Feb 11th

Feb 9th

I got up an went to work today and the ride was much faster tahn it was yesterday. The weather was fine so I was able to catch a train really quickly and it ran fine. I just kept working on the reader the entire day and I managed to get all the formatting I could get done done. So that was pretty nice. I have a couple more articles to do that still needed to be scanned in. They didn't have the old copies in a format that could be read anymore, so that took some time. Damien got me started on the database project that would be the task I was working on for the rest of the time I was there. I have an email account that a filled out form gets sent to. The form is one that retailers can fill out. We then put that onlone in a directory that people can look at so they know where they can buy organic cotton. Its actually a pretty cool system. Once I get the hand of this, I'm going to start talking to companies to get how much organic cotton they've sold so that we can put out a report on how much organic cotton is being sold in the UK and track its growth. So that's going pretty good.

After work I came home and went for a quick run before grabbing some dinner. On the way home I stopped by a patissere that's near here and picked up some little cakes for desert. I also stopped by a place called Threshers tha sells wine and took advantage of a deal they had going on for some wine. I made myself a big dinner. I had a nice sirloin steak with some garlic mashed potatoes. It was really good. After I got everything all cleaned up I headed to go do some laundry that needed to get done. That took me longer than I had expected because one of the washers was busted. I got a blog post written while I was waiting and did some reading the rest of the time. I got back and sat around online before heading to bed.

Feb 10th

I got up this morning and got ready to go run. I went over to the Union to get my number and I helped out one of that captain run down some of the last entries. After that I went and got warmed up. The race itself went pretty well. I ended up on the tail end of the top third or so in the first leg, which I was pretty happy with. I felt like I ran a pretty good race all things considered. I feel like I could have run it better if I had been doing some more speed work, but I'm happy with the way things went. After I got cooled down, I ran around doing what I could to help. I ended up back at the Union waiting until the awards ceremony was going to start. That took forever to get started because the person doing results couldn't figure out who the winenr were. All they had to do was look at the top three finishers of the last leg and they could have figuured it out. That was apparently a strech for them. Some the teams even ended up leaving because the wait was getting so long. After everything had finished, I helped get the room all cleaned up and headed home. When I got back I made a lot of food, since I hadn't really eaten anything since this morning. I talked to Katie for a long time and then headed to bed.

Feb 11th

I got up and got a run in this morning. I could tell that I had raced the day before. My legs were feeling pretty heavy and I was I dragging just a little bit. It was a really nice morning, so I just took it slow and enjoyed the morning. I got back and mayde myself a nice big breakfast. Since most of the people were out on trips this weekend I decided I would treat myself to some good food. Or at least I would try to cook some good food. I think it turned pretty good. As I was cleaning up, one of the guys said he was going to go to a sports store to look at some stuff. There were a couple of things that I wanted to look at, so I said that I would go along. The place is having a massive sale. January is normally a big sale month for stores here, but its going on longer at this place. I found a pack that was like 80 percent off that I'm planning on using for a day pack when I'm travelling. The guy I was with wanted to stop by Harrod's to get a gift for his girlfriend, so we stopped by there. That's an interesting store. Different. That's for sure. I came back and made some stir fry and then talked to dad for a while. Since then I've been sitting around just hanging out.