Today marked the official start to the race season for me. I’m not competitive in these things by any means but calling it a race season makes it seem like I know what I’m doing. Signup, run, don’t die. Pretty much in that order. In the end, its all about knocking out one of my goals for 2012. There were a lot of things different about the Red Flannel Run in 2012 compared to last year.

For those looking for the slides from the puppet presentation that I gave last week, here they are. I’ll be working on getting a screen cast of the demo up in the next week or so. Too many other things distracting me at this moment.

For those that haven’t seen my twitter feed… I’m going to be doing a presentation in the coming days for the local linux user group (CIALUG) on Puppet from Puppet Labs. Free pizza and some swag will be thrown around. The event is 100% free and should hopefully get you acquainted with all the cool stuff you can automate. Signup for your free ticket!

On the 1st of the year, I put our my usual public goals for 2012. I have some typical goals in there of some fitness goals, career type goals and general health goals. Some of these are pretty cut and dry to track progress. I want to run 5 5K races, pretty straight forward. But how do you track something like getting more sleep? Here is where Mercury App comes in.

If you’re going to go to the time to make goals, you might as well make them public. So in the keeping with my tradition of past years, here are my 2012 Goals: I’ve been burning the candle at both ends for a while now. Late nights programming or just messing around on the internet have been the norm for years for me. My average time to bed is 12-12:30.