My First NSV!

Where I work, our offices are split up into two campuses about 3-5 miles apart. I had a meeting at the other campus, so I left my office a little early to make sure that I beat any traffic, runaway homeless people, and captain "sticky beards" that may be wallowing around the mean streets of my city wallowing in their own wooden buckets of self loathing, but I digress! I parked in the "Pigeon Pit," so named because of the large number of pigeons that indescriminantly perch dozens of feet above our heads and bomb our vehicles with what can only be described as white bird do-do. After locking my car up right next to a public port-a-potty because there was no other place to park, I made my way to the parking elevator.

The button was pressed and the elevator hesitantly greeted me and two other unfortunate individuals and opened it's doors to begin the the 3 story ride to the top of the parking deck. Of course, the two other people I was in the elevator with were professionals, so there was no small talk. There was no "Oh, did you catch the game last night?" or "Nice weather we're having, huh?" conversations to be found. We rode up in silence, butt cheeks clinched, praying that one of us would not speak to the rest of us.

The elevator finally made it to the top and I crossed the bridge after flashing my complementary badge to the complementary security officer with the complementary gun loaded with complementary bullets. I walked across the bridge quickly because that is what professional people do, right? We cross the bridges quickly to look industrious and important!

I finally reached our work space, swiped my ID badge, and heard the subtle woosh of the glass doors as it welcomed me into the cool air of our shared workspace. Three of my colleagues, with surprised looks on their faces, told me that my face had gotten slimmer since they last saw me a month ago. While I'm not one to take compliments well, I was very grateful that my hard work had manifested itself in such a way. With this renewed boost of confidence, I went to my meeting completely refreshed and ready to tackle the remainder of my day with a blitz of awesome! Stay thirsty my friends!

Who is this Dude?

This is my first blog post, so I feel that it is incumbent upon me to introduce myself. I am a husband and father of 3 young children. I work in IT, so my work life means that many days out of the month I am sedentary. Sure, there are days when things kick into gear and I'm on my feet most of the day, but those are not as numerous as I would like them (or want them to be perfectly honest). I must digress with a random fact: Those who have known me since middle school call me Big Worm. It's a long story, but mostly involves the movie "Friday" that was directed by Ice Cube back in the days when I was young. I'm not a kid anymore but sometimes I sit and wish I was a kid again (catch the reference and I'll give you 100 Internets).

For the past 9 weeks, give or take 4 days, I have been participating in a program called C25K. It is an awesome program that basically builds up your ability to run a 5K program in 9 weeks. So far I have found the program challenging, but rewarding. I have used a few forums as well to help me keep track of my progress. So far, I don't know where I want this blog to go or what I want it to do, but I think I will just wing it for a while and see how it goes. So far this ride only consists of myself, but maybe time will bring along someone that wants to ride shotgun!