This one's for you Dave!

It's been about 8-9 months since I've had time, well actually it's more motivation, to write something here. But an email from my buddy Dave inspired me. So much is actually going on these days that I should try to capture some of it.

Rather than trying to catch up, let's just start with now. Kristin and I have been spending a lot of our free time training for the Portland Marathon. It's on Oct. 1 and tomorrow we have our biggest training run thus far--about 18-19 miles. I'm feeling pretty good about my progress so far but damn this training is time consuming. We expect to go for about 3 hours tomorrow. Thankfully I just got a nice hydration bottle from my brother/sister-in-law Kevin and Jen.

Here it is:
sports bottle


In addition to Kristin's fuel belt, we are all hydrated up and look like real runners.

Work and school are going well. School is not as busy and I am only working on my business project for this wonderful company with an amazing product. The company is called Evo and we are working on a marketing plan (among a handful of other deliverables) for them. This is one of their products.

Lewis started a new day care today...he's still a handful and likes to jump on people and bark for attention. These are really desirable traits for a pet. I recommend staying away from a low maintenance, easy going, quiet dog and try to find the most difficult runt of the litter. Hey that's what we did and we're thrilled! Actually, it's not that bad. He annoys other people more than us, but we need to get some more behavioral work with him. I think he would be happy if he lived here and could herd sheep all day. We actually are entertaining driving 2 hours to take him there to find out if his border collie heritage is calling him for greater things.

Football really gets started this weekend and I'm incredibly excited about that. The Beavs got smoked 42-14 last night on national tv by Boise State so that sucks, but I'm still confident the season will be a good one. I've got tickets with my buddies Jeff and Nate for a few games, including the Civil War.

Plus #1 Ohio State squares off against #2 Texas. I'm going with Ohio State by 6 because Texas has a freshman quarterback. Kristin and I will definitely watch this one.

That's all for now. More to come, I promise.