I’ve been bouncing around a few ideas on topics over the past few days, but I’ve yet to settle on any one idea. Interestingly enough as i was reading the NY Times this morning over my usual cup of coffee and listing to tunes from my iPod i came across two articles that are really interesting to read and happen to correlate to a few topics I’ve been thinking of.
The first article is the leading story on the business section Read more…
Thoughts on Biz
Since I blew up the motherboard on my laptop this past week I haven’t been able to keep up on the news as much as I’d like…so I’ve spent the better part of Sunday catching up on things. I stumbled across this article on NYTimes.com. I’ll try and give you the readers digest version. Harley Davidson, the Motorcycle manufacturer, has fallen on tough times for a number of reasons. The article is primarily financial driven to show how and why the company is struggling. The economy is one of the primary ones…obviously. However, the struggles have brought to light something far more long term and thus detrimental to the Harley brand…not keeping up with the consumer. Read more…
Thoughts on Biz
I haven’t been as diligent as I’d like about blogging, my schedule has been a little out of sync as of late…thus no routine leads to no blogging. Any way I’ll catch most of you up on the latest here in the Rose city.
Last weekend I celebrated my Irish heritage by going to Kell’s Friday night and consuming a few pints of Guinness followed by a few glasses of fine Irish whisky and dancing a jig or 2. For those of you who don’t know Kell’s is a very recognized Irish pub here Portland. In fact, the St. Pats day party is the biggest on the west coast.
The following Sunday I used as marathon training by running a 15k race, affectionately dubbed “The Shamrock Run”. This was a good lesson in doing your homework on the race course. What I thought would be a “challenging” course which consisted of an out and back…turned out to be a brutal climb up the only mountain in Portland. About the time I thought the course was supposed to zig…it zagged. In fact it zagged straight up the steepest hill in Portland, past the entrance of the hospital that sits on “pill hill” and back down. Despite the rain, the cold, and the wind…it was a pretty decent little run, well as little as 9.3 miles is anyway. I finished with a pretty decent time despite climbing a small mountain.
Works been pretty quite which is a nice change, its especially quite when you blow the mother board up on your laptop. 
Until the next time…
Cheers,
Misc
There really isn’t much sense in doing a week in review at this point since it would only consist of work, run, sleep, wash and repeat. Work this week could best be put as “colorful”. It is worth noting that I did learn a lot this week, sometimes you’d just prefer not to learn through dysfunction. And I digress…
Saturday consisted of what is becoming a challenging, yet rewarding routine. It consists of me getting up just after the sun, which is rising earlier and earlier, and running a ridiculous amount of miles through the woods. Follow that by a hot shower, a cup of black coffee, a huge breakfast Read more…
Cool Stories, Music
It was a pretty decent week here in Portland. I clipped along at a decent pace at work and got quite a bit done. I also was able to get some personal time in during the week as well. And of course, I ran…a lot.
Without further ado…the list. Read more…
Misc