Morning folks!

Glad you had fun up on the mountain for a couple days. I've bascially been just counting the hours until this week is over because then I'm on vacation until January 2nd. I've actually had a few workouts lately. I had a chest and back workout at the gym last night and I had a short 2 mile run on Wednesday night. It was good times.

I'm sure everyone is heading out soon for holiday travel. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.

-Joe

Hey Y'all!

I'm here. I still haven't made it to the Y, but I have been productive. Both our cars now have Wisconsin plates and I got my drivers license taken care of. Overall, it only took about 45 min. at the DMV, so it could have been much worse. I had yet another ultrasound and (as I expected) the newest due date is March 21st. I now have 5 of them. I'm still telling people the baby is due "march-ish"

I'm ticked at my brother now because he flaked on me. He was supposed to come to the doctor with me today. The plan was to have him hang out with DS in the waiting room while i took care of my appointment and the glucose test. He overslept and called to tell me he just woke up as I was supposed to be leaving for my appiontment. Ugh. I'll have to bug him about that later. So I had to drag DS with me to both the appointmenta nd the blood test. The stuff they make you drink gave me quite the sugar high, and I'm crashing now so I feel like I could sleep.

otherwise I need to take a quick trip to the store to grab a few things I'll need for Christmas dinner and I'll be all set for this weekend. Tomorrow we'll probably hang out with one of DH's friends who is in town for the holiday. Christmas eve we're hanging with my in laws and probably going to mass with my FIL. Christmas day I'm cooking the big dinner and my folks and little brother are coming over.

soldevi: Sounds like the "alpine therapy" was needed. Enjoy your long weekend!

proto: I hope things melt on the trails! i wouldn't want to do loops on a street for 23 miles!

Well, I better go and grab some lunch. I hope everyone has Happy Holidays!

I'm still here. I completely hate this f***ing place, so I haven't posted much. I actually almost even lost my steam to post this post after I tried to log in, couldn't, went somewhere else on the site to log in, managed to get in that way, but then couldn't find the f***ing message boards. I think this is actually only my second post on these stupid forums ... not for lack of trying.

At any rate, I've been seriously busy lately! Between work, and Christmas shopping, and Christmas socializing (I was out till 4a.m. on Wednesday night -- I slept for over 12 hours last night, and I still don't feel normal!), and the gym, I haven't had a whole lot of free time! I'm among the many many people (it seems) who have all of next week off work, so it's a very welcome break!

Great to see you around here again crexion. Did you post about your trip? I'll have to go back and try to find it if you did.

I'd reply to everyone else, but I don't feel like opening up another f***ing browser and clicking all over the g**d*** place trying to find the thread so I could read what ya'll wrote again. Do we think this place is actually going to improve at all, or should we find some new digs?

Please everyone go check out runningAHEAD.com at some point. A fair number of CR's are there, the site is pretty fast, the forums are NICE compared to this terrible place. You can see the entire thread, no side-bar ads, etc. They also have a decent running log system, so that's a perk as well. Oh, and you only have to log in ONCE.

I'm already lurking there, this place is just painful to me. I'm ready to abandon ship as soon as you're with me. Active.com is not going to change, it's too large to really care about us little CRunner's. The admin over at RA is really busting his *** to make everyone feel welcome and get everyone's logs uploaded from CR.

Running Ahead

-Awol

They use CAS for there authenication which I've written connectors for in the application I work on. It's not designed to have an autologin feature but as long as you keep your browser window open you shouldn't have problems having to re-login. I leave my browser open all the time so I only have to login after long periods of inactivity (like the next day). But yeah, unless they change their authentication system it's never going to work if you open multiple browsers. When I do login I save the url of the thread I'm in then login and paste the url back into my address bar so I don't have to navigate back. That part is a bug in the Active implementation of CAS since it's a fundemental part of the CAS system to redirect back to the same page you were at before logging in. Ok, now back to running talk....