Red, Blue, Green.
(or, how 3 orthogonal colours are painting my world)

All the critical gear is moved out of the apartment! We’re heading to Pine Level this evening to load up our furniture then moving into the new place tomorrow morning in Raleigh!

In a somewhat last-ditch effort, I have gotten back into running in an attempt to get into shape before I get married (in less than a month!!) Martha has been running longer than I have, so as an early birthday present, I got her the Nike+ package for her iPod Nano (she was also super nice & got one for me!) We started using them pretty quickly and it’s been a lot of fun now that I know how far/how fast I’m running. You can actually see my last 5 runs in the flash widget on the left.

The second half of the story, however, is that Chris was so taken by the idea that he summarily purchased a Nike+ package for himself. Seeing as we all are participants in the upcoming wedding, he also thought it would be a cool idea to challenge us to really work before July 11. The result? The challenge you see on the right: the three of us must run 150 miles total by 6pm on July 11. This is a super-neat idea & I am very glad Chris came up with it — it simply remains to be seen whether or not we can do it. The flash widget will automatically update as we add runs to it, so our progress may be tracked.* Pretty cool!

It’s also been really nice to track my progress. I posted a screen capture of my Nike + iPod screen in iTunes previously, but here’s where I stand now:

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It’s 12:04 am on June 13th, so we’re less than 1 month away from the extravaganza that will be the marriage of myself and Martha! I got this sweet envelope today, too:

I distinctly remember sitting in this lady’s 3rd grade class on a visit to the NWA YWAM base & getting an A on a spelling quiz — cold. Now I think she’s back working in Albania, which is boss — I got to be around a lot of cool, adventurous people when I was a kid.

• Hillsong United — “a_CROSS // the_EARTH: Tear Down the Walls”
• Matt Blair — “Broken and Redeemed”
• Paramore — “Riot!”
• Port City Community Church — “We Wrote This, So There*”
• Radiohead — “Hail to the Thief”
• The Elms — “The Chess Hotel”

* Unofficial title — with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

Martha and I have been working towards running again consistently as the wedding approaches (1 month!), and it appears that we have found the perfect way to do so. During my three trips to the Apple Store to have a bad fan replaced, I played a bit with the Nike+iPod packages which have been around for a while. At $35 per, they’re not super expensive & we decided to give them a go. As it turns out, it’s a very well-executed idea that really has potential to change our work-out mentality. Screen grabs are below — you know we had to try it out!

Working on some sweet Matt Blair mixes from PC3 for Sean — this is getting to be an enjoyable diversion.

Still Amazing:

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A funny thing happens when Martha is in town, as I’ve been noticing recently. I never really have thought of myself as particularly unkempt, but maybe I’ve been fooling myself. Consider the following demonstration analysed against Martha’s state of being “in-town” or “out-of-town.”

(Martha: Out-of-Town)

(Martha: In-Town)

Funny how that works…