Am I allowed to say it? Alternately, when will I stop saying it? These weeks have been busy: the events in question are now nearly a fortnight gone. Goals I rarely set goals for myself, whether qualifiable or quantifiable. I suppose I am not so wired? Or I don't find goals useful? I had a [...]
I offer today less in the way of prose and reflection, and more in the way of data. Since the beginning of November, I have mapped and saved my longer runs: November 2nd – 9 miles in 1:07:22 November 5th – 6.35 miles in 48:00 November 10th – 12 miles in 1:34:23 November 16th – [...]
I asked—rhetorically perhaps?—in my previous post what it is that makes me happy. I asked this question at least somewhat because I have not been particularly happy of late. I attribute these low spirits (this wreath of miasma?) to a confluence of circumstances, circumstances I will not discuss herein. Ben Kweller – Different But The [...]
Sometimes, on a Sunday afternoon, you just have to say yes to a box of tomatoes, however imprudent 25 pounds of red and green and striated heirlooms may be. Don't listen to the voices in your head, the doubts—listen to Sarah, who firmly believes we can cook and stew and sauce all of these tomatoes. [...]
I jerked awake this morning at quarter to five with my face shoved down in my pillow and had a moment of lucidity. "Alarm's not set," I realized. "And you're dehydrated." I stumbled down the hall to the bathroom for a pee and several long gulps of water from the faucet---am I the only person [...]
I am officially finished with Fantastico as a website auto-installer. I wished to update WordPress and Gallery2 for my blog and that of Claire and Whit. Did my Bluehost Fantastico have WordPress 2.3 available? No. Did attempting to run the Fantastico Gallery2 updater overload my CPU quota and break my Gallery2 installation? Yes. Yikes: 500 [...]
Only 12 notes a man can play! I have been practicing for a month and a half now with Shadrach, a mixed club team out of Seattle, and I could not be happier. Our team has some great talent and athleticism just waiting to coalesce, nearly ready to manifest as massive beatings. And I really [...]
