Not tech related. 

This past month has been REALLY busy - my project that I've been working on for the past 5 or 6 months moves to production this week ... maybe more on that after the release ...  and the Safeco buyout from Liberty Mutual is due to close any day now, which I'm sure will bring a fresh round of changes and opportunities at work.

Besides working more hours and days than usual, I'm trying to train for the Seattle Marathon - funny it is sponsored by Amica (Rhode Island) and not Safeco (Seattle, WA).  My long run this week will be 12 miles ... which is going to be hard.  The three weekly maintenance runs are getting a little easier (Wed, Thur, Fri) - but by the Fri run my pace is slower than Wed's pace.

My list of things I want to do when I get free time or weekends back is growing - (I'm now building a backlog ;-) ... more on that later.

The pictures from our Alaska cruise are currently out on SkyDrive at: Alaska Cruise - which we took early August on Celebrity's Infinity.  The weather was half rainy half good, so all it all it was a great experience ... ate too much and drank too much - to the point of gaining 8 pounds in 7 days (all of which has come off now with the marathon training).

Oh yeah, and I've fallen behind on my blog reading ... lower in the priority queue right now, will be higher next week.