Today was the 2011 CreekFest Chark Artist festival at the Pearl Fincher Art Museum in Spring, Texas. This is a Flickr photoset of the pics that I took today:

Mikie was one of the featured artists and she got tons of positive feedback during the 8 hours that she spent working today. This was a really well-organized event and everyone associated with it was just delightful.

Just finished reading a really interesting book called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. It was written by Joshua Foer and published in March, 2011 by Penguin Press.

Joshua — a man with an average memory — went on to win the U.S. Memory Championship. This book chronicles his path in an entertaining and informative way. Highly recommended.

Cardio at Lifetime Fitness

Mikie and I got in 30 minutes of cardio at the Lifetime Fitness in Atascocita. We used the Octane Fitness elliptical machines. Good workout!

Mikie and I both got our eyes checked today at the Target optical dept in Humble. I had some minor tweaks in my prescription and ordered some new glasses. Mikie is getting some new glasses as well, but — and this is very cool — is trying on some contact lenses. Hopefully that will work out OK.

So you all behave. We’ll be keeping an eye on you!

I stopped by Asia Market on the way home from work tonight and picked up some Thai food for dinner. This is a really cool little place. They have a small menu but the food is consistently good. The market stocks an assortment of hard-to-find Thai food supplies and miscellaneous other stuff. It is located at 1010 W Cavalcade. Here is a Google map of the location.

This is what it looks like from the street:

Mikie and Dutch

After dinner, Mikie and Dutch played in the living room.

Mikie and I got in a good cardio workout today at Lifetime Fitness. We did 35 minutes on some weird combination elliptical/stair-stepping machine, then did about 10 minutes of stretching followed by some time in the Jacuzzi. Nice!

Today is my sweetie’s birthday!!!!

Kingwood Fit Run

We had a nice run with the Kingwood Fit group today. The weather was wonderful and it definitely has a fall influence.

Here is the track as recorded by the Runkeeper app on my iPhone:

Here are a few pictures from the group that I took this morning:

We ran laps up and down the parking garage over in Kingwood. This is the one that is located just North of the river on the East side of West Lake Houston drive. Our group met their at 05:30. Here are the stats:

Duration: 00:44
Distance: 4.3 mi
Energy: 481 kcal
HeartRate: 135 bpm (avg), 169 bpm (max)
Pace: 9:30 min/mi (avg), 6.48 min/mi (max)

I weighed myself before and after and only lost about 3 oz of weight. This is with consuming about 21 oz of fluids. I crunched the numbers and it looks like a good hydration rate for me would be about 32 oz of fluid per hour, assuming that I’m working at about the same intensity and at the same temperature (about 88 degrees).

So about 4 cups of fluid per hour or one cup every 15 minutes.

I’m going to test that theory at my next run.

And now, for something completely different…