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Universal Camping

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The Mercury News is reporting that the Girl Scouts and Brownies from Santa Clara County will be camping out on Saturday, October 25th. What’s odd about that? Nothing really, it’s what Girl Scouts do. Only these are Girl Scouts from Santa Clara Valley and while at one time the valley was a wide open expanse of grass and fields, it’s now largely strip malls and pavement, not really ideal for campouts. The solution? A sleepover at the Westfield mall.

The Scouts and their troop leaders and chaperones will be spending 12 hours at the shopping center participating in events that include shopping, eating, a dance party and learning about the Earth’s climate change with reps from the Climate Project.

I wonder if they will calculate the climatic impact on running the a/c, lights, etc for their camping trip vs simply sleeping under the stars….

I’ll post a full review shortly, but here’s my GPS data from Motionbased.com and my Garmin 305 GPS watch

Just a test, please ignore

Foggy morning run to Golden Gate Bridge

Originally uploaded by digiTofu

So I am writing this on my way to SF to pick up my race pack for tomorrow’s half marathon. I chose this image as it sort of represents alot of things that I am feeling right now about race. There’s the bridge, that I’ll be running to an fro on and spending 5 intimate miles on, under and around. There’s the fog which aside from the blustery coldness (if you know me at all you know what a wimp I am when it comes to cold weather), represents the unknown. You can only see so far ahead, and there’s a mystery as to what is beyond the visible. Will I be able to finish? Will I have fun? Will I further injure myself? Will I ever, ever sign up for anything like this again?

Right now I am nursing an IT band ‘thing’ - I am not prepared to call it an injury at this point, but after tomorrow, I just may change my diagnosis. I have been stretching it and rolling it, poking and prodding it but like a stubborn child, it appears that it is going to do things it’s own way. I plan on taking some meds, so I can at least ignore it during the run, hopefully that will help. I am prepared to stop running during the race if it comes to that, but I’d really feel like a chump if I quit. I guess I’ll know more tomorrow!

I am here in Boston for the 1st, 2nd Annual Podcamp. For those that are not familiar with Podcamp, it is essentially a podcasting conference that is modeled on the Barcamp ‘unconference’ style. That is to say it is less about rigid structures in terms of meetings, lectures, and the like, but more about community, learning and networking. So why did I leave the awesome weather of California bay area to come to Boston (which truth be told is very mild, considering I was half expecting freezing conditions)? I have been podcasting for over 2 years, and I have a tremendous amount of experience that I would like to share with folks. In addition, I have a few questions about WordPress blogs, SEO, and general things that I’d like to follow-up on with some folks. Who am I looking forward to seeing? Chris Penn (The host/creator/producer/grand wizard) of the Podcamp movement along with his partner in crime, Chris Brogan. CC Chapman (Accident Hash), Jennifer Iannolo (Food Philosophy), Mark Tafoya (reMARKable palate), Julien Smith (In Over Your Head), Ariel (Ariel Publicity), and so many, many others.

I can think of a few people that should be here, but for reasons unbeknownst to me, they aren’t. You know who you are and you will be missed. I’ll have a beer for you.

This is just the initial post - I am sure there’ll be much more over this weekend. Stay tuned for evidence of all the craziness that is PodCamp.

-Joe

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I have been so incredibly busy over the last few months, I have taken a bit of a break away from my podcast  - A Guy, a Girl, and a Bottle.  I felt very guilty at neglecting both the audience and the show itself, but I felt absolutely swamped with everything else.  I am very happy to have some time to get back to the fun of podcasting, and of course drinking wine.  Although podcasting itself can be quite a bit of work, picking a fun topic has really made the difference and it is hard to complain that doing a show is hard work when you are with great people, wonderful scenery, and excellent wine.  Recently Chef Mark and Jennifer from reMARKable Palate and Food Philosophy respectively were in town and Pam and I took them to a few of the local wineries here in the Santa Cruz mountains.  We had such a good time that I decided to post this video promo that we did a little while ago as sort of an ‘We’re Back’ announcement.  Grab a bottle and check out the show.

Joe

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