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January 2008 - Posts

  • Ice Skating

    The Fuser office is in downtown Boulder - we have a fantastic location and there's always a lot to see and do around town.  I have always wanted to go ice skating on the One Boulder Plaza Ice Rink, so Kevin and I made plans to head up to the rink on a Wednesday at lunch to take advantage of discount skating.  When planning our outing, we didn't know that the Wednesday of our choice would be one of the coldest days in Boulder this winter, but we bundled up and walked up the street to the rink anyway.  Interestingly, no one else from the Fuser office chose to spend their lunch skating on the rink in the freezing cold with us, but they did send us with a camera and video camera.  We had a great time skating, drank delicious hot chocolate from The Tea Spot, and headed back to work.  Next time, though, I think I might bring some mittens along.

     

                                       

                                                     About to fall, but smiling for the camera.

                                        
                                                    Kevin grooving to the music on the rink

                                          

                                                Taking our last lap before heading back to work.

                          

                                                            At long last, here is the video!

     
     


     

  • Exercise Makes Me Want to Check My Email


     

    In what appears to be an on-going effort to improve my health I find myself “hitting the gym” from time-to-time. Actually, time-to-time is the real problem in that last sentence and that’s why I recently changed time-to-time to most of the time. Kinda depressing isn’t it? I’m constantly fighting a battle between a healthy weight and my friends calling to go out for dinner and drinks.

     

    I spend most of my time sweating the pounds off on the treadmill.  The treadmill is not only a great way to get the cardio I’m looking for, it’s also one of the best places that I’ve found to think about all the stuff I did during the day, all of the stuff that I didn’t get done and those few emails I forgot to write.  I need one of Brad Feld’s Treadputers, that way I wouldn’t lose my thoughts while I’m logging miles at the gym.

     

    All that thinking on the treadmill starts to build up towards the end of the workout. I start thinking about all of the people I need to communicate with and those emails that I didn’t respond to during the day. By the time the treadmill beeps telling me my workout is complete, I’ve collected a number of tasks, emails and ideas that need to be taken care of or noted. If there was only a way for me to send an email to myself to remind me of all of that stuff I thought of on the treadmill. And, maybe check in on my work email to see what’s happened since I left the office.

     

    Luckily my gym has one computer where members take few seconds to check one of their email accounts or browse their favorite website. This is where Fuser has brought it all together and simplified my life. After a great workout I hop off the treadmill, speed across the room to the computer and log into Fuser. Trying to keep all of those great things I thought about on the treadmill on the tip of my tongue I quickly compose a new email to myself. Then with the flick of a button I filter out all my email accounts except for my work account and breathe a sigh of relief as I realize that everything is okay at the office.


     

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