I'm going to write about something other than running.

I'm going to write about something other than running because I didn't run today.  I just didn't have it in my.  With my foot giving me a little bit of trouble, and there being a disgusting mix of snow and ice on the ground followed by a cold rain, I opted to take the 8 year old route, a phrase I adopted last night.  Really, this is going to be a series of disjointed thoughts that hopefully you won't have the patience to sit and read all the way through.

First off, I'm looking for the perfect music discovery site, which will lead me into a pseudo rant about social network sharing.  WHEN WILL GOOGLE+ BE ADDED TO SHARING OPTIONS?  I like google+.  I want it to work.  I want it to grow.  I want my friends and family to adopt it so I can leave Facebook forever, and inevitably it will turn into Facebook in popularity and annoyingness (spell check tells me annoyingness isn't a word.  Fuck spellcheck.).  Except I have faith in the fact that Google can do things better.  Let me submit "timeline" as my first piece of evidence.  I didn't get annoyed with any of the previous layout changes with Facebook.  Progress needs to happen right?  Timeline is dumb.  I'll deal with it.  Back to music.  I've tried mflow, We Are Hunted, Pandora, Grooveshark, Soundtracker, Last.fm, exfm, and now Spotify.  Spotify bothers me because it looks like iTunes.  If I wanted iTunes, I'd have an iPhone, an iPod, and a mac.  I don't.  I've got an Android, and Windows 7, which is great surprisingly.  Windows 8 is going to suck.  Mflow didn't do anything for me.  We Are Hunted turned me on to Lana Del Ray, which I love.  I dropped that into Pandora and got my two current favorite songs.  Cracks (Flux Pavilion Remix) by Freestylers, and Gold Dust by DJ Fresh.  If I were smarter, or less lazy, I'd have all these sites linked in my blog, and audio players for these songs.  I tried with exfm and it didn't work.  Last.fm doesn't have consistent sound quality when playing the radio.  Pandora gets too repetitive way too quick.  It's still currently my go to.  The radio feature on Grooveshark is ok too.  Play it and go.  But I'm trying to find new stuff.  And then you have good old recommendations from friends.  Tip the Van is the best of the recent suggestions.  Thanks Peter.  Chick ska, which is incredibly reminiscent of Dance Hall Crashers, which means it is awesome.  But I can share everything with Facebook and Twitter, but not Google+.  Of course, only about 6 other people I know are on google, but that will change.  And I know this blog won't reach enough people to get any great site suggestions, but if you have anything to share, whether its a website or just a band suggestion, then put it in the comments.  Marguerite Dodd, are you out there.... suggest me some music!

Second, I want to share my favorite new web discoveries.  Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, part of the Daily Beast.  Wait, what the fuck are my ears hearing.  Japanese techno?  What the hell Spotify?  It may not be Japanese, but its shit.  How did I get here?  Thumbs down, er, no, its not Pandora.  SKIP!  Ok, back to Sullivan.  Check out this link.  This is just an average post, of which he does many of throughout the day.  Pretty interesting stuff, especially as the election year heats up, GOP now and full election later.  Helps keep me informed.  

Third, I'm now on twitter.  @CSunderlage.  I felt the urge to figure it out.  Not that its complicated, but more to figure out the appeal.  I don't tweet much.  I like the flow of information.  I "watched" the olympic trials marathon via Flotrack's twitter feed because the USATF totally blew it and you couldn't get a live video anywhere.  But that's another story for a running related post.  Right now Flotrack it tweeting the LSU and Texas A&M meet.  And track nerd that I am, I'm enjoying it.  And then after the SOPA/PIPA blackouts, I started following Anonymous.  Cool stuff.  I watched as one website after another went "Tango down" due to ddos attacks.  But they also linked all kinds of cool news articles, many related to the technology world, which I'm sort of a nerd about.  The @Jon2012Girls were fun until Jon Huntsman dropped out of the Republican primary.  And Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) posts a lot about all the great hippy activities going on, like the Keystone Pipeline battle.  All in all, pretty cool.  Come find me on there.

Fourth, I love the google reader.  Keeps me up to date on my Sullivan, Cowboy Altitude blog that my buddy Matt runs about University of Wyoming sports.  Have to love the brown and yellow uni's.  Larry Nance Jr. is on the basketball team.  Badass.  And they have been doing some heavy football recruiting out of the Seattle area.  I also found a cool cooking blog.  Yes, I like cooking, and I'm a nerd, and this site is great. Sweet patato and parsnip maple bake?  Really?  Awesome.  

Since this is taking me several days to put together, I'll just have to say that Spotify is letting me down.  Maybe I need more time to learn it.  I did see a Google+ share button on Universal Cycles website.  That was totally cool.  I know they are coming. I was on the Universal Cycles because I was looking for a new saddle for my commuter bike, my baby.  It had an unfortunate roof top rack accident with the garage.  Fork is shot.  Sea tpost is shot.  Could be worse.  The frame is ok.  Glad it is a steel bike.  Traitor Cycles has an awesome crash replacement policy.  I just have to hope that they have the fork that matches the paint job of my bike.  If not, all black will do.  I'd ask for saddle recommendations but I know my blog audience is minuscule.  Which reminds me, if you're reading my blog, you should add it to google reader, and then you get a notification any time I present you with my writing awesomeness.  

I get to go home in another month.  I'm totally stoked.  I've got a little nephew who just started talking..... well, he says uh-oh.  And he's crawling now instead of wiggling his way across the room.  I can't wait to play with him for a whole week.  And at home I have two new kittens, Bear and Jasmine.  So cute.  Except Bear is infatuated with the monitor, cursor specifically, but also the letters appearing as I type them.  He makes it hard to get things done.  I tricked him into sleeping on the pillow facing away from the screen at the moment.  It's only a matter of time before he is back jumping on the keyboard..... like NOW!

I've got a race in a week.  Orcas Island, which is awesome.  Moran State Park.  It's a 25k.  Too bad I haven't been putting in my mega miles.  That would get me totally prepared for the race, for sure.  Anyway, a ferry ride, overnight stay in the bunkhouse, music, food, runner nerd-dom.  What's not to like.  Stay tuned for the race report.