Goals

A friend of mine recently completed the San Francisco Marathon.  She not only completed it, but also managed to do so on probably a few months training.  The day of the marathon happened to fall 9 months to the day before I turn 30.  I started to think about what I have done in my life and what I want to do.  I have never been one to set goals for the upcoming year when I have a birthday, but that is something I have experienced through the HyWy.  I decided to set myself some goals for the remaining months prior to my 30th birthday.  I decided that I too want to run a marathon before I turn 30.  In setting that goal for myself I realized I also need to train and find a marathon that I want to run.  I thought I could run 26.2 miles on the San Francisco Marathon course with a watch, but then I thought that many people (the HyWy being first in line for this list) would likely see to it that I do something more practical and safe.  So what other goals should I set for my 30th birthday?  Learn to play a song on the guitar?  How about averaging one post a week on the blog?  That goal brings to mind another thought.  The purpose of this blog was initially to tell people about interesting things I heard about or interesting articles I read.  I doubt many people read the blog regularly save for a few who have it on an RSS feed, but then I realized the real benefit of blogging: learning to love to write again.  I haven't enjoyed writing ever.  When I say ever I mean ever.  In that way I'm a true engineer.  I enjoy math and science and I have never enjoyed my English classes (sorry to the Beav if she ever reads this).  Through the blog I have found a new interest and excitement in writing.  So there are two goals.  I also have a third, but I'm so excited to do it right now I'm just going to end the post.