Running and blogging

It's been a while since I've written a blog. Three years to be exact. Which is about the same amount of time that I've been away from running, and now that I've started running again it seems like a good time to start blogging as well.
I guess an introduction is in order. I'm a 42 year old husband, father of 2, guitar and bass player(sort of), Gamer, and the next American Idol...What? I'm a 10 year U.S. Navy veteran. I've been out(of the Navy) for 12 years now. I currently work as a surveyor in Tulsa Oklahoma. That's a land surveyor, not one of those annoying people in the mall that you try to avoid. I just started running again after a 3 year layoff, as i mentioned before. In that three years I've gained about 50 pounds and have gotten badly out of shape. I weigh in at 280 pounds now, and something just has to be done about that.
So if you care to read it, this will be my place for rants and running stories and other misadventures. If you would like to read my old blogs they can be found at www.xanga.com/runningirony