Man have I been busy lately. Let's see if I can recap last weekend. It started off with a LAN party at rico's house. This LAN was quite different from the normal logikal/pens LAN parties. First off, there were several girls there who were serving us food and drinks. It was quite awkward at times to see these girls act as 50's housewives. Oh well, I got my cookies :) Also, there was a pool there and several people went swimming while the rest of us played more games. Never had that happen before. All in all it was a good LAN. Thanks rico!

I got back home around 1'ish and went to bed. I got up at 4:30am to drive down to Camp Pendleton to run in the World Famous Mud Run. Brad, Joe, Greg and myself all participated in this. It was quite the interesting run. Nothing quite like what we were expecting. I was stupid and wore clothes that soaked up a bunch of water. I ended up running with an extra 15 pounds of water on me. There were a bunch of river crossings, tons of sand running, mud pits, hay bales, running across tires, wall climbing, lake crossing, slippery hill climbing, and finally army crawling through a mud lake :) It was really tough, but I can already tell I'm gonna do it again next year. Brad and Greg ended up getting 9th and 10th place in our age group and I got 13th place. Our times were like, 1:04 for 10k (6.2 mi for you non-metric geeks). We had a TON of fun doing this and I recommend it to all you runners out there.

After the run, I went home to take a 3 hour power nap. At 4:30, Brad and I went to the ARC to prepare for a UCI athletics fundraiser. It was quite the social event. Many important people were there (important relative to UCI athletics anyways). Brad and I got the best job. We were given 10 disposable cameras and had to go around taking pictures of everyone having fun. We ended up talking to pretty much everyone there, including Chancellor Ciccerone and our AD Bob Chichester. It was a lot of fun for everyone involved, even though Brad and I were thoroughly tired. The UCI Athletic department raised a bunch of money through auctions and donations. Go UCI Athletics!