The rocket orrery thingy at Disney.

Me taking a picture of Kent taking a picture of me riding the rocket orrery thingy at Disney.

I actually went out and had something resembling a social life last night. A bunch of folks from work met up at a bar in Gulfport and we all got really silly doing Karaoke. There weren't many people there besides our crowd, so it was easy to get up and make a fool of oneself. It was really amazingly fun; I need to get out and socialize more often. It's just a bit of a pain driving all the way to Gulfport to do it.

So, I need to work on finding social outlets around here. Kent and I had a thoroughly marvelous time when we went out dancing on our vacation, but we did decide that we'd each seek out some lessons so we could get better. Neither of us really know how to salsa/latin dance, and we both want to get better at the Swing (finally learn that lindy-hop!) So once in the next couple of weeks I think I'm going to scout out places that offer dance lessons.

I went running this morning, for the first time in ages. (Treadmill running doesn't count, to me.) I didn't go very far; only about a mile or so. However, I was able to do that mile pretty easily, and I should be able to bump it up to two miles fairly quickly. Don't want to cripple myself, but at the same time I want to be ready for the Classic (10K) in April. I have just over two months to train. Since I'm not trying to break any speed records I think that'll be enough time. I just want to get to the point where I can run the whole distance. Might be a very sloooooow run, but that's okay.