You all probably don't exactly know what i'm talking about, but on this website:
this girl from indiana talked about TNF Denali Jackets -- one of my companies most popular coats. I was in awe. Really.

Amazing Denali Jacket Article

Marathon Man

SO I don't know if any of you all have been following Dean Karnazas as he is running his 50 miles in 50 days, but I have. I met him at Outdoor Retailer (a large trade show in Salt Lake) last summer after reading his book... Man, he is unbelievable. I mean, the guy has run a bunch of Ultra-Marathons, and after 16 marathons is still going strong. I am in awe. Seriously. I was sucking wind this weekend on my 14 mile run (which ended up being more like 10, cause I was dying) and this guy has been running 26.2 miles a day for the past 3 weeks.

Anyway, I'm also counting down to my own chance to run with him. Oct 20th in Cleveland. I was already going home to visit the fam, and he happens to be there the same time! YEAH! so I get to run with (proabbly behind) him!

He's also raising money to fight childhood obesity, and he's a bad ass. Reading his book, he seems cocky, but really. If i could do what he does--I'd be cocky too.

Check out his blog: http://enduranceis.typepad.com/

I get a bunch of e-newsletters daily, and this quote stuck out at me...

"I asked my 15-year-old nephew, Ari, about MySpace. He doesn't have a profile, though his friends are on the site. He says he's not interested. He told me over Instant Messenger, 'It seems like something that I'd obsess over and then leave alone forever. Not worth the energy."'

Granted, so Ari's smarter and more eloquent than most people. News Corp and Google better hope he's just speaking for himself, and not his generation. "

--David Berkowitz is director of strategic planning at 360i.

I'll admit I joined MySpace earlier this week, but I feel like Ari and kind of think I should see if I can "un-join"...

One would think that an individual who works at a company firmly at the forefront of the internet revolution would do more than just dabble in technology but that's what I do.

I love to check out new websites: digg.com, gmail/google, beta versions of IE and Yahoo! and even silly social networking sites, but I just dabble. In fact, this blog is pretty lame, but hopefully I'll get better--thats what we are going to attempt here--now that people "might" read it.

I suck at updating this.

I'm in a kind of ignore the world zone right now.

Since I hurt my ankle last week, I don't necessarily want to think too far in the future. I've had to scrap all of my plans for fun, so why try to have fun?

I am "trying" to plan a bit though--will I go to school next fall? Will I find a new job? Will I just stay here because PC is a pretty cool town?

Saw this today on my starbucks cup. I kind of like it. I'll try to expound later, but i have the biggest fear of commitment. In my choices, in my telemark skiing even! So to remove my head might be a route I should start thinking about.

"The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your inner critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove our head as a barrier to your life" - Anne Morriss

Is there an "a-ha" solution to life?

I've been half working on this project at my job. It wasn't something assigned from our boss, nor really anything that we think will actually change strategic decisions... but still I spent a few hours on friday staring at numbers. I thought that the data would speak to me; that these seemingly random statistics, dollars and percentages would tell me answers when I didn't even know what question was being asked. They are good numbers and even seem "right" but they aren't anything but rows and columns in an excel spreadsheet. How can I take them to the next level? Can I make a 43 x 12 grid something that says "yes" or "no"?

I'm kind of feeling that way right now in general.

I have these pieces of work, friends, guys, and my days floating in front and behind me and I don't know what they all mean. I can put them in rows and columns of running times and conversations of topics and hours in front of the tv and jokes and stories, but I can't make them tell me what I should do.

My boss is leaving because the job is too stressful and not worth it. I go out 2-3 nights a week with a bunch of friends and just kind of end up a little hungover in the morning. I haven't dated a guy since I've been in Utah. What are these things saying? Something? Nothing? Everything?

Dude, I'm worthless at the blog. I think it stems from writing emails all day, everyday about work to either vendors, other employees, or staff. Something about sitting in front of a computer for 8-9 hours means you have little to no interest in dispersing thoughts after that point. That and no one reads this thing anyway, so its more of a cartharsis rather than a glimpse into my life. I'm going to try to bring it back to reality though, and see what I can do to make it routine again.

I could start to describe that I've been working a bunch at backcountry , skiing even more at the canyons and other places in UT. I could explain that I'm trying a social experiment with facebook and still living in park city. Or I could expound on the interesting changes occuring with my family, but I can't formulate my thoughts yet, so thats going to have to be a future post. Anyway, I'm just going to watch my movie and think some more... I'll update this better later.