Running and Outlook
Jun. 13th, 2005 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuNo, that's not a reference to two great things that go great together. Two separate topics. Really.
On the running front, I only ran twice last week. I should have gone for a third run over the weekend but never got around to it for various reasons. So I'm going to re-do the previous week on my Couch Potato to 5K schedule, starting tomorrow. Just as well, I think. And I find that I'm looking forward to it.
I've been running off and on (mostly off, I confess) since college. I don't especially enjoy getting all hot and sweaty, but I find that I really do enjoy the fact that at the end of 30 minutes of aerobic exercise I am hot, sweaty and breathing hard but not gasping like a beached fish. I enjoy it when I find the right rythym for movement, the one that lets me feel like I could go on indefinitely. In fact I can't, of course, but on those days I know could continue beyond my planned finish time, as opposed to the days when I eye the stopwatch with frantic attention, waiting for the first microsecond when I can stop.
And settling into that stride, or that posture, or that mental zone (or maybe all three) comes more easily as I get into better shape. So the fact that I'm looking forward to going for a run again tomorrow rather than dreading it as a chore is a very good sign.
In other news, I spent the day at a New Horizons class on Microsoft Outlook. My employer is making a long overdue and thoroughly necessary change to a new server set-up, including all new accounting software and all new software from the ground up (replacing FMS with ANDAR for anyone who knows anything about those). As part of the changeover, we're switching from Novell Groupwise for our email to Microsoft Outlook (which will mesh with ANDAR in a useful fashion that Groupwise, apparently, will not).
I was not thrilled when I heard that we were going to Outlook. It's notorious, in my understanding, for being vulnerable to viruses and other fun things. However, nobody asked me. I'll just hope that the IT people know what they're doing.
On the other hand, I have to admit that from what I learned today, Outlook does have a lot of features (features we'll actually use, at that) that Groupwise does not. We will be able to do a lot of things with it that we couldn't before, and I think they'll actually make life easier for us--which is, after all, the real point of any software. Assuming that it works reliably and doesn't announce to the virii of the world, "enter freely and of your own will!" it may actually be a good change.
Time will tell, I guess.
On the running front, I only ran twice last week. I should have gone for a third run over the weekend but never got around to it for various reasons. So I'm going to re-do the previous week on my Couch Potato to 5K schedule, starting tomorrow. Just as well, I think. And I find that I'm looking forward to it.
I've been running off and on (mostly off, I confess) since college. I don't especially enjoy getting all hot and sweaty, but I find that I really do enjoy the fact that at the end of 30 minutes of aerobic exercise I am hot, sweaty and breathing hard but not gasping like a beached fish. I enjoy it when I find the right rythym for movement, the one that lets me feel like I could go on indefinitely. In fact I can't, of course, but on those days I know could continue beyond my planned finish time, as opposed to the days when I eye the stopwatch with frantic attention, waiting for the first microsecond when I can stop.
And settling into that stride, or that posture, or that mental zone (or maybe all three) comes more easily as I get into better shape. So the fact that I'm looking forward to going for a run again tomorrow rather than dreading it as a chore is a very good sign.
In other news, I spent the day at a New Horizons class on Microsoft Outlook. My employer is making a long overdue and thoroughly necessary change to a new server set-up, including all new accounting software and all new software from the ground up (replacing FMS with ANDAR for anyone who knows anything about those). As part of the changeover, we're switching from Novell Groupwise for our email to Microsoft Outlook (which will mesh with ANDAR in a useful fashion that Groupwise, apparently, will not).
I was not thrilled when I heard that we were going to Outlook. It's notorious, in my understanding, for being vulnerable to viruses and other fun things. However, nobody asked me. I'll just hope that the IT people know what they're doing.
On the other hand, I have to admit that from what I learned today, Outlook does have a lot of features (features we'll actually use, at that) that Groupwise does not. We will be able to do a lot of things with it that we couldn't before, and I think they'll actually make life easier for us--which is, after all, the real point of any software. Assuming that it works reliably and doesn't announce to the virii of the world, "enter freely and of your own will!" it may actually be a good change.
Time will tell, I guess.
