I'm hydrated. I'm carbed up. I still feel woefully under-prepared. I'm going to bed. I hope I can do it.

Crap.

from last weekend's 8K are now available. Check out that second one! (I snaffled a copy here if you don't like turning your head 90 degrees.) I'm pretty sure that's coming in to the finish line. I look pretty pained,

performance of "La Vie Boheme" by the original Broadway cast. Awesome. (Link courtesy of Kel.)

Link courtesy of Tim.)

Since it took me the better part of an afternoon to figure this out, I'm going to immortalize it here for future Googlers. You see, there's no nice way in Joomla 1.5 to customize the head title tags of each

Things Younger Than John McCain. My favorites are Alaska and the polio vaccine. (Link courtesy of PCJM.)

finally premiered in Australia, and we very much enjoyed it. Snookums made me pause it at one point just so he could verify that, yes, the New Zealand consulate is located in the same building as "All Asian Massage."

What Marie Antoinette Wore to the RevolutionI just finished this fascinating book last night. It makes for an interesting companion-piece to the Antonia Fraser biography I read a few years ago (and that the recent movie was based on). The

too. Multiple carriers in Australia!

Official" Race Time... Not.My phone beeped at 6:30am this morning. It turned out to be my "official" race results from the Mother's Day Classic. According to the SMS, my time was 56:00. WRONG. Check out the iPod data. I started

Meteorologists don't know nothin'. I sorta guessed that, but it's nice to have it validated. Remember Opera in the Domain? Every weatherperson in Sydney said it was going to pour rain, to the extent that a bunch of people piked.

Want to be happy? Don't have kids." Of the trifecta of being married, having money, and having kids, a Harvard academic says being married makes the biggest difference to your personal level of happiness. He's pretty harsh about parenting: "Parents

2008The Snook and I got up at the butt-crack of dawn this morning to head to the Domain for the 2008 Mother's Day Classic 8K race. (That's five miles for the non-metric.) We ran it together before in 2006, but

I've given this blasted cold four days of rest, with no running or swimming in that time. Thursday I started to feel a lot better though, so today I decided enough was enough. I put on my new shoes, zipped

WANT. Just the perfect thing to show off your handknitted socks! (Link courtesy of passionknit.)

Check out the section on "simplified naturalization":1. If one of your parents was a Korean citizen. (Emphasis on "was". It’s ok if your parent renounced Korean citizenship.)Hey, I think that includes me! My mom was born in Korea to a

Wait, WHAT? Ebert has a blog? That's awesome!

Wow! Hillary only won Indiana by two percentage points? That's much, much closer than I imagined it to be. Awesome. (Sorry Grandma. I voted for the black guy.)

I don't suppose any of you have a Myer One discount voucher booklet (including a $40 off coupon for the Wii Fit) that you won't be using? Because that would, like, rock.