Darryl Hoytt's Personal Blog

That's right the number 4 ranked team in the nation per two different polls relating to high school football teams in the Grant Pacers of Sacramento are playing the Folsom Bulldogs in Folsom tonight. Folsom is ranked number 2 in the Greater Sacramento region with the Grant Pacers being number 1 in the Sacramento Region.

Had a power outage today and I was away from the office but everything came back online by itself except the music didn't begin streaming. The cause of the power outage I am guessing is the street construction about a block away. I have not been told that the construction is officially the cause of the power outage so I will have to check sources later but its my guess.

I will have to design a batch script for the various components of the music to come up in proper order once the system is rebooted for my music server since this is the only system that didn't restart the software I use properly. When I get a chance I will test it on my backup music server. The challenge will be automating the music stream start and encoders.

My Linux boxes that host my web servers & game servers appear to have come back and executed the start-up scripts just fine, the server that streams the music is on Windows.

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Been falling behind in my posts about running and Vibram five Finger KSO's, and I'm here to report the runs have been going well even with my gardening and other home projects and getting used to another schedule!

I have been running intervals and as stated earlier that put a new type of stress on the calves and I think I'm finally almost out of the discomfiture that caused mostly.

The thing about it running shorter interval distances trying for speed really gets you up on your toes and the balls of your feet more than the 5k's & 10k's. Especially once you wind down to doing anything under 400 meters! Being on your toes and forefront of your feet really stretch calves and ligaments in a way not used before in the typical running shoe circa now!

I also strange enough noticed that with the VFF's (Vibram Five Fingers) my toe nails are growing out! Let me explain.

I was on the back end of doing the end of my interval workouts a week or two ago and I noticed as I got up on my toes I felt a weird pulling sensation as my feet gripped the ground, my toe nails!

Before in umm ... ahem what passes for normal running shoes my toe nails took a beating and rarely grew out especially the toes right next to my big toe which are the same length and maybe a tad longer than my big toe. In fact my toes right next to the big daddy toe always had crunched up bloody looking toe nails that were about 1/8^th of an inch thick.

This is the first time I could ever recall having intact regular sized toe nails that weren't, half off or mutant looking. Another unexpected benefit of running in VFF's barefoot minimalist style!

Next up is a 10k this coming Sunday at the first annual Natomas Mayday run here in Sacramento California right here in my neighborhood utilizing part of my normal road course. How exciting!

Anyway her is the link to the run Sunday: http://www.natomasmaydayrun.org/

I'm signed up and not totally in the shape I want but ready to go come on out and join us and run part of my course!

Going to be cruising in my VFF KSO's on this run as well of course!

Oh yes in case you are confused even though I have discomfort getting used to the VFF's it is well worth it my running has become more efficient and the only discomfort are a little getting used to the calves doing the job they were meant to do

Wow its late for me time to go to bed!

Finally able to get some pictures of my vegetable and flower gardens.

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Well last week I pretty much got the vegetable garden in the backyard and the flower gardens in the front yard finished except some spaces purposely left open for future updates or seasonal vegetation.

I rototilled around the huge artichoke plant that is now producing like crazy. In the garden on the other corner in backyard I tilled around the existing sage, thyme, parsley, chives & strawberries that stayed over the winter.

To compliment my existing herbs I planted, basil (didn't last over winter), mint & more chives, & green onions.

I planted Roma, Big Boy, & Yellow pear tomato plants. I also planted eggplant, hot jalapeno, Serrano, banana, red chili & three kinds of bell peppers.

For the root type vegetables I planted red potatoes, garlic, & red onion.

I also planted watermelon, zucchini squash, mammoth sunflowers, sweet corn, Swiss chard, collard greens, and mustard greens. Today I got some celery, cilantro & summer squash.

I almost forgot I also planted last week some peas, green beans, black-eyed peas (cow peas), a grape vine & another blueberry bush.

I still have a raspberry vine & what I believe is a blueberry plant from last year that survived the artichoke bush from last year. Reminds me I also planted some asparagus I hope is out of the way. Last year the asparagus, grapes raspberries, greens, Swiss chard and other veggies were over run by the artichoke bush.

Last week I also made repairs and changes to the drip/watering system.

Today I also pulled up about 5 bags of weeds from the small corridor between homes I have as well as cut the grass and edged with the weed eater and pressure washed the patio and sidewalks in the backyard around the pool. Now I have the pool pumps going to get the dirt that inadvertently got in the pool from pressure washing.

All in all it was a long but productive day!

Tomorrow the finishing touches and time to hall off some trash perhaps. Ah yes I also got some ground cover flowers to go between my roses up front called "verbien tapien blue-violet".

Pictures later perhaps. For now I will have another martini & watch the pool lights change colors on this very pleasant night.

As I was removing 2 bags of weeds from my garden today I also took up some huge carrots I planted last year and noticed the artichokes are really starting to come in now!

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Went to Lodi California this morning and ran in the inaugural  "Run on Water" 5k that benefits helping clean and get decent water supplies in areas of the world where the water isn't very healthy. 

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These are the first Artichokes from my garden. The plant is huge and finally giving me produce! Artichokes don't produce until the second year and this is this plant's second year and this second year seems to be promising much produce from this artichoke plant!

I have been ramping up more on doing track intervals trying to increase my speed for running 800 & 1500 meter events. I have noticed that when doing the shorter intervals particularly anything 400 meters and below in the VFF's this puts a bit more stress on the calves since you are on the forefront of your feet & toes even more.

This took me back to when I first started running in the VFF's in September last year but of course the recovery has been quicker.

I did a time trial with a running buddy that I work out with for track intervals this morning and it went well considering we were both leg weary from the weeks intervals plus I hit the weights hard, including the legs, Tuesday right after doing six 800 meter intervals.

As we walked from the parking lot to the track I thought no way would I be able to run this 600 meter followed by a 400 meter time trial even after warming up. Once we ran the trials my legs and calves felt a lot more relaxed than when we got there and still do now and that was 0800 hours (8 AM)!

I think running intervals in the VFF's will give me further flexibility and push once I really start getting in shape for these distances! I mean I haven't done interval training in over a decade at least and probably beyond that!

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I just finished isolating an issue that was preventing me from creating posts or doing much else on this specific blog only within my site. The other blogs were fine.

I had to recreate a new test blog and add different elements one at a time to pinpoint the issue on the test blog.

Finally after adding the RSS feeds from the other sites the issue preventing me from publishing occurred on the test blog. I then removed the RSS feeds from this blog and here I am publishing again.

I'll have to pursue the issue on why RSS feeds caused this issue later since I have other items on my plate in terms of priority but will will have RSS feeds on the site again soon hopefully.

The issue appears to be Perl related so if any of you out there have any ideas I posted the error information to the MovableType forum "http://forums.movabletype.org/2010/03/overloaded-package-xmllibxmlerror.html" and I have included it below:

I got this error yesterday trying to post a new entry to one of my blogs during the publishing operation:

"Operation "ne": no method found, left argument in overloaded package XML::LibXML::Error, right argument has no overloaded magic:"

______________________________________________________________________

The accompanying error from the Apache error_log:

" \t(in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on unblessed reference at /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/extlib/XML/Elemental/Document.pm line 20 during global destruction., referer: http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi "

Line Apache error log references in "/mt/extlib/XML/Elemental/Document.pm":

"sub DESTROY {

$_[0]->{contents}->DESTROY if $_[0]->{contents};

} # starts circular reference teardown"