hanging out with Coley Moley After a nice relaxed morning, we eventually loaded up the kiddos and drove over to the much closer botanical gardens in Kaneohe with our objective being to feed bread to

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Day 4 of our trip was Sunday, and it was an extra special Sunday because we got to go to church, not just once, but twice! :)  Lucy goes to school at the Lutheran school next door to their house, and sometimes the school kids get to sing at the church's Sunday service. So we got dressed and walked over to the Lutheran church for their Sunday meeting. Pretty sure it was my first time at a non-LDS

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-50141751786018188592011-12-05T10:17:00.001-07:002011-12-05T10:30:44.571-07:00

Well the good news is that my last post may have actually inspired George to post some of his better pictures from  Hanauma on his family's blog.  The bad news is that I only have 1 picture from Day 3: And yes, it's pretty much the same view I posted for Day 2.  But I'm sure we still had fun on Day 3.  We got up and started our day with a delicious breakfast buffet at the hotel.  They had an

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Friday morning, George was off work, and it was pretty much the only morning he'd have available to snorkel with us, so Dad and I and George got up early (granted, I always get up early my first few days there with the time change) and headed over to Hanauma. The water was a little rougher than usual there, probably due to it being "winter" or something, but not horrible.  Saw lots of

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Well my "Welcome Back from Hawaii" headcold is mostly on the outs (knock on wood!), and things at work are a little slow, so I figured it might be time to start writing up my trip. Yeah? I like how I ask it as though 1) someone out there was reading this besides my mom who was on the trip, and 2) like you have any choice about what I blog. :) I tried to think of a clever title for these posts (

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One last post I wanted to get up here before I head out for the islands and miss the snowstorm that's hitting town this weekend: A couple years ago I went to see They Might Be Giants in concert and had a great time. When I saw they were coming again, its was an easy call to buy tickets again. And then it turned out that Jonathan Coulton was opening for them.  Granted he's not the most famous of

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-56654664240978420312011-11-14T10:27:00.001-07:002011-11-14T10:45:11.240-07:00

Cleaning out my to-blog list, since I will hopefully soon have a whole new list of things to post and share (leaving for Hawaii in approximately 3 days). Toward the end of last month, I went to Washington for the annual Informatics symposium. I didn't present anything, but our department had enough surplus budget that my boss encouraged me to ask if I could go and they said I could. Here's a

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-62331026577243473382011-11-09T14:03:00.000-07:002011-11-14T10:45:00.959-07:00

Since I've been slacking at blogging lately, I'm just going to share some photos of stuff that's been going on. I had a birthday party. (Yeah, like 2 months ago) And people came! Several people! And they played Scene It. And it even seemed like they have fun playing Scene It. :) Someone made me a cake! And I blew out all the candles! Julie (and if you look carefully, Brandon)

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Given that my phone has a semi-decent camera built-in, sometimes I take pictures with it of things I come across that interest me. These are a few of those: Is there another kind? :) Saw this book at the library the other day. Really? Not only does this book exist, someone at the library thought it was worth featuring? When trying to get the internet in my room to work while I was in DC (

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-17638347528597378302011-10-28T15:49:00.002-06:002011-10-28T15:49:39.416-06:00

Seriously, though, where did October go? I can't believe today is the 28th. I can't believe my birthday was 40 days ago.  Time is going way too fast. Anyway, here's a bit of an update of what's been going on. I went to DC for AMIA this week. Well, Saturday to Wednesday.  It was good to go and hear about what's going on and think about my own work and what kind of research I might could do.  I

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-22750935058256906082011-10-03T10:23:00.001-06:002011-10-03T10:31:25.862-06:00

So...I guess I'm just adding Day 9 in because it was part of the week. And it WAS Labor Day, so I guess that deserves some kind of mention. Anyway, we woke up, packed up our tents and everything else, and hit the road. Stopped for breakfast at McDonalds. That was pretty much it. :)  I don't remember what time we got home. Just know that it was good to be home again, and that I spent the next week

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Sunday morning, we got up, ate breakfast, and hit the road, headed north to Yellowstone National Park.  To get to Yellowstone from Jackson, you have to drive through a significant portion of Grand Tetons National Park (thankfully one admission fee covers both parks), so that was another first for me on this trip, seeing the Tetons.  We'd seen them off in the distance when we drove over from

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-76620892933100251012011-09-29T10:25:00.000-06:002011-09-29T10:26:22.324-06:00

I'm sure my loyal readers (are there any left after these last few boring posts?) will be excited to hear that after a two whole days of not really vacationing, I FINALLY got back to what I would call vacation on Saturday. We got up, ate breakfast at the Marriott and hit the road for Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Home of numerous archways made of antlers. We got to the camping area we had reserved

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After a brief break from vacationing on Day 5, Friday I was back on the road. But not until I first went to work for the 2nd day this week.  That's right, somehow in the midst of all this vacationing I managed to work two whole days. :) Anyway, after work, I hustled home, ate a quick dinner, packed up my stuff and was ready to hit the road for trip #2 of the week: Jackson Hole!  Another first

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Monday: Is it a coincidence that all of this knee stuff is happening right around my birthday? Probably, but its definitely a reminder that I'm not as young as I used to be.  Anyway, knee still bugging me today, but I still was able to go out and run 3 sets of 10 minutes each, having been inspired by Saturday's longish run.  During my running time, I did about 2.8 miles in 32 minutes. 

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We got back from California/Las Vegas around 5-ish on Wednesday night, and I spent most of the night catching up on things from while I was away (email, RSS, dealing with some photos, etc), and then I went to bed and Thursday was just a normal day. Except, not exactly. The one night that I was home this week was actually the University of Utah's opening football game.  The last few years the U's

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-52645007021953519282011-09-19T14:18:00.002-06:002011-09-19T14:18:29.070-06:00

I'm sorry I haven't finished blogging about my Week-o-Vacationing, but life just gets busy sometimes, you know? In any case, here's a post on my exercise from last week:  Tuesday: Started out tonight by miscalculating my 5 minute warmup and doing 6 minutes instead. Not a big deal, but probably contributed to my longer than normal run. I decided to go for 4 sets of 8.5 minutes of jogging after a

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Wednesday morning, we got up and got ready, took some photos to commemorate our matching shirts, and hit the road. We thought about getting breakfast buffet in Vegas, but figured we could make it to Mesquite before we'd really be hungry. Just a little bit worn out We got to Mesquite a mere 15 minutes before the Virgin River's breakfast buffet was ending, but that was enough time to get at

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-87223079605725287942011-09-14T09:29:00.001-06:002011-09-14T09:29:48.290-06:00

At the end of our night at Disneyland, Brandon brought up the idea that perhaps it might be wise to drive to Vegas Tuesday night rather than sleep in LA and have to drive all the way back to Salt Lake on Wednesday. Which was also something I'd thought of. I always think that on a road trip it's okay to get the long drive all out of the way on the first day, when you're still excited about the

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-49167735371555868642011-09-13T08:15:00.000-06:002011-09-13T08:20:14.272-06:00

Monday morning we got up bright and early so we could be to Disneyland in time for when it opened.  And to be honest, I was up a lot earlier than that. The time change plus the excitement made it easy for me to get up early and shower and then run to the store for some breakfast groceries and to fuel up the car. After breakfast we drove the ~30 minutes over to the park, rode the parking tram

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-63971365441200294592011-09-12T15:00:00.000-06:002011-09-13T07:45:55.694-06:00

So, 2 years ago, I had a 10-day period where I went to St. George, Park City, and Yellowstone. This year I only managed to get 2 destinations in during a 9-day span, but I also went to work for 2 days, and drove to California and back, and I came home feeling like I had definitely played pretty hard, so I felt like this series of posts was deserving of the W-o-V moniker. Starting early on Sunday

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Back from vacation means back to jogging: Tuesday: Well one thing is for certain: The first run after some time off usually goes pretty well.  After not running for about 10 days, I went out and picked up where I left off, doing 4 jogging sets of 8 minutes each with a minute of walking between each one.  And I went 4.1 miles in 47 minutes total, counting warm-up and cool-down walking. Excluding

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Before I get around to telling you all about my most recent vacations, I need to give an update on my health and well-being.  As long-time readers may know, I go to the doctor twice a year for follow-up on my Type II diabetes.  I get my blood drawn a couple days beforehand and through the miracle of modern technology I usually see my lab results before my doctor ever does.  And like last

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Back at work after the holiday weekend, and yet somehow it feels like I've been gone a lot longer.  Went to Jackson Hole for the weekend, but last week I went to California (Sun-Wed), then worked two days with a football game in the middle of all that. Haven't been for a run in over a week. Got my blood drawn this morning for my semi-annual diabetes follow-up appt on Thursday.  My birthday is

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-15566900785038446482011-08-27T15:33:00.000-06:002011-09-19T14:19:02.306-06:00

Normally I post these on Monday morning, but as I'll be out of town for a few days, I'm posting it early on Saturday.  2 weeks in a row with 3 runs pleases me. Nice to be seeing some progress. Here's the details: Monday: Did my first 7.5/1 split and I have to say that 7.5 minutes is a long time to be running and I'm starting to go far enough that I might have to start planning some new routes.

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-32069906787805156892011-08-24T08:38:00.000-06:002011-08-24T08:38:19.488-06:00

For as short and easy of a read as The Hobbit was, it felt like it took me quite a long while to finish reading it.  Partly I've just had a busy summer, and partly the fact that I remembered nearly all the details of the story (minus at least one twist that took me by surprise near the end) kept me from being all that excited to keep coming back and reading to see what happens next.  It was

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-31567342499194484972011-08-22T09:43:00.000-06:002011-08-22T09:43:34.051-06:00

Finally, a week with 3 days of running again. I'm continuing to raise the bar every 3rd run, albeit ever so slightly. Monday: Sitting here sweating up a storm after another 6.5/1 day.  Definitely have more energy when I take 4 days off instead of running a 3rd time in a week. :)  Definitely my furthest run yet: Just a smidge short of 3.5 miles in 38.5 minutes.  Run 7 minutes on my last leg

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-60381402038026378922011-08-15T10:33:00.000-06:002011-08-15T10:33:46.663-06:00

The running continues... Monday: Busted out another 6/1 split tonight. Ended up running after dinner rather than before, which wasn't my favorite, but it was cooler out than when I usually end up running so that was nice. Not quite as sweaty as I sit down to map out my run. Did 3.24 miles in 37 minutes.  Didn't hate life too much when I was done. I'll call it a win. :) Wednesday: Was not

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-85477387091184310242011-08-09T12:33:00.000-06:002011-08-09T12:33:02.645-06:00

So, rather than make several separate tiny entries, I just wanted to share some random stuff from the summer that hasn't made it on the blog yet: While George was still in town, we had an extended Tripp family gathering at the Benson Grist Mill complex in Stansbury, and had a good time eating and socializing. I got a couple good pictures there. Elise picking flowers Sunset The kids on a

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Now that my crazy July is over, I was finally able to get out and run 3 whole times this past week: Monday: Decided it was now or never for pushing forward, and I took a tiny step up to running for 5.5 minutes each leg with the same 1 minute walking rest in between.  Went just over 3.1 miles in 35 minutes. Had some weird tingling in my left elbow at the end. So that was new. :)  Also, discovered

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-41410362608538976702011-08-01T10:05:00.000-06:002011-08-01T10:05:39.660-06:00

Have I really been at this for 15 weeks? That's a lot of weeks. Tuesday: Despite my sinuses bugging me pretty bad the last hour or so of work, I came home, took a double power nap (40 minutes), and got dressed and went out. Even though it was a little rainy. And a lot thundery.  I only got rained for about 2 minutes, but the thought of getting struck by lightning did cross my mind more than once

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-65176954706317226252011-07-28T09:45:00.000-06:002011-07-28T09:45:15.841-06:00

This last, holiday, weekend, I headed down to St. George with some of the same folks that I've gone down with each of the last 2 years for a trip to Tuacahn (outdoor theater) and some other St. George-y fun.  Brandon and I picked up Laci and Julie-Ann Friday after work and we headed down to St. George. Despite being Friday of a holiday weekend, traffic wasn't too bad, except for the time when I

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Another atypical week, which seems to be the new typical this month.  I went out to Grantsville both Monday and Wednesday after work to play with the kids before they headed back to Hawaii yesterday.  Might have gone a whole week without running, but found time on Thursday after work. Then Friday I headed down to St. George for the holiday weekend. Here's my one daily summary for the week:

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After a slightly longer and much sounder night of sleep, we again got up bright and early. (When you're sleeping in a tent with no roof, or at least no rain fly, the sky gets light pretty early.)  We again ate some breakfast, packed up our stuff as Tandy, Julie and I wouldn't be coming back to the campsite again, packed some lunch, and the bikers started biking and the hikers headed into town,

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I swear I've been meaning to go down to Moab and see Arches National Park for at least 3 years, maybe more, and the number of times I've been invited to go and have either already had plans or had something come up or whatever, is probably in the double digits now.  Anyway, this past weekend, after all those years of not going, I finally went! And it was amazing. Even with 100+ degree heat in the

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Well, another week has gone by without any non-Y5K posts, but hopefully that won't be the case this coming week. Just got back from a great trip to Moab and have some photos to share at some point...Anyway, on with the jogging: Monday: Taking a week off definitely improved my pace today. :)  I dug down deep and picked up at the same level I left off, almost 2 weeks ago, when I did my last "for

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Remember when I was planning on running a 5K sometime this year? Yeah... I kind of do, too. Just not so much this past week. :)  I mean, granted, the Ray Barrus 5K was on Monday, so that counts, just not for this blog post.  But that was all the running I did last week.  Wednesday night I went for a nice long walk, and I kind of planned on jogging on Thursday, but I decided to play volleyball

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The first time I read HP7, it had just come out, and I was in Europe for a conference for school, and I bought it in Germany and read about 100 pages the night I bought it and the rest (another 500 pages or so) on my long flight home to Utah.  Perhaps due to the rapid manner in which I read it, or maybe because I was up for close to 24 hours, I was surprised at how much of the book came as a

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To sum up: I had a great time this past weekend being with family and celebrating the 4th of July.  It was Natalie's last few days in town before leaving for El Paso to start her career as a reporter, and George and his family were in town from Hawaii.  I went out to Grantsville Saturday evening after spending most of the day doing Saturday chores in Salt Lake (laundry, jogging, cleaning my room,

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This was another exciting week of running (has it really been 12 weeks since I started tracking all of this?), featuring my 2nd 5K of the year, this time running with family in Grantsville on the 4th of July. Monday: Had originally planned to run right after work, but when my car's thermometer said "95" on the drive home, I decided to put my run off until it was a little cooler out. Ended up

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I always hope that I'll manage to get up at least one non-Y5K post in between my Monday updates, but this week I've failed to do that. Oh, well.... Anyway, on with the jogging: Monday: I was pretty tired after work today and considered taking a nap first before going on my run. Finally just changed my clothes and made myself go. Did my second 1/4 walk/jog split. 3.02 miles in 36 minutes. For

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Another week of running come and gone and for the most part it went really well: Monday was definitely a "score one for mental toughness" day.  I was really tempted to just take another day off for "recovery" from Saturday's 5K, but somehow I talked myself into going, because I knew that whatever day was the first day would probably be just as tough.  Anyway, for variety I picked a new route,

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As I mentioned previously, my youngest brother, Ben, just entered the MTC last week for a few weeks of training before heading off to Hawaii to be a full-time missionary for the church.  And my only sister, Natalie, has now officially accepted a job as a reporter for a news station in El Paso and will be moving there in the next few weeks. Kind of crazy.  In any case, prior to both of them taking

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Well, another week of running has come and gone, and this one, I guess is slightly more significant because at the end of it, I ran an official 5K. Well I didn't RUN the whole 5 kilometers, but I ran a lot of it and... well, I'll just let you read about it. Despite some overcast and windy weather, I managed to get out and run Monday after work.  Since I'd taken nearly a week off (ok, 5 days), I

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I finished Brain Rules over the weekend.  It was a fairly quick read. Partly because the material wasn't too dense -- very pop science-y, partly because some of it was stuff I was familiar with already, some of it (ok, maybe in large part) because I took this book with me to Orlando and got plenty of good reading time in on the planes.  But it was well-written and easy to follow.  A quick

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Slightly shorter post this week, since last week's post came on Tuesday and included Monday. Wednesday was a nice night for a jog, overcast but not too cool.  Tried out a new route from my house, that was mostly uphill on the way out and then downhill on the 2nd half.  Felt like I was struggling a bit, but I managed to stick to the 2 minutes walking/3 minutes jogging that I was supposed to do and

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As I've been mapping all my runs lately (quick plug for Gmaps Pedometer), and seeing how far I go in about 40 minutes, I was reminded of being a missionary and how we walked everywhere and how I always told myself that when I got home from Argentina, I'd try to walk more instead of driving everywhere, because really it doesn't take THAT long to walk somewhere.  Now, I can't say I've stuck to

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So, essentially 12 hours after arriving home from my work trip to Orlando, I hit the road again. This time for pleasure, rather than for business.  My good friend Jon, who you might remember from other Adventures of the Big Digital, was getting married in the Columbia River temple, in the Tri-Cities area of Washington state.  My friends Alicia, Matt & Marti (Matt & Marti are married) had also

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Well... I did bring my running stuff to Disney World. So I guess I AM one of those people now. :) Went for a run Wednesday afternoon in Orlando's 90 degree weather. Did my first 2.5/2.5 walking/jogging split and did 2.9 miles along some paths, boardwalks, and sidewalks leading from our hotel to various Disney parks and shopping districts. Saw "Disney Hollywood Studios", whatever that is, then

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This week I went to Orlando for the very first time, but somehow managed to avoid ending up in any theme and/or amusement parks.  I was actually there for work to present my work with death certificates at a public health informatics meeting that was held in the Walt Disney World Swan hotel. I got into Orlando late Tuesday after a relatively painless one-stop flight on US Airways. (Brief layover

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So yesterday was Ben's mission farewell (or whatever we're supposed to call those things now).  And he did a great job speaking. In a few weeks he'll be headed out to Hawaii for the next couple years.  I'm excited for all the experiences he'll have there serving the Lord. Additionally, Natalie mentioned that she might possibly have a job offer coming that would have her moving out of state

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After feeling reasonably well for a few days, I finally packed up my gym bag on Wednesday to get back on the treadmill at work (seeing as how it was a constant downpour for most of the week).  Unfortunately when I got into the locker room to change I discovered I'd forgotten to pack shorts. :( So Thursday, I packed more carefully and after work I hit the treadmill and decided to go with a 3/1

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For a Terry Brooks book that was only 350 pages long, this one felt like it took me a long time to finish. Especially when I look back at the limited amount of plot that actually took place in those pages. Or maybe that explains why it took me so long to finish it.  Definitely not my favorite. Maybe my least favorite Shannara book.  Granted, I'll probably still read the sequel when it comes out

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So...umm...yeah...about last week... the thing is that I felt pretty crappy on Monday. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. And pretty much every day until Saturday.  So I didn't exercise at all this last week. But! This doesn't mean I've given up on my dream of running a whole 5K this year.  It might mean I might not be up to running a whole one in June. But I can still run part of that one while I

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Last Monday after work I came home, stopped at GreatClips for a quick trim and the hit the streets for my walk/jog.  So nice to be able to run outside instead of on the treadmill. I really tried to push myself on the jogging sections.  Got a nice 2.4 miles in.  Interested to see how I feel after a rest day tomorrow. Wednesday, I'm stepping up to a 3/2 walk/jog split. Wednesday was another great

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After living in Salt Lake for over a decade now (Crazy tangential thought: I only lived in Grantsville for about 16 years, and now I've lived in Salt lake for close to 11... weird to think about, that's all), I finally made it to a concert at Kilby Court, a place I've heard about and seen photos from for quite a while now.  I knew it was an "intimate" aka "small" venue but I didn't realize it was

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Well my new running shoes definitely got a workout this past week. I followed up Monday's 4 minutes walking/90 minutes jogging with another set of that on Wednesday (again on the treadmill at work, what with the weather being what it was). Thursday, my training guidelines called for rest or cross-training, so I did 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer at work. Friday, I stepped up another

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Woke up this morning to ... lots of snow. Which would be less surprising if it weren't the very last day of April. :) View out the front door Went upstairs to get a better view of the road and driveway Sometimes when I'm sitting at the computer, Homey will come over and look down the window well to say hi. Occasionally he brings his ball in the hopes that I will come out and play. Update:

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So, rather than make a separate entry for every 5K related thing that I do, I'm thinking I'll just try to post an update once a week or so, recapping the latest developments. Since last I wrote: Last Wednesday, I hit the treadmill for a set of 5 minutes walking and 1 minute jogging. (with 5 minutes of walking to start and end) And my right foot really was bugging me quite a bit. Not until I

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A couple weeks ago as I was chatting with my good friend Julie, I mentioned that sometimes I feel like I need to find some more hobbies or set some new goals or something to make me feel like I'm doing something with my life when I'm not at work. Anyway, I jokingly said, "Maybe I should train to run a marathon, isn't that what girls do when they reach a certain age and are still single?", because

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As sometimes happens, I forgot to make any plans for something fun and weekend-y to do this Saturday evening, so I ended up taking myself to the mall for some shopping. It was good to get out. :) Sometimes, maybe because I spend a lot of my life working mostly alone in a hospital basement, I forget that there are tons of people out there wearing skinny jeans over high top sneakers with big

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Finished "The Book Thief" this past weekend. And yes, it was, as I had been informed, a bit emotional at the end. But because of the way that author chose to structure the book, there really weren't any surprises. So that was...interesting, to have the end of the book given away relatively early on. And I always take a little bit of issue with fictional accounts that seem to go for the big

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Sometimes I just don't understand the Pharmacy at Wal-mart. Maybe I should stop going there. :)  I assume that I won't be able to get 90 days worth of my generic cholesterol medicine for $5 somewhere else. Maybe I should find out.  In any case, while I do still go to Wal-mart, here are some suggestions: 1) Can we get an express lane for people who just want to "Drop Off" prescriptions at the "

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While I was in Hawaii, I finished off "The Devil in the White City". It turned out to be a pretty interesting account of both the Chicago World Expo and of the serial killer who was living near the fair and his eventual capture.  It made me sad to find out that most of the amazing architecture built specifically for the fair burned not long after. Definitely seemed like a beautiful place.  And

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One nice thing about taking the red-eye flight home is that you at least get to spend that whole day still being on vacation. No mini half-day or something. We started our final day in Hawaii (for now) by driving over to the southwest side of the island for some more snorkeling at a place called Electric Beach. It's called that because there's a power plant nearby that has cooling lines going

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After a couple days off from wearing my trunks, Day 6 found us back at the beach once again.  We checked out of "Uncle Jake's Beach House" and headed out to Waimea Bay for a morning of swimming, boogie boarding, and snorkeling.  Waimea had nice soft sand and a really steep slope up from the water to the beach, which made for some fun boogie board riding.  Just from the shore we were able to see

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Day 5 started out with another lazy morning, after our late night at the luau and show the night before.  Not entirely sure what I did, probably read my book and played with kids. Eventually, we headed out for lunch from Fumi's Shrimp, one of the various shrimp shacks along the highway north of Laie.  The ponds where they raise the shrimp are right out in the field next to shack, and they even

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We started our first full day in Laie with some good old-fashioned laziness. Well, some of us did at least. :)  George and my dad took off fairly early to go scout out some snorkeling spots, eventually ending up at Kulima Cove, at the Turtle Bay Resort.  The rest of us spent the morning enjoying the view of the ocean and just generally relaxing.  I was able to finish up the book I'd been working

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After a day and a half of being in Hawaii without even getting my swim trunks on, Monday morning rolled around and we made the most of the day. :) We started out with an early drive over to Hanauma Bay for some beginner snorkeling.  On my last trip to Hawaii, it was definitely my favorite place that I snorkeled and I still think it probably holds the title for now. For starters, the water is

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Our 2nd Day in Hawaii was Sunday, and George's family doesn't have church until 1 pm (5 pm Utah time), so we had plenty of time to be lazy around the house, do some reading, and play with the kids until it was time for church.  Church was pretty much like church in Utah, except for everyone saying "Aloha" and the congregation saying it back.  Oh, and the part where the Sunday School teacher asked

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Day 1 of our Tripp Family Hawaiian vacation (dubbed Hawaii Eleven-0 by my mother given that its 2011, and if you count grandchild #4 that's one the way, there were 11 of us there) started at the Salt Lake International Airport, where the security line was a little long but moved quickly and before we knew it we were on our way to the islands! And because our direct flight from Salt Lake to

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Got a busy Saturday ahead of me, catching up on stuff that needs doing upon arriving home from vacation (laundry, sleep, etc), so it might be a few days before I get around to full-blown blog coverage of the trip. In the meantime, here's one of my favorite shots from the trip:

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Looking forward to this: and this: But possibly even more to stuff like this: and this:

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Only 5 more days til I'll be back here again.

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Well there are actually a few weird things about having moved to a different room in the same house. 1) Its going to take a while before I don't instinctively head toward the upstairs when I get home. 2) I feel like I totally live somewhere else. Except I don't. Everything looks exactly the same. And yet, it's like I've never been there before. 3) Because the furniture in my new room is

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I spent a significant portion of this past weekend moving. Not houses, just rooms. One of our roommates got married Saturday and I had decided a couple months ago that when he moved out that I'd move downstairs to his room. I'd had the option of moving down to the basement just over a year ago when my roommate who also happens to own the house decided he wanted to rent that room out. It's a

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So two times a year, I come to work a couple minutes early, go up to the lab, and get my blood drawn to run some tests to check out how I'm doing with my diabetes and other things that are important to keep an eye for diabetes-related reasons (like my cholesterol and something called ALT). I can get my results through the Intermountain MyHealth patient portal as soon as they are available, which

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I took this book with me on my President's Day weekend road trip to La Verkin, and as the weather was pretty wet and cold I had plenty of down time for reading, and I actually had this one finished off by the end of Saturday, leaving me without much to read on Sunday afternoon.  Oh well... at least it was a good read. :)  If you've seen the film "The Social Network", this is the book that that

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-21016440476507526362011-02-22T22:53:00.002-07:002011-02-22T22:58:05.830-07:00

So, my "escape the winter" road trip to St. George didn't really pan out quite as planned. I mean, I guess cold and rainy might be slightly better than cold and snowy, but neither one was really what I had in mind.  Nevertheless, we refused to let the damp weather dampen our spirits and we sallied forth to enjoy the out of doors. At least for a few hours each day. :) Saturday morning, Laci took

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-57705194579672677252011-02-22T13:45:00.000-07:002011-02-22T13:45:23.539-07:00

So, as I was preparing for my road trip last week (for those who can't wait for a recap here, photos can be found here), I realized I only had about 20 pages left in my current book, and that I would probably need to get a new book to take with my on the trip if I wanted some reading for downtimes. And I didn't really want to have to pack two books just for the last 20 pages of the first one.

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After a significant break from traveling (my last vacation was my trip to Hawaii in October), I'm sitting at work today counting down the hours until I can't head home and then hit the road for a little road trip down to the St. George area.  And yes, it does look like it'll be somewhat rainy down there this weekend, but I'll take rainy over snowy. :) In addition to this weekend, my spring is

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Last night in my Institute class, we read the following passage from Deuteronomy Chapter 8, that talks about the danger that once God has blessed us many good things and met our temporal needs of then forgetting about God and thinking that we got all those good things by our own power and might:  10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which

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The garbage collection situation at my work is an interesting on.  When I first started here 2 years ago, it seemed like people came fairly regularly to empty the trash cans in our office suite.  I definitely remember that every Friday afternoon someone would come and vacuum right outside my office and I'd have to close my door.  But somewhere along the way, things got weird. Sometimes we'd go

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So...turns out that I may still be sicker than I thought.  I had stopped sucking on cough drops and cut back on my generic cold medicine to just twice a day, and I was down to just a mild, dry cough. And then somehow I ended up back at sore throat ville.  And increased congestion.  Is this a new cold? Or just the old one making a comeback, aided by the super cold weather we've been having? Who

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-91047835699244504412011-01-28T10:27:00.000-07:002011-01-28T10:27:31.524-07:00

Quick update, since I know you've all been agonizing over the status of my latest round of winter illness. :) After basically 2 weeks of feeling crummy, I finally felt good enough yesterday to go play volleyball. Hoping to get back to the exercise room at work tonight as well after two weeks away.  Not that I've been bed-ridden or anything. Just sore throat/congestion/coughing.  Still haven't

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-79734736192244763702011-01-18T09:48:00.002-07:002011-01-18T09:50:30.954-07:00

As I mentioned last post, I'm currently in the midst of my 3rd head cold this winter.  Sore throat, mild cough, lots of *stuff* filling up my nose and throat.  And yet its not so bad that I feel like staying home from work and using my hard earned time off just because I'm feeling mildly crappy.  I'm still going about my days pretty much as usual, except that I'm not exercising, and I'm trying to

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-31833264601175488892011-01-14T09:29:00.000-07:002011-01-14T09:29:59.292-07:00

Written while suffering through what I think is the third cold I've had this winter. My roommates need to stop getting sick...anyway So I'm planning on going tubing up at Soldier Hollow tonight with my ward (and probably a bunch of other people) so yesterday before work and after work I spent probably close to an hour searching for my snow gloves. (I have some light, non-waterproof gloves that I

jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828036362454812901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13468203.post-28362887551762876982010-12-29T09:58:00.000-07:002010-12-29T09:58:45.568-07:00

So I was thinking during the recent holiday season that when people use the word "Scrooge" to describe a person, they mean someone who is cold and heartless and money-obsessed and mean and hates Christmas, right?  But wasn't the whole point of the story that he changed his ways. I mean the end of the story says that "It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man

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