Luke ‘n’ Bill

Lisa and I just recently picked up some nice road bikes for getting some good exercise and just good outdoor entertainment.  At the same time Rochesterfest just had it’s first annual triathlon here in Rochester.  It got me to thinking…I’ve always wanted to try a triathlon and this triathlon here has a “sprint” version of it.  1/4 mile swim, 10 mile bike and 3 mile run.  I can “do all three” and was thinking that would be a really good way to give a triathlon a try without having to kill myself.  So I think I’m going to do a relaxed training regiment for it over the next year and give it a shot next year.   So far in the last 5 days I’ve put 49.5 miles on my bike including yesterdays 27 mile ride where I was able to average 16 mph up and down some good hills and fighting a good headwind for good portion of it.

I’ll be sure to keep an update on here about my progress.

Well being that I haven’t written in a while I figured I would update people on the recent going ons and why I’m so freakin busy.

First, at the beginning of the month I moved to Minnesota, actually back to Minnesota to be exact.  It’s been about 6 years since I lived here, but that’s still long enough for Minnesota to require me to take the written exam again.  You can read more about that craziness later on.

After that I had a busy couple of weeks doing a few things….getting moved in, getting things set up to work remotely (while working remotely) and most importantly getting things set up for the engagement.

So if you didn’t know about it already, you do now, Lisa and I are officially engaged!  I’ll let Lisa write up a quick little ditty on all the gory details, but it was a full weekend and we had a blast.

After all that excitement we had our big house warming party that went over good and now it’s finally time to relax…for a couple days.

Download Firefox 3 in late June.  Set a record!

Well, after a few months of planning and a hectic month of lining things up I’m back in Minnesota!

Overall, the move went really smooth.  After getting everything set up and slowly getting everything packed up and ready to go for the move, I started the heavy lifting on Friday (May 30th) by packing up the last of the little stuff I could in my apartment and starting to clean everything in the apartment.  After getting about 90% through the cleaning of the apartment I headed to bed around 2am and set my alarm for 7:30 the next morning.

The next morning (the 31st) I got up early and headed down to the U-haul place.  They set me up with the 17 foot truck I had reserved and I hooked up the car trailer behind it.  Although I did have to leave my car there, even though they told me that they did a ramp for loading the cars onto the trailer multiple times (right up to the point where I needed to put it on the trailer).

So anyways, I got the uhaul and started to pack up the back of it with all the little stuff before Brooks and Jill showed up to help me with the big stuff.  That part went way faster than I thought it would.  So after we got done packing up and loading my car onto the trailer, I quickly finished up the cleaning and was out of there!  (by around 2:00 pm).

This was probably the longest (in actual time) it ever took me to get to Rochester.  The longest trip (in the amount of time it felt like) was when I came over to surprise Lisa for our first date, that trip felt like 9 hours.  But this trip took me about 4 hours.  After a few stops to re-adjust the wheel straps on the trailer and figure out exactly how they went on, the trip was a little quicker.

So around 6 or 6:30 I got in to Rochester.  For the last week it has been a whirlwind of unpacking setting things up and a little bit of work spread in there too.  Now, this weekend it started to feel a little more relaxing and a little more like home.

I suppose this is enough for now.  I think I’m going to try to convince my girl to go down stairs with me and watch a movie.  Although I am kinda enjoying my entertainment now, I’m getting a very nice serenade by my girl on her guitar while I sit here and type.