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One work-ish post and I disappear for weeks on end. Sorry about that - and for my non-responsiveness to the comments that’ve been coming in while I’ve been gone. I was a little down in the dumps for a while there, and work’s picked up in a major way.

So here’s the latest State of the Ben report. I’ve dropped out of the marathon training - I haven’t had a good run since my first week of training, I can’t figure out why, and I couldn’t finish a long run to save my life. After my 11-instead-of-13 run, I couldn’t even get through a simple 8 miler the following week. In short, I stopped having fun when I was running. In light of that, I decided to back off for a little while to reevaluate what I was doing, and I came to the conclusion that I was just doing too much too fast. Today, I’m going for my first run in the last two weeks. I don’t know how long or how far I’ll go; I’m just out to have a good time again. I also just finished signing up for a 5k next week that some of my friends are running in, so that should help reenergize me, too. I still want to run a marathon, but I’m pushing it off until at least next year.

As for work - I’ve been swamped (in a good way) for the last two weeks; we picked up a super-secret new project that I’m serving as tech lead for, so I’ve been working on getting the first iteration of that out the door. At the same time, I’m still putting in substantial time on my last project, trying to finish it up for launch this week. It’s rough, but I’m really enjoying the time I spend on the new project. I’m writing it in PHP5, and I’m using a lot of ideas from Ruby on Rails in making it work.

And now, off to run - have a great long weekend, everyone!