SO MUCH FUN!

Posted by Grant on 12. March 2009 21:12

Lest you think I'm sulking and in a downward spiral from my previous post, it's not the case!  I got some concerned emails and twitter messages (I guess these are 'Tweets'), and I appreciate the support, but I was just venting a bit and thought I'd share a glimpse behind the scenes at life at Untamed Global Headquarters.  Like most everything in life, there are ups and downs.  That was a peak at some of the downs.

To switch gears, I can share a recent high I recently enjoyed . . . while vetting the final course for the rogaine last week I had a phenomenal long run through the snow and rain and slush.  It really was fantastic, about 4 hours of running/hiking/jogging through this great forested ridge between Zurich and the more serious Alps.  The rain became sleet and then snow as I worked my way higher and higher.  An unexpected bonus was that I tucked my IPod deep down in my waterproof bag, and secured it in my pack (30L Aarn pack, in case you're curious).  After my Prodigy MP3s had all been played the IPod kicked over to general random mode and cued up an entertaining menagerie of music for the next 3 hours.  My wife controls the ITunes account and my music occupies a small corner of the music library on our IPods -- we sync them up to a shared ITunes database and so lots of the material is her stuff.  I was treated to lots of music I haven't listened to in years; songs from the Bare Nake Ladies, Miles Davis, Sinead Lohen.  It would've been a pain to dig through my pack and change the music, so I just rolled with it.

By far the best, however, came during my final 30 minutes along the narrow and windy downhill towards home.  A series of back-to-back Ani Difranco songs (like 4 of them, what are the odds in a library of thousands of songs?) came on to give me a fantastic adrenaline boost.  I know, I might not strike you as the Ani Difranco type but when she gets fired up with her counter-culture anthems (songs like Napolean, Little Plastic Castle, and a fiesty rendition of Fuel), I can get into that.  It was a great punctuation point to a the run.  

I might have to add Difranco into my regular rotation of Rage Against the Machine, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, and Janes Addiction.  Can you tell I went to college in the mid-90s?  

So, no need to talk me off a ledge or anything . . . quite the contrary.  There's lots of fun being had around here!