I run nine miles and Aidan decides to use the potty. I don't know what is a bigger event to celebrate

You know what really grinds my gears.  A lack of outside internet access at work.  I did not realize how much I depend on the web to do my job.  Okay, that is a bit of an exaggeration.  I depend on the web to keep me sane during the workday.  Also, the only time I really get to update this blog is at work.  So last Friday I arrive at the office and find that I have no internet.  Every other computer in the office does.  I do all the dime store tech support that I can think of.  No luck. I call the guy our office uses for tech support.  He is less than useful.  Fast forward to today.  I still have no internet I my office.  However, I can not recall a time where I have been more productive. 


So between this and some other things happening in my life both personally and professionally I have decided it is time for me to start being an attorney again, rather than just a guy who works as an attorney.  There is a difference. 


On to the running news.  No races since last week.  However, on Sunday I did nine miles in 1:38:13.  This marks the longest I have run in one stretch since the turn of the century.  I am not going to sit here and say the whole thing felt like sunshine and rainbows.  There was a pretty rough patch between miles seven and eight.  The training schedule calls for an 11 miler this weekend.  Having never run further than 10 miles I am looking forward to it and dreading it.  


In non running related news, Aidan's on again and off again battle with the potty continues.  Most days when I pick him up after work I am handed about two or three bags of clothing that has suffered collateral damage from his ongoing war against potty terrorism.  Today at daycare he decided he would use it.  Mostly because he knew that if he used the potty I had promised to take him to Target to get the big Sheriff Woody toy from Toy Story with the pull string.  At almost three-years-old he is a diabolical genius.  He only decides to use the potty if he has been promised a substantial enough reward.  The first time he got Knapford Station for his Thomas the Tank Engine set and the second time he got the big Buzz Lightyear figure.  The kid is a better negotiator than a lot of the attorneys I have to fight.  So I am 100% sure that Dori and I got duped and come tomorrow Aidan will refuse to use the potty again.  But it was worth it to watch him run around the house with his Buzz and Sheriff Woody singing "You've got a friend in me" over and over. 


Between donations made on-line and off-line I have raised over $600 for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  It is my goal to raise at least $3,000.00.  Thank you to everyone who has already donated.  Every donation, of any amount, helps this worthy cause.  For those of you holding out to see if me running a marathon is even in the realm of possible I say get out your wallets.  I ran nine damn miles.  Only 17.2 more to go for a marathon.

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