Stop Actively Rocking My Boat

The Viper has a bit of an obsession with consistency. I like to be able to count on people, places and things staying more or less the same.

My sense of home is a house and hometown that have barely changed in my 28 years. Part my job in the publishing world is make sure language and style remain consistent. The character trait I value most is loyalty, which is a kind of consistency. Consistency gives me a comfortable framework through which to understand an otherwise ever changing lifescape.

So I feel umbrage when something I've come to rely on drastically changes. I feel betrayed when a formerly easy task bogs down with rampant inefficiency. Gentle readers, all I want to do is log my seven-mile run in my online training log. However, CoolRunning.com has merged with Active.com to create a new and improved pain in my ass.

Instead of entering one screen to add a day's workout, I now have to navigate through two Web pages to create the workout and then I have to mark it as complete through another set of pages. This is not necessary.

Moreover, it doesn't appear that I can graph my running for more than a month. Before, I could do the whole year. And I have to wait for all my old data to transfer over from the old site.

The folks at Active.com better right this shit ship before I jump over starboard. My two years of loyalty are in seriously murky water and I'm ready to point this bow toward safer harbors.

[Drunkard's note: I also have a bit of an obsession with shittalk shiptalk.]