Alright, my last post can be disregarded. I can’t seem to get my mac to publish blogs quite like I could with my five year old Dell, and I can’t see myself paying $30 for a blog program that can’t do as much as Microsoft’s free program. Above is a picture from Courtenay’s super secret […]
Author Archives: Ben
Quality Returns (maybe)
There’s a program made my microsoft that is awesome, and the pricks over in Redmond can’t seem to figure out how to make it for Mac OSX. Since I’m the proud owner of a 2 month old Macbook, that really irritates me. The program is called Microsoft Live Writer and it make writing blogs really […]
Want Some Free K-Swiss Shoes?
Read this post to find out how you can replace your haggard winter trainers with a free pair of K’Ona running shoes from K-Swiss! It’s as easy as 1,2,3.
Parents Are Better
No matter how much the people around you like you and want you to be healthy, your parents are better at that. So when my parents flew in Friday afternoon in order to make sure I was on the path to health, I felt much better about my situation. Friday I was discharged after being […]
Until You Get Bored
I wrote a blog this morning and sent it to Courtenay for editing. Here is her response when I called her to ask how the editing process was going:
“That is the worst blog you’ve ever written, and I’m not even done figuring out what you’re trying to say in the second paragraph, which comes after a run-on partial sentence/paragraph in the introduction. Plus, sometimes your parenthetical asides are more distracting than helpful.â€
“Okay, I’ll rewrite it.â€
“No, I’ll just rewrite the whole thing, if I can even figure out what you’re trying to say.â€
“It’s okay, I’m a better writer; I’ll do it myselfâ€
“Yeah, you’re a much better writer… ‘Blah blah incomplete sentence blah, I feel better, I thought everyone hated me, but they don’t, and by-the-way I want a new bike.’â€
Below is the long version of that synopsis (rewritten by Courtenay Brown):
It’s Like Being On House – Without The Super Hot and Witty Docs
This morning and the rest of last night were a continuation of the awful throbbing headache and pain that has been gradually worsening over the past few days. After the second shot of morphine last night I passed out, only to be awoken 30 minutes later by another phlebotomist who needed an additional blood sample […]
My First Spinal Tap
8:15pm – I’m pretty sure that I don’t belong here. Sitting in a hospital bed in Colorado Springs waiting for a doctor someplace to tell another doctor someplace else that I should get some test that the OTC wasn’t able to do on site that will hopefully tell me why I’ve had a fever and […]
Don’t Train Through A Fever
Last week I came down with a fever. I was nauseous, hot, and achy all over. Then it went away, I felt like crap for another day and didn’t train, and then I felt awesome and gradually started getting back into a routine. Looking back, it wasn’t gradual enough, but as I lay here with […]
Bathroom Humor
Last weekend I got to see Courtenay – which was awesome – but the bitterness of saying goodbye to her for the next few months marked the start of an unexceptional week. I had some knee pain that started after running in the snow in Boulder over the weekend, then right as that was subsiding […]
The Good Life
I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Boulder right now with Courtenay Brown, Rory Seiter, and Mojdeh Hamidi. We’ve been spending the last couple of hours interrupting each other and getting stuff sort of done while at The Laughing Goat on Pearl Street. “Getting stuff done” consists of Rory interviewing me for the Checkmate Triathlon […]