Half of Phil

 The calendar has officially turned to Fall and the weather has as well!! I've upped my running to 6 miles on Saturdays and 4 miles on Tue and Thur for the last week or so.  Times are getting better but I doutbt I'm going to get the '10 min' mile 5k this year.  There are still a few months left though so who knows. Overall my paces are getting better, so any progress is good progress. Weight wise I'm not really losing but I'm sure that's because I've been stress eating.  It's been hella stressful at work the last bit and life in general is getting to me more than it should Last saturday we did mulch in the yard and I went to lowes like a million times.  It almost felt like normal good ole pre-covid days.   Next committed update:10/8/20

I graduated from NCSSM in '94 and on their FB Alumni Page the other day a fellow alum (I think) whom I guess does some PR work for the school posted asking for folks to share about 'success stories' of alumni for the school to use particularly those from WNC. It started a pretty cool thread and we got to hear about some of the really amazing and inspiring things alumni from the school are doing.  We got doctors, astronauts, CEOs of food pantries, folks with PhDs doing amazing things at universities all over the country.  And hell it's really cool in a lot of ways, but one guy posed the question?  What's a success story?  I've been married now 20 years, got a great family, steady job in the rail industry, couple good kids.  Is that not a success? So he got me thinking, that yeah that is a hell of a success.  I fit that bill, I don't know his back story but I'm pretty proud of what I've accomplished in my nearly 45 years.  I certainly won't fit the