{"id":401,"date":"2008-01-03T00:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2008\/01\/03\/quiet-beginning\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T04:12:52","slug":"quiet-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2008\/01\/03\/quiet-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BC and I had a nice, low-key NYE, over at a friend&#8217;s house with a few other folks. Much fun was had playing <em>Godzilla Unleashed<\/em> on his Wii, and aside from a single glass of champagne at midnight I didn&#8217;t touch a drop (I drove up there so we didn&#8217;t have to deal with taxis or Metro). Driving home was the most challenging part &#8211; drunken people popping out in the road at random intervals, all trying to flag down any taxi they could. What. A. Mess. <\/p>\n<p>No new year&#8217;s day run this year &#8211; we got up too late, and then had to zip off to another get-together at Richard&#8217;s place in the afternoon. No matter, we got in a nice 4 miles today which, while cold, wasn&#8217;t bad. The cold symptoms are calming somewhat finally, but aren&#8217;t completely gone quite yet. Rest, relaxation, lots of water, and no drinking. Am going to begin exercising again, though. I just can&#8217;t wait any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, signed up for my third and final triathlon for this year, the Nation&#8217;s Triathlon here in DC. So I&#8217;m doing Columbia in May (Olympic distance), Nation&#8217;s Tri in September (Olympic again), and Ironman Arizona (aka IMZ) in November. And a couple of other running events, I&#8217;m sure, sprinkled in between (Lawyers Have Heart 10k in June, the National Press Club 5k in September, etc.). Aside from IMZ, they&#8217;re all local things, so not a ton of travel for races this year, which should be a bit easier, especially if I&#8217;m transitioning jobs later this year. <\/p>\n<p>We did a little shopping today, and I picked up some extra controllers for the two gaming systems, as well as recharging stations for both &#8211; no more disposable batteries. <\/p>\n<p>So, a nice quiet beginning to the year, which I hope bodes well for the rest of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC and I had a nice, low-key NYE, over at a friend&#8217;s house with a few other folks. Much fun was had playing Godzilla Unleashed on his Wii, and aside from a single glass of champagne at midnight I didn&#8217;t touch a drop (I drove up there so we didn&#8217;t have to deal with taxis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,51,23,27,45,15,5,13,8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","category-exercise","category-friends","category-games","category-geek","category-racing","category-relationships","category-running","category-stuff","category-triathlon","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}