Half of Phil

2919 is closing fast!  It's been 3.5 years since I started this journey to get in better health.  I've kept up with exercise this year, but haven't lost any weight this year.  This is the first year of the journey I've finished at a net 0 but considering I've been up 5-10 lbs several times this year to get back to net 0. I finished the Jingle Bull Run with a pace of 11:08 min/mile which should have gotten me my under 35 min finish, but I guess the course was a bit longer than 3.1.  At any rate I finished nearly 5 min under my time for the same race last year. I got the guard installed on my table saw which was the last thing I wanted to do to consider my shop complete for the year.  I'm hoping to get to work out there some more over the holidays. This has been a challenging year at work, but we did get some recognition for a big project I've been working on the last 18 months so that was nice. I'm not set on what goals I

I'm struggling to accept the fact that this year is nearly over.  Christmas will be here in less than 20 days.  Just doesn't seem right to me. This week we've had nothing but celebrations of sorts all week long.  Tuesday we had a ugly sweater pizza party, Wednesday we got to go curling, which was actually a lot of fun and yesterday we had a 2019 celebration luncheon.  We used to have the luncheons quarterly, but as of late we've been lucky to have one a year. At the luncheon a team I've let this year won an award for excellence in engineering for pioneering our company moving services to the cloud.  It's cool to get recognized. I've struggled to control my intake the last couple weeks with Turkey day and all the free food at work.  That's probably a cop out, it's not Turkey Day or free food that's to blame it's me.  I get that.  Here's to the next few weeks being better. We have a 5k on the 14th which isn't far away, not sure