Puppy Love Run

So I was just telling AJ and Laetitia that I would love to enter a run or marathon or something where I could do it with Pumpkin, since we go running in the mornings during the week. Well, Laetitia found something just in the nick of time - The Puppy Love run, which is a 5K benefit for the Helen Woodward Animal Center. I got very excited, since it's next Saturday, and we run 5K in the mornings anyway, so we're ready to go. So, as part of the registration, they set us up with a donation page:
Team Pumpkin for the 2010 Puppy Love Run

If you want to help the animals here, then here's your chance to do it through TEAM PUMPKIN! Hopefully, we'll get lots of pictures and stuff, and at the very least, set a baseline time for us to try to beat next year :-)

iPhone App for Resolutions

I'm letting everyone I know about this awesome iPhone/Touch app called Lose It! (iTunes link). I've been using it for almost a year now to count calories, carbs, and track exercise and weigh ins, and it's worked great. Most of last year, I kept really tight to the program and lost 13 lbs while still eating the foods we normally eat, including restaurants and fast food. It was a great motivator for exercise, which Pumpkin also appreciated since I take her along on the morning jogs.

Anyway, Lose It! now supports adding friends so you can track and encourage each other (website), so if anyone downloads the app and wants to get serious, you can add me as porfitron(at)yahoo.com.

I started off this Sunday with a goal to trim of 7 lbs by early February, so anyone else is welcome to hop on the bandwagon.

Stylophone Party at DivX

Francoise made one of my Christmas wishes come true, by getting me a Stylophone Beatbox. Today, I showed it off to Al and Ryan, and Al brought over his classic Stylophone for a spontaneous jam session with Ryan on the beats. I captured the moment on my Flip Video MinoHD (gift from Laetita), and re-muxed the video to MKV so I could share it in all its HD glory through the DivX Plus Web Player... ENJOY!

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