The event was setup via twtvite. I have seen this used for several events and it is great for tweetups. There was one slight problem I found out later. The event was setup in Mountain Standard Time. Arizona doesn’t use Day Light Savings Time and thus my Google calendar is set to Mountain Standard (Arizona) Time. So I was in downtown Phoenix an hour early. No worries though I just stopped by LUX coffee and ended up running into several friends.

After enjoying a great latte it was time to head over to #smunch at @galloblanco. So what the heck is Smunch? The local one that I went to is the brainchild of @matthewpetro @traciepetro @ToniaMBartz. They seen a lot of locals getting together for night time events, and asked why not brunch? From this the Saturday morning brunch was born.

While I didn’t really know anyone there I was instantly welcomed into the group. Some where regulars others were also first timers. We had great food, great company, great service and an overall fabulous time. The owner of Gallo Blanco (Doug Robson) seen the #smunch as we were live tweeting and even stopped by our table to say thanks and make sure everything was ok. He personally runs the @galloblanco twitter account, awesome!

I wrote a review on Yelp

Checked in on Foursqaure

Tweeted with the hashtag #smunch

And made lots of new friends.

So get out there and try something new, meet new people, have a good time and most of all …. Share your experiences.

The closest thing that I can relate it to is a shooting star.

Most of us have seen them. However when we do we are usually the only one in the crowd who gets to see it at that moment. It can be the most amazing experience even though it is always very quick and disappears without a trace. Sometimes the ill experienced try to explain the shooting star…however the only way to experience a shooting star is to be in the moment at the right place and the right time. I have had a few key moments on my trip that were….simply amazing…not to be explained because that would steal from their meaning.

after our first tasting for the day…don’t miss the tiger..that’s me

I just have to say that I had very low expectations for this weekend and it was far better than I could have ever imagined. If you would have told me that we would have had such an amazing time at happy hour I would have never believed it. In order to celebrate it I thought I would list out some random things about our weekend that I look forward to keeping in my memory. Great trip everybody!!

The List:

• a little chocolate sumptin sumptin
• Always making a mess on your shirt
• Hippie Chinese Lady
• River dance Irish jig
• Jazz at the pearl (Closed)
• Random lunch in Mountain View *smile*
• Walking a block to make it a shorter drive
• Walking in the Forest
• Someone breaking rules in the forest
• Do you like fish?
• Almost crashing through toll both
• Almost getting lost in Sausalito Mountains
• Closing down Lou’s Jazz club
• Closing down dirty martini – twice
• After party in the room
• Portable speaker fun
• Fresh squeezed OJ
• BOBBIEAH
• Monksters
• Barry’s Chinese Shake
• Served wine in line @ Taylors
• Sipping the F in red
• Napa Castle
• Camera Timer shots times 3
• Wine barrel bathroom
• Uncontrollable laughter
• Relaxin at the spa
• One person always falling asleep
• Largest circular table ever
• Lost scarf = free sparkling wine
• 3 Girls are somehow more efficient than 1 guy
• Battling GPS, Googleberry always wins
• Don’t wake the grapes
• Japanese tea garden
• The ark, The boat

I am certain that you may have some other random memories, feel free to leave a comment here with any additional moments you would like to share.

“delivers the pinnacle of our weekend” ~ Bobby

calendar and such on my handheld when I decided to check the App World. First up was Pandora. I decided to install it real quickly, thanks to the App Store and Vendors making custom mobile apps, this went very fast.Further I was able to create a new account right on the handheld. I have yet to be to Pandora’s website.

After creating a few stations I remembered that my Sonos system has some tie-in with Pandora. Took me about 1 minute on the laptop to add the Pandora service to my Sonos system, and Viola – I was listening to a custom playlist that I created on my BlackBerry. This is so cool!!

The Music that was coming from the BlackBerry was actually really good considering the size of the device (and hence speakers), but one thing I remembered was that at home my Bold was connected via Wi-Fi. I decided to do a little test when I left for work. I plugged my BlackBerry into my car stereo, very simple since the BlackBerry uses a standard headphone jack. This was awesome I was listening to a custom station, which was Dave Matthews, in my car and it sounded good. Even better when I drove away from the house the music never skipped, stuttered or dropped as my device simply switched from Wi-Fi to3G.

Score for techies and music lovers all over. I can think of endless possibilities for my new Pandora addiction.

Only downside…30 minute drive to work and my Bold was getting hot.

As the snooze button kept reappearing in my life every 5 minutes 5:30 quickly became 6:05.

I could hear the Matrix in my head "get up trinity, GET UP!" At this point I had turned my thoughts of running this morning into thoughts of taking a nice relaxing walk. At least I would be doing some physical activity that would make the rest of my day more productive. In a zombie like state I proceeded to put on my workout gear, grab my iPod and get this thing going. I started queuing up the iPod to the audio book I have been listening to, however the audio books I listen to tend to require full attention so I decided to throw on some music as I continued getting ready. Then I remembered I made some new playlists last night of some of my older techno/trance albums. DJ John Kelly – Funky Desert Breaks 2 was my selection today. Fully intending on putting the audio book on once I got outside, I let the gradual start to the album guide me.

I exited the house and decided to finish the song I was on, forgetting that it was 80 minutes worth of non-stop tracks. Then it happened [insert epiphany here]. My body began locomotion all by itself. The music was powering my soul and suddenly I started running, in an awkward Forest Gump kinda way. Continuing down the street I seemed to forget about the audio book, my foot didn’t seem to hurt anymore and the soreness in my legs was waning. My heart and lungs seemed to be in a perfect symbiotic relationship giving my body the oxygen it needed.

While not the fastest run I ever did, it was very rewarding. I never did turn the audio book on and then I realized that maybe sometimes all life needs is a good soundtrack, what is your soundtrack today?

First off the results of the run were 145 minutes or 2 hours 25 minutes to run 14.0 miles. Very close to the time I would need to finish the marathon in 4.5 hours. However after running at that speed for that long there is no way I could make the full 26.2 and keep up that speed. So I will be happy to be under 5 hours.

Also beware there are lots and lots of pictures with this post and an official RFC for @halo_slippin or Dr Halo or Dr slippin I don’t know. Lets start with  the picture of the finish of the run

During the run I took one of these gels every 40 minutes

During the run I also finished off two of these .7 liter water bottles (yes that means I had to jump off the treadmill, take off my shoes and go refill it)

Now for after the run this involves making a shake. Includes 1 scoop of protein blend

 
You can click on this picture to see the stats on the protein

1/2 cup of soy milk

1 egg white and 1 full egg. Yes I put them in the shake raw, and have been for months, I am still alive. I just skip the second egg yolk because of the high cholesterol

Also if somebody could tell me why there is a cow on and egg box would really help???

1/2 cup of frozen blueberries, really adds to the flavor

Not pictured was a few shakes of cinnamon for flavor, about 6 icecubes and a dash of water so it stays liquid and doesn’t turn into paste.

Then throw it all together in my trusty magic bullet and perfect shake done.

If you made it here I am surprised but thanks for reading all the way to the bottom

Now if someone can explain to me how the blackberry can track satellites while being buried in my fanny pack, that would be great.

As you can see from the picture even in my office where I took this picture it stated it is tracking 9 satellites????

Great job Adapta for giving us SpeedOMeter for free.

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