Running with the Pack Podcast

Although we’ve talked about it for a few years now, Andrew and I finally decided to join a community-supported agriculture program this year. Essentially, we bought a “share” of what a particular local farm produces for the next six months. In this case, it’s Village Acres Farm, which is an organic family-run farm. Each week, we go pick up a box and some bags of seasonal fruits and vegetables. You can also pay more for an “egg-share”, “flower-share”, meat, baked goods, cheese, and other products.

Today was our first weekly pick up and we didn’t quite know what to expect. We got a dozen eggs (apparently the hens are happy) and a box of veggies: bok choy, spinach, asparagus, lettuce, radishes, rosemary, and celeriac. Personally, I’ve never heard of celeriac before, but it’s a root vegetable in the celery family that is like a potato in consistency.

The share also included a newsletter about the farm and upcoming events as well as recipes for dishes that could be made using many of the veggies provided. We decided to try the quiche recipe (with some modifications) and it came out very well. We shredded some celeriac and used it as the crust for the quiche.

[LOL...Andrew just came out of the kitchen with two hands full of lettuce, which he is eating without dressing or utensils.]

This will be a bit of an adventure. It should help us eat healthier, broaden my cooking horizons, and support a local organic farm. Downsides? Not many. We had to pay for the share in advance and we could get more than we can eat when the farm is producing in full swing, but I don’t mind giving away my extras when we have them.

I’m having problems with something in my hip area…not sure what exactly, but I’m guessing that I pulled a muscle or strained a tendon in my right hip area. Anyway, I’m going to give cross-training a try so I can keep in shape and rest the injury. I’m still planning to run a couple of times a week, but I’m going to go to the gym as well and do work on stair climbers and the orbital. I’m hoping to build up some leg strength and get in some low-impact cardio.

My problem is that Nike+ doesn’t track cross-training workouts. So while I’m still being “good” and working out, I don’t get the same kind of tracking and reward from the Nike+ training system. Plus I have a 250 mile challenge with an old friend in Seattle, which I could lose if I don’t do track-able activities. It’s not the end of the world and I’ll still track what I can and I would still recommend the system to anyone and everyone, but these little annoyances add up.

The aliens are here, they’re playing music, and lead by Bjork!

I’m a big fan of what I’ve seen in multi-touch interfaces. The keyboard/mouse have been great for the last 20 years, but they have also shaped (and limited) how we think about computing. Then something like this comes along and gets me excited about input and interaction again.

There are more demos of this on YouTube.

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