Meet and eat, rebuilding

by Duf Anything and Everything

Last night was another running club board meeting.  Before I went to the meeting I stopped over at my buddy’s place to see the dog he was dogsitting for a few weeks, named Lucky. Lucky barked and carried on for about 15 seconds but once he realized I was a dog guy he was my buddy.  He looks and acts like a male version of Sadie, he’s a real good boy.

I then was off to this month’s board meeting where I got the ok to spend some money which I always enjoy.  I got the ok to get some new timing mats for the one box.  The mats we had have some dead spots and are pretty well worn.  Instead of getting two 5 meter wide mats like we currently have I will opt to buy four 2.5 meter wide mats which will give us more flexibility in mat placement.

I also will be getting the ball rolling on ordering the new bib based timing chips to use for the big half marathon I time in mid-January.

At the meeting the board agreed to compensate Ali for her new role as membership coordinator which I pushed for heavily.  In reality it also is a recognition of the various other roles she has held down for the club for the last 5 or 6 years.

After the meeting I headed over to South Street with a few of the guys and had a good time as normal.  The three Miller Lites were enough to take the edge off.

So I am in the middle of the massive rebuilding of my YouTube empire.  It is a daunting task.  Of course re-uploading over 50 gig of videos takes a lot of time.  However the real time eater will be rebuilding each videos description and meta tags.   The good news is this lengthy process will allow me to improve the description and tags so my videos grab more hits, something I didn’t pay attention to during my first 5 years on YouTube.

As I am updating each video on the new channel I hide it on the old channel so I don’t have duplication. I was glad to see the first few pennies of ad revenue trickling into my mom’s new AdSense account.  I am pretty confident that once I am done migrating and revamping, the ad dollars will be rolling once again.  Still sucks having to walk away from a YouTube channel with over 315,000 views because of some ill advised mouse clicks.

Tonight I have my second running club event in as many days, a general membership meeting.  Food and beer will be provided.  Ali is actually going to be the guest speaker for the event, using her background as a dietitian to give some information regarding nutrition and endurance training.