Running and Archiving

I've finally, almost a month later, finished collecting all the pictures and videos from Audrey's first year. That was a task. I took my time and tried to get it right so I didn't leave anything out. Don't get me wrong, I could take another year organizing them into events with descriptions and what not, and I just may do that on Flickr in my spare time, but for now I am DONE. It has taken a solid month to get all this together. Here's a mosaic I made of the one-a-days that I made during the first year. I tried to make one with all 3400 pictures earlier, but the computer decided that was too much to ask of it.

I've made DVDs of the official videos, and now I have data discs of the pictures and .mp4s of the videos. I think it's safe to say that the year has been backed up for posterity. One final drop onto the external hard drive and I think we'll have a brand new slate to work from on the laptop. It's a good thing, too, because I had filled the hard drive up. My goal is to take less this year, and I'm certain that will happen. We're not dedicated to getting a good picture on the 9th of every month this year, but more focused on little events and trips.

When it was all said and done we averaged just under 10 photographs a day during Audrey's 1st year. I don't think there are 10 photos in existence of my first year. LOL. 3438 pictures are on the DVD archive of the first year of pictures.

This brings me to my running. I'm trying to train myself up to the Army's Physical Fitness Test (referred to APFT from here on in this blog, please make a note of it) standards. I am terrible with keeping a written journal, mainly because this entails finding it. So, here it goes. I thought I'd just note my times in here so it may keep me motivated to get to the point where I can pass the APFT.

Today I went one mile and the time was 13:27. Yes, that is pretty pathetic, but it's quite an improvement from middle school and high school because I used to not finish because after 20 minutes they stopped the exercise. HA HA HA. Pretty weak kid. I don't even know where I'm shooting for now. I know you have to run 2 miles on the test. What's worse is the pushups and situps which are in the most pathetic state. I think I can do 5 situps and 0 pushups.

I also have to weigh 238 or 242 (depending on if they measure me 6'6" or 6'7"). I think I have shrunk over the years an inch. That would mean I would need to be 238 and that is 42 pounds lower than what I am now. I will have all the ladies at work worried for my health when I'm that weight. I've already lost about 82 pounds so far, so that would be a total of 124 pounds lost.

Well, they just better get ready to worry. I'm pretty determined to get down there this time. At least it gives me something positive to work towards that doesn't involve work.

Audrey got a car today from NeNe. It was a late birthday present, and Jenn went and picked it up while I was in a neverending workshop from 8 to 4. I heard I was leaving my job. I wished! I'd leave it in a nice red car like Audrey's!