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My manager seemed to not be able to make the kind of changes he had hoped for, in terms of offering me a coordinator, or a Project Manager type role in the training department.

But another manager had approached him to see if he would be opposed to an offer being made to me which would take me out of this department.

It has all happened...Monday morning I'll be working in a business development group as a Bid Manager.

I'm quite excited!

There's a lot I'm going to miss about my training position...but there's a tremendous growth in the new department, and I'd be foolish to not accept the promotion...a new chapter begins...

Sometimes I can be moved to tears by the most simple things...
Three times last night at the Calexico/Iron and Wine show at the Spectrum, I was overwhelmed with emotion and tears were streaming down my face.

I love moments like that.

What a show!

Well tomorrow I start in my new job. Everyone thinks I'm going to do great there. My last manager, my last supervisor, my current manager and current supervisor, clients I've worked with, all the people in my old department...

It's going to be a new road that's for sure. I was speaking with one of the people I'll have as a colleague, Douglas, he also thinks I'll do fine. Douglas was on one of the Risk Management courses I delivered...he mentioned to me that he found the course inspiring...that's a rare comment in a company as large as this one...

I'm not sure how much opportunity I'll have to inspire people in this new position...however HR did had me fill out a behavioral profile test. Here an execerpt of the results...

"The candidate is especially well equipped, from a behavioral perspective, to make a positive impact on, and contribution to, any organization in a variety of ways. He will accomplish this by motivating people to act, generating enthusiasm in others, radiating optimism and creating positive attitudes within the workplace."

We'll see...

Will I ever have the time to make entries?
Just back from a visit with Roderick and Cecile, nice to see them.
Rick cooked...veal and a mushroom reduction in congnac...
I projected that Cecile will deliver next Thursday.

We'll see...

The holiday season have very quickly arrived...
Our plans are a little unknown.
Though we know we have lots of obligations.

Very little preparations have been done (we're planning to decorate the tree tomorrow night).
Especially on my side...Loren's been busy, though I've still tons to do.
And we're not even hosting a dinner!
My career has changed (We have a backlog of work, and I feel useless because I'm in the learning curve of this new position) and all my routines.
We are swamped.

I know it'll all come together, and it'll be wonderful, but it's hard to see right now.

Late post for a modified routine.
Essentially: 7x a 3 minute cycle. Alternating 3min easy, followed by 3 hard. This gives 3 reps for the hard phase.
There's a chance that the intervals are too long.

Hard phase is roughly 80-90% effort. During the first hard phase we were doing about 52km/hm.
During the last, I was struggling to maintain 46km/hr...not sure about Gio.

When we repeat this exercise, we're going to target 42, 46, 50kn/hm for the effort phases.
If nothing else we won't feel so psycologically defeated with the lowering values :-)

Polar (claibrated 50-80% of estimated 185 max hr)
Time 21.03
In zone 17.02
Limits 140-170
Ave 157
Kcal 334
Fat 30%
Tot cal 3530

Cateye
Time 20.58
Ave 39.4
Max 53
Odo 316.1
Dist 13.72

Nisargadata (from mid-discussion):
"When the mind is engaged in serving the body, happiness is lost. To regain it, it seeks pleasure. The urge to be happy is right, but the means of securing it are misleading, unreliable and destructive of true happiness."

Questioner:
"Is pleasure always wrong?"

Nisargadata:
"The right state and use of the body and mind are intensely pleasant. It is the search for pleasure that is wrong."

From the Surrender to Your Own Self chapter.

I hope to have these entries so that I can reflect.
I'm mainly writing for me...and I have generally avoided typical blog activity of linking to other interesting sites.
To this day, I have not even considered looking at the statistics on this site.

Though today I read a very touching entry on another blog and would like to link.
I also hope it'll be available ten years from now.

It from yesterdays entry December 21 2005.

One line in particular is extraordinary...

This from Julie.
"Being in love with God is as easy as thinking about God."

Thanks Julie

Wow...
Seems like it's all done...

24th with Hannah, Colin and families, 25th with Hilary and Mel et al, and finally today at Donald's...
Marathon visits, accompanied by maraton eating...I embarrass myself each year.
I've eaten enough food to sustain a develloping country for a month. When will I learn?

Apparently not tonight...

As planned Gio and I are doing a bike ride on Mt. Royal tomorrow morning (well it's already 1:04 am...so I guess I mean later this morning...)

Doug will join us...his first ride on his new bike. That would be his Gary Fisher that was bought at OGC's years end warehouse sale...soon we'll know if his fork needs work...

I am to pick Doug up at his place for 10:30. He mentioned that he might be in "rough shape" as he'll be out late tonight (now). I promised to be in like mind/spirits...so I've poured myself a Bowmore after filling the flask for tomorrow's ride. That drink following all the red wine served at Donald's. A Novello Merlot, a Bruilly, and a funky Californian blend a la Syrah. The wine of course was preceeded by a couple of beers... I don't have much time to get some sleep...

I've still to change tires, I think it'll be prefect conditions for my home-made studded tires...and I'm going to take the risk..."a weighted measure concerning the probability and impacts associated with the occurance of an event"

Ahhh never mind...

Change tires, install pedals on the Green Machine, and put aside clothes which'll keep me warm for the ride. Currently we've got a forcast of -7C and Zero% chance of precipitation...and then to pack the back-pack as we've planned to be ready to do coffee on the trail...

Gotta run...gotta sleep...

Merry christmas and Season's Greetings to all...

Did one sunsalutation today.
It was slow and deliberate.

Bed beckons...
It's 2:51 am...alarm is set for 08:30...wish me luck...
I'm taking gio's lead...he said that conditions will be the same as our last ride on Mt. royal = icy

Exterior
Front = 224 1/2 inch self tapping robertson sheetmetal screws
Back = less then half as much with the center ones gournd down a bit

Interior
Notice that I'm lifting the extra innertube wich serves as protection...heavy tires!

It was either the make-shit gaffer-taped battery cover...or the batteries themselves, but I didn't get to ake very may photos...

We had a very funny chat with a couple from San Francisco. They were in Montreal on honeymoon. The guy had approached us to talk about the custom tires...his wife appeared a little later with her hat and mits in her hand, speaking in hushed tones about "an accident"...she wouldn't let him take them from her...I guess they had gotten wet...and not in the sink. She was quite embarrassed.

Gio was sporting his polar heartrate monitor...I'll probably be modifying the format of the Stats entries to include his metrics. We're both going to have to do a test to validate our max heartrates...

Bikes in Snow at the Chalet

Doug

Gio

Last night I was able to lift/jump into handstand from position 3 of surya namaskar.
I was even able to apparently freeze my body in near horizantalness just before my feet landed in chatuanga dandasan. Talk about float!

A call to actual asana? Perhaps tomorrow I'll get to the mat.