So I had this issue today where all emails that I wrote would be sent to the 'Drafts' folder instead of sending.  I was also unable to recieve new emails as well.  At first I thought this would be some kind of 'back pressure' issue and ignored it, but when it kept happening and the server still had 50GB of hard drive space left and 1GB of RAM available I figured that something else must be wrong.

Well, it turns out the 'Microsoft Exchange Transport' server stopped (still can't figure out why exactly).  So I started it up and everything is fine again. 

Just a heads up for anyone with an issue like this where back pressure is not the problem.

I saw this qoute online today at the Chicago Tribune:

"Most people don't understand how hard it is to run 26.2 miles," said DePaul head track and cross-country coach Patrick Savage.

I can personally tell you, running a marathon is not that hard.  If you can run 3-4 miles straight, then you are about 18 weeks of training away from finishing your first marathon.  If you can run even a single mile straight, then you are about 30 weeks away. 

The hardest thing for most people to learn about marathon training is that it really is only as hard as making an appointment with yourself 4 times a week for those 18 (or 30) weeks and keeping it.  Now we all come up with reasons why we can't run today, so let me make my views on the three most common reasons I am told by those who are new to running around me:

• I can't run because it is raining out - Simple, put on a hat and a wind breaker and run anyway.  Trust me, it won't hurt you.  That is not to say it is run, but the point is to finish the marathon.
• I can't run because I did not have time today - Also very easy, before you go to bed, run.  I have started 2 hour runs after midnight before.  The lack of sleep will annoy/pain you, but knowing that you will run no matter what will allow you to handle your schedule better.
• I can't run because my [foot, knee, shin, etc.] hurts - So this is the hard one.  One thing that all runners learn at some point is that there is no relation to the pain you feel to medical problem you need to worry about.  We ALL have our body hurting and I remember runs where I could not enter a 'normal' running gait for the first half-mile becaue my right-knee hurt too bad, but you should still do your miles.  If you have questions on this, talk to a sports medicene doctor, someone who understands these kinds of issues. Your normal 'GP' doctor is not the person to consult here (unless he/she is also an endurence runner).

I know that everyone who is NOT running every run they planned feels they have a solid excuse for missing 'that one run', but we all are having or had at one point the same problems, the same pains, and the same discomfort as you are and made it through.

The person next to you at that 5k or 10k race that seems to be a machine while you are about to keel over in pain...  He is feeling it.  And in his head, his thoughts are "I am about to die, how is that person next to me still going?".  Take pride in knowing that dispite what you feel, you look like a machine to those around you.

I wanted a better understanding of Champerty and decided to use Wikipedia as a quick method of obtaining it.  From there I view the link on Tort and came across a fun paragraph.  Now read this with the following picture in your head.

• Alice is a young girl, about 10 years old.  She just got into 5th grade and want to make sure that everyone around her knows.
• Brenda is the smart kid in the 4th grade who can't think straight today after the joy of receiving a big red bouncy ball from her father serving in Iraq as a present.  When she hugs the ball and closes her eye she can still envision him standing there similing and waving at her as he drives away to his 3rd tour of duty.
• Westbrook Grade School, located in Toledo, Ohio has just started their new 'mix-grade' recess plan. 

And now, with that setup, I qoute, Wikipedia on Tort:

For instance, Alice steals a ball and accidentally hits Brenda in the eye. Brenda may sue Alice for losses occasioned by the accident (e.g., costs of medical treatment, lost income during time off work, and pain and suffering). Whether or not Brenda wins her suit depends on if she can prove Alice engaged in tortious conduct. Here, Brenda would attempt to prove Alice had a duty and failed to exercise the standard of care which a reasonable person would render in throwing the ball.

This made my morning.  If this was a movie, it would show Brenda in the library, glossing over John Cooke's 'Law of Tort, 9th Edition' with the song 'Eye of the Tiger' playing in the background while Alice sits with her jock boyfriend, Thadd, practicing her debating.  Over the music you can see her standing over Thadd in her mother's make-up and oversized powersuit saying:

... and it clearly shows that Dobson v. Dobson* applies here.  Brenda's father was negligent giving a 4th grader that ball in the same way Mrs. Dobson, 27 weeks pregnant, was  negligent to her unborn child by driving recklessly.  Your honor, Brenda has a case here, but not against me, but against her ...  (points off to the side) FATHER!

Thadd tries to leans back, not knowing if the reach of Kudies is affected by a female's emotional condition...

There is a movie treatment here somewhere.  I am sure of it.

* Dobson v. Dobson is a real case, but in Canada so it would not apply here.  Is there any US case law that is similar?