July 09, 2008
salomon xt wings challenge - the run
mmp, mmp, mmp. meep, meep, meep. beep, beep, beep. BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. i slowly emerged from my sleep coma to realize that my watch alarm was going off. it took a few seconds to realize where i was as i...
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July 04, 2008
whitney = fail; yosemite = prevail
my salomon xt wings challenge has seen some interesting developments over the last few months. initially, when i agreed to the challenge and came up with my event (portal to peak), i had planned on running sometime in august/september. trying...
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June 26, 2008
droppin' f-bombs
tuesday was a big day. smsmh and i had been flying low and under the radar for a while. the last thing we wanted on tuesday was enemy aircraft or ground fire. we'd been sticking to strict radio silence. when...
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June 02, 2008
in which our hero is not eaten by a bear
sunday was my last big elevation/altitude training run before my salomon xt wings challenge. i'll be in on a trip to the uk for the next two weekends. that means no elevation. no altitude. i needed to go out with...
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in which our hero cleans chocolate cake boogers
saturday was tc's big birthday pool party. wow, it's really hard to imagine that a year ago i was in the receiving room holding his tiny, tiny hand singing "hey jude" to him under the warming lamp. talk about...
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May 15, 2008
more fun with wings
i met up with mr.k this morning for a zero dark thirty trail run in el moro. those 5am starts really make for some groggy mornings. i forgot food this morning. good thing i packed my socks and underwear last...
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May 12, 2008
our mother's day
our mother's day dawned early with smsmh feeling sick. sore throat, congestion, lethargy. what a great way to start off your first mother's day. i popped out of bed to get stuff ready for thunderclap and let smsmh sleep. we...
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May 11, 2008
flying with the wings
okay...so at the start of the day, i thought for sure that the nokia n82 and the nifty sport tracker software were going to be the highlight of my workout. funny that it turned out to be the one thing...
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May 09, 2008
they're heeeeere!
my package showed up today with all the gear for the salomon xt wings challenge. i'm now a proud owner of a pair of salomon xt wings (bright RED) a salomon technical training shirt (bright RED) and a nokia n82. ...
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May 01, 2008
going mobile
last friday we headed out to arizona for the zane grey 50k/mi race and stayed with my parents just outside of phoenix. just before we left to drive out, smsmh had thunderclap on the floor in the bedroom and just...
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April 10, 2008
tidbits
so much to write about, so little time! so, i'll just hit the highlights with a paragraph apiece. first off, i ran some new trails last week. i mapped out a decent 16 miler through laguna coast, starting from a...
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March 25, 2008
happy easter!
we took family photos on sunday at the in-law's place. tc was all giggles and smiles through the whole shoot. the pictures of the grandkids turned out the best. i could post all 50+ of them because they're ALL great,...
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March 17, 2008
sleepyhead
training flexibility begins to get creative when you have a small infant. all of his awake time is precious time, so training falls during the hours where he is asleep. that means early morning runs, cycling to and from...
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March 01, 2008
first kiss
okay, who knew my boy would turn out to be such a narcissist? i can just hear the thoughts going through his head. "hey, come here often? hey, do you work out? is it hot in here or is it...
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February 29, 2008
where does the time go?
so. monday was 9mo for our little guy. we had his 9mo checkup and tc is as healthy as can be. he weighed in at just under 25lbs and 29". dood. we've got a sumo wrestler on our hands! ...
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February 12, 2008
scimmia vede, scimmia fa
so. i'm a happy guy. most times i have a song in my heart and a skip in my step. that usually comes out in the form of a whistle. i whistle. lots. while i work, while i play,...
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January 31, 2008
a banner year
i typically don't do the 'resolution' posts or the 'look back on x year' posts, but i was just thinking about 2007 and what an amazing year it was. i think topping it will be hard. i mean, for good...
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December 09, 2007
window to the world
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November 30, 2007
spit up
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November 22, 2007
sweet potatoes
it's been a good thanksgiving. no running since monday as i let my body heal, but that will change tomorrow. this morning was so much better than yesterday. the jaw is still sore and things will sometimes remind me that...
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November 21, 2007
so much worse
i woke up this morning feeling like i'd been run over by a bus. the chest, the jaw, neck and back were totally stiff and sore. i took some ibuprofen to aid with reducing the inflammation, but i'm still hurting. ...
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November 20, 2007
unwanted visitor
so, our visit with my parents in arizona was just going to be my folks, smsmh, tc and i and my grandparents on my dad's side. we showed up friday night and as we were getting ready to settle...
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November 18, 2007
my ryan shay memorial run
i scoped out a 5.5 mile loop through my parent's community for my memorial run. i woke up when tc got up, started feeding him his bottle but smsmh kept prompting me to get out the door before it got...
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November 17, 2007
shampoo horn
to make up for my missed nablopomo entries, i submit the following video: shampoo horn Technorati Tags: thunderclap , shampoo horn , dweezil zappa , ahmet zappa...
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on the road again
it sure is hard to blog every day when you're driving all over the western states and then when you reach your destination, you end up with no internet access. phooey. that's okay, i blew the whole nablopomo thing a...
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November 15, 2007
general mills
we started tc on solids this week. his first feeding was with rice cereal and we captured the wonderful moment on film. or carbon. or whatever you want to call it these days. please to enjoy tc and his messy...
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November 14, 2007
13 on the 13th
smsmh and celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary in true style last night. for the first time since tc came into our house, we headed out on our own and let grandma watch him for the night. we headed to the...
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November 10, 2007
grave robbing
well, i knew i couldn't mention number five on my tag list and not blog about it immediately. all of the internet peeps that i've met over the years, run races with and slept in their houses are all thinking,...
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November 09, 2007
tag
rules: • link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. • share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. • tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names...
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November 05, 2007
outage!
i walked into work this morning, filled my GINORMOUS mug (thanks scott!) with tea and sat down to get started on the days tasks. open up my email, and it doesn't want to connect to the network. try to connect...
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November 01, 2007
our giant squid
we headed over to smsmh's brother in law's place last night for halloween hi-jinks. it was pure chaos when we showed up with caribbean and her friends preparing to dress up as dice, dogs running around and strobe lights flashing. ...
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September 11, 2007
the maiden voyage
a couple weeks back, tc and i headed out to our local road runner sports and picked up his chariot. yes, we purchased the baby jogger that you all donated towards. i hadn't had the opportunity to take him out...
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July 22, 2007
highs and lows
we found last weekend that smsmh's grandmother on her dad's side had passed away. the funeral was scheduled for tuesday, so we scrambled to get packed and make the drive up to stockton to visit family and attended the services....
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June 07, 2007
letting go
things are a-changing here in the hipster household. our little man is switching from the silent little lamb that we brought home from the hospital to a screaming banshee at 3am. i kid, he's actually a really mellow baby,...
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April 25, 2007
tc's gear
community. wiki says: The word community comes from the Latin communis, meaning "common, public, shared by all or many." common, public and shared by all. that has been the hallmark of the fitness blogging community. from triathletes diving into the...
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March 21, 2007
for juls
juls, you've had a great impact on our lives with your passion for life. my prayer is that you find peace during this season and that when it is over, you take the experience and use it to increase...
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March 20, 2007
show and tell
i fear that the training related posts that have reigned supreme on this blog are going to suffer a coup de etat by renegade "junior hipster" forces. bear with me, as i'm sure the warring factions will eventually come to...
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March 19, 2007
the name game
so, not knowing the protocol for how these adoption things go, smsmh and i wondered whether or not we'd be the ones to name the boy. so, on the drive up to yosemite to visit my grandparents, we began throwing...
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March 16, 2007
bombshell
i get emails and comments from folks every so often asking for an update on the girls. for those of you who are new readers or for my older readers who have suffered memory loss (mark? jon? darrell? hehe), last...
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December 06, 2006
eastside (of the sierras) trip report
when the aussie's in town, it's time to play. reece is in town, and that can only mean one thing...it's btt crazy fun time galore. the first time he came to the states, we headed out to arizona to see...
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November 15, 2006
updates
so, i've been a bad blogger. this poor page has sat unchanged for far too long. maybe i should have picked up the NoMoPloBloDayGlow challenge and done the blog a day thing. or not. so, weeks have gone by without...
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October 05, 2006
right here, right now
i was alive and i waited, waited i was alive and i waited for this right here, right now there is no other place i want to be right here, right now watching the world wake up from history -jesus...
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September 19, 2006
you can't thwart the amazing hip
it appears that the amazing hip's arch nemesis, the arthritic hip, has indeed found out his mild mannered (up for debate) alter ego. when you last tuned in, our superhero's attempt to get to the british isles had been hampered...
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September 07, 2006
stranded
well, the trip got off to a fine start this morning. i hit the airport just in time, despite the rough traffic on the drive in. the plane was on time and we left lax exactly when the flight was...
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August 27, 2006
the salton sea
saturday was a day i'd been waiting for for quite some time. tim and i got to head out to the salton sea and explore what basically is a modern day ghost town. the whole southeast side of the lake...
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August 25, 2006
update on the girls
well, name of the game now is hurry up and wait. smsmh and i had our home study last monday and it went very well. the timing was perfect, too. the previous week our smoke alarm had gone wonky and...
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August 11, 2006
joy and sorrow
first off, thanks to everyone for your support. the comments, emails, phonecalls...you guys have been great and so supportive of smsmh and i as we ride this rollercoaster. so, when we first began pursing having the girls placed with us,...
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July 30, 2006
thankful
dawn brings up a great point. it's easy to whine about chaos, injuries, bad training, weather, etc, but why is it so challenging for us to celebrate the groovy things going on in our lives? take a moment to accept...
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July 17, 2006
variations on a theme
neese got the right idea from my last humorous post and submitted some doo doo and poo humor. again, pg-13, folks. to see all the ones you may have missed, check the link on the left sidebar....
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July 14, 2006
adventures with the amazing sphincter
this has nothing to do with running, with the exception that running blogger, dawn will get a specific thrill out of it. this post is a long time coming and i've debated for a good long while whether i should...
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July 01, 2006
okay, i'll play
i got tagged by smsmh (via email), jessica (whom i answered in her comments) AND meghan, so i'll play along and actually post my (edited) responses: 4 jobs I've had: janitor us marine shoe salesman computer geek 4 movies I...
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June 27, 2006
dissin' lance
so, smsmh and i IM back and forth on occasion and between a married couple, the conversation can get pretty interesting at times. let's just say that i hope work doesn't audit that history log. anyway, smsmh IM'ed me yesterday...
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March 24, 2006
beans and zombie soccer
i completely forgot about the beans that i was going to spill. sheesh...where is my head? these past two weeks have been a crazy whirlwind of work, training and just life. i've basically been working three jobs. my current employer,...
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March 20, 2006
edge cyclesports - buyers review
well, saturday was the day. i'd done all my shopping around and had finally made my decision on the felt f75 as my cycle of choice. really, the guys over at edge cyclesports made the choice easy. my first visit...
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March 03, 2006
the amazing hip has left the building
i'm heading out to phoenix for the weekend to visit with my grandparents. it's been a while since i've had a chance to see them...last christmas (2004) actually. it'll be good to spend some time with them, albeit short. i've...
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February 21, 2006
eat your daddy
i've heard about people waking from sleep because of the bad ending of a dream, or because they were shouting, screaming or flailing during a dream, but never have i heard of someone waking themselves from sleep because they were...
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January 26, 2006
the importance of proof reading
so, i work for a large skin care and beauty aids manufacturer. it's your typical multi level marketing company, with the whole hierarchy of sales consultants. think the typical woman that sells mary kay and you've got an accurate idea...
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people are people
so i haven't posted about running in over a week, and the streak is going to continue today as i've had another series of thoughts running around in my head the past month or so. i really wanted to explore...
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January 24, 2006
use your freedom of choice
there's been a thought that i've been chewing on for the last few weeks. from reading blog entries, to conversations with smsmh and friends to listening to pop psychology on the radio, smsmh and i have come to the following...
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rock star in another life
yeah, so check it...in another life i was a rock star, what with lyrics like these: - guy - lover lover lover bee i'm singing a song to my lover bee because she's as sweet as honey and she doesn't...
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January 04, 2006
one word
there have been the normal number of '2005 in review' and 'resolutions for 2006' posts flying around, but there's been a cool carpe diem theme in a number of them. in addition to those posts, there's a sort of meme...
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December 25, 2005
fall on your knees
from one of my favorite christmas songs: a thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. merry christmas, everyone! may you find joy and blessings in everything around you this season....
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November 04, 2005
a true super hero
it all started back in february. smsmh was reading an article about a woman in new mexico that had started an organization called "the heart gallery". basically, the organization worked with local social services to highlight kids that had been...
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October 17, 2005
tagged
ooh...i got tagged with a fun meme. here are the rules: 1. go into your archives. 2. find your 23rd post. 3. find the fifth sentence (or the closest one to it) 4. post the text of your sentence in...
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October 06, 2005
end of a season
it's been about seven and a half years. in my industry, that's a long time. a long, long time. when it comes to longevity for programmers, don't you treat them like dog years and multiply by seven? yeah, that's what...
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September 27, 2005
too the moon, alice
google has gone and done it again. i may be a little late on this one, but i just stumbled across it today (since today is google's 7th birthday). not only does google have google maps and google earth but...
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September 22, 2005
timing is everything
so, i got home from the gym, showered up and made a call to pick up some chineese for dinner. while i was getting ready to scoot to pick it up, i got a ring from a friend, rich, that...
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BEANS!
so, before i spill the news, let's flash back to a couple weeks ago: i came into work on a monday morning and was welcomed by a flashing message light on my phone. i don't like message lights. that typically...
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August 04, 2005
tied up trying to get loose
it seems that the week before a vacation is the antithesis to the vacation itself. this week has been no exception to that rule. it's been a whirlwind of trying to get things in order for my departure and as...
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July 27, 2005
the jokes on me
so, i just got a call from smsmh, who just got off the phone with lesley (of "sorry, try again" fame). lesley used to be in a 'moms in motion' running group up on santa barbara. she doesn't run with...
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July 25, 2005
mother of all practical jokes
smsmh and i spent the weekend in santa barbara this weekend. we stayed with some good friends and for most of the weekend, just hung around and relaxed. we had some beach going, some hot tubbing, some good eats, and...
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July 14, 2005
July 01, 2005
tagged
i'm not usually big on the blog memes that go around, the 100 things about me, the chain letter type entries, but i got tagged today to list six favorite song titles, and i'm all about chatting about music, so...
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May 17, 2005
and pictures you shall have
here's a picture looking up back bay, inland. if you look closely (it was fairly smoggy inland) you can just barely make out the san gabriel mountains and the snow on mt. san antonio. the water in the bay is...
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May 02, 2005
able soufay
i've been meaning to blog the repetative chant that my grandfather taught me this past christmas. i've searched the internet for any reference to it, but can't find it anywhere. apparently, he learned it from his grandfather, who learned it...
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April 28, 2005
ideas
not much running the past few days, but lots on my mind. the coach is giving me a rest week, so i had an easy four on monday, and some mid-range distance through the rest of the week with striders,...
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April 13, 2005
large mass rant
so, i spent last week in the south. i head to georgia about once a year, and over the past few years have found myself in florida and virginia as well. add in the four years i lived in north...
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April 11, 2005
google searches
got some funny searches when i checked my logs today. i think they're legitimate and not made up by jon, tracy or chris, which make them even funnier: "fourbucks drink or coffee or we'll break your legs" - i didn't...
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April 04, 2005
bad news, good news, bad news, good news
bad news: got word last night from my boss that his son is back in the hospital with blood clots in both legs. he's been dealing with the weekend staff at the hospital and they've been less than competent. johnny...
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March 28, 2005
the kurd rocks
my sister, the kurd, lives in oklahoma. we only get to see her, her awesome husband (slice'emdice'emhead) and her lovely daughter (jumpingjehosephathead) once a year, if we're lucky. i responded to her comment on my 'the swarm' post asking her...
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March 21, 2005
still alive
well, the sore throat and fever felt like they ran their course and come friday morning, i was feeling like i was on the mend. i had taken a rest option on wednesday and skipped my 10 mile run on...
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March 15, 2005
in a van, down by the river
"Now, as your father probably told you, my name is Matt Foley, and I am a Motivational Speaker! Now, before I begin, I better tell you a little bit about myself so you'll know where I'm coming from. I am...
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March 11, 2005
downward spiral
ever have those days? "how's your day going?" "i'm having a day." one of THOSE days. mine started out as soon as i set foot in the office. before i could even get a glass of water and pour a...
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downward spiral
ever have those days? "how's your day going?" "i'm having a day." one of THOSE days. mine started out as soon as i set foot in the office. before i could even get a glass of water and pour a...
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March 10, 2005
bachelor
smsmh is in davis this week with her sister. when smsmh isn't around, i wander the house aimlessly, don't sleep as well, forget things easily and generally just can't function right. and taking care of all the household stuff by...
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March 08, 2005
coffee date
i finally had the chance to meet up with tom from fca last night. we hit starbucks (or is that fourbucks?) to hang out and catch up. we had a great time finally touching base and i had a chance...
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March 01, 2005
overhaul
well, i thought it was time for an overhaul. if anything looks wonky, let me know. i tested it in ie and firefox and it looks like expect it to look. i stole some of the layout design from tracy's...
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February 23, 2005
king of the gutter
i suck at bowling. maybe it's a coordination thing, maybe it's the garish colours of the bowling alley, maybe it's the trash talking smsmh does, whatever it is, i've never bowled anything higher than 50's. until last night. last...
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February 21, 2005
repeat with me now
i will not blog about my job. i will not blog about my job. i will not blog about my job. i will not make any derogatory statements about anyone that i work with, nor will i make any comments...
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February 19, 2005
you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too
about a month ago, smsmh had asked what i wanted to do for my birthday. i mentioned that a party would be fun, seeing as i hadn't had a gathering of friends on my birthday since i was 18. sure,...
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February 17, 2005
good gifts
so let's be honest. i spent tuesday and yesterday wrestling with it being my birthday. on one level, was the ego monster wanting people to acknowledge my day and give me all the typical well wishes, and on the other...
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February 14, 2005
three pounds lighter
well, i have a ton of awesome photos and lots of things to report from our retreat this past week, but all of that seems trumped by the activities of today. we got a call at 5:15 this morning from...
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February 01, 2005
rbf directory changes
mark and aaron put in some heavy hours and finally set up the RBF list as a database driven directory. not only does it make maintenance easier, but it pulls information from reguarly pinged websites, like weblogs.com, to display when...
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January 28, 2005
i love my sammiches!
i like bananas. i like peanut butter. i like wheat bread. i like combining those ingredients for a great pre-run meal. it's a great lunch on the days where i have a decent number of miles planned for after work....
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January 26, 2005
day one
well, yesterday was day one of my coach's training schedule for me. six miles, easy, picking up the pace on the last mile. i headed out to the back bay trail right after work and as the storm clouds rolled...
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January 25, 2005
i had laughter for lunch
rich and cassi stopped by the office for lunch today. the three of us hopped into their new pt cruiser and headed over to wahoo's for some grub. i loaded up on the deadly blackened fish burrito with black beans...
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January 24, 2005
weekend re-cap
i had a full weekend, and now i have to remember what all it was filled with. well, when last i posted, smsmh and i had just finished up a wonderful, relaxing morning filled with yummy breakfast goodies. friday was...
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January 21, 2005
battle of the band
i hit the back bay trail again at lunch yesterday. the temperature was in the mid 70's, but instead of the warm, santa ana wind, there was a nice cool off-shore breeze blowing up the bay. it made for a...
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January 19, 2005
sunny day real estate
i called scott this morning, submitted him to some more bad puns and found out that he wouldn't be able to join me this evening at the beach. so, i headed over to the y at lunch to log a...
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January 18, 2005
warriors heart
alison (happy birthday, by the way!) has been making the occasional mention about josh cox in the bachelorette. smsmh and i decided to tune in and watch last night. i've read some pretty awesome things about josh in the past,...
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January 17, 2005
best laid plans
i was going to finally write up an entry about "why i run". long, introspective and honest. it was going to be the bees knees of posts, the best one since dooce got fired, it was going to set the...
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January 14, 2005
the day the laughter died
yesterday was the day the laughter died. my arch-nemesis, the arthritic hip, no longer works with me. yesterday was rich's last day with the company. he's moving on to go school full time and complete his degree in math, and...
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semper fi
man, chris really has a way with getting the wheels turning. the questions he poses always elicit such great tought! so, through an email conversation about "pep talks" in the military and methods of encouragement, he asked the question, "what...
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January 13, 2005
source of my joy
i skipped tuesday night's run, since i was still feeling a little tired from the race on sunday, and then last night, skipped my mid week long run with a raging headache. so, it had been since sunday morning that...
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January 12, 2005
cloudbreak
i know i'll get nasty comments from my friends in canada and the northeast part of the country, but here goes anyway. it's been raining crazy heavy for the past few weeks, and while i LOVE the rain, it creates...
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RBFFest
i just fired off an email to the blogfather: Mark, ... Anyway, I wanted to throw out a proposal. After my race in AZ this past weekend, I had such a great experience that I've decided to make the PF...
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January 09, 2005
rnr half marathon report
this mornings race was fantastic. it went off without a hitch, both logistically and in execution. my dad and i got up at zero dark thirty and headed out for the start. i had a quick breakfast of oatmeal and...
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January 07, 2005
rainy race weekend
well, we’re on our way out of dodge. smsmh and i, along with my folks and her folks are heading out to phoenix for the weekend. i’ll be running the p.f. chang rock n’ roll half marathon on sunday....
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January 06, 2005
lunch special: fried legs
well, i was so giddy about getting the y membership, that i went ahead and decided to put in a run at lunch today and then shower up at the gym. i've done lunch workouts before, but they've always been...
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back bay boogie
scott ended up having a meeting last night, so rather than meet him down at the beach for my post-work run, i headed over to the y to run from there along the back bay bike path. i started out...
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January 05, 2005
y? because we love you!
m.o.u.s.e! okay, enough flashbacking... i am not one for 'resolutions' or making yearly goals or rehashing the past year. i enjoy reading everyone else's posts about those, but i typically don't do them. so, i felt kinda funny today when...
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January 04, 2005
late christmas present
well, i got a late christmas present this year. when we returned from colorado, sitting on the doorstep was a nondescript box with a ups shipping label addressed to me. the return address? nikon usa. while we were away, nikon...
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January 02, 2005
christmas vacation recap
this christmas vacation is one of the best in recent memory. we showed up in colorado springs on monday afternoon, to a welcomingly warm home and meal at my grandparents place. we had the added surprise of my cousin herb...
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December 27, 2004
tmi run
it’s a cold and dry morning in santa fe, new mexico. we left southern california yesterday to drive out to colorado springs to spend the week with my grandparents. two friends of ours, tim and jeannie came with us. we...
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December 25, 2004
christmas morning long run
well, i rolled out of bed at zero dark thirty this morning, all ready to put in a long 18 miler before smsmh got up and wanted to head over to her parents place to celebrate christmas. the alarm went...
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December 24, 2004
yo ho, blow the man down II
well, i headed out this morning for another 6 miles and the air was pretty still. the news (watch out for the windy "danger zone"! sheesh) said that the santa anas would be back again today, but there was only...
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yo ho, blow the man down
does anyone else have a hard time 'taking it easy' on a run? my intent last night was to run at an easy pace and just relax and enjoy the exercise. kind of in a "my vacation has begun, let's...
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December 23, 2004
don't look now!
after much reflection and on the suggestion of lilly, i'm changing how i do my mid-week runs. rather than constantly eyeballing the pace and doing shorter fartlek runs, i'm going to increase my mid-week mileage, and just run at a...
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December 22, 2004
boysenberry!
bfbh and family are in town. super hero children and all. yesterday they all headed to knotts berry farm (an amusement park similar to disney land, but a tad bit smaller) for nnpwh's (nicknackpaddywhackhead) birthday. since her family was only...
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December 20, 2004
on the road again
i finally got back to running after a horrible week of having the flu. saturday i headed out to the aliso creek bike trail and did a nice comfortable 6 miles at about an 8:30 pace. i started out nice...
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December 17, 2004
down and out in laguna hills
wow. that KICKED my butt. the tickle in my throat on the drive home from nevada on saturday turned out to be a nasty version of the flu. my body felt like it'd been hit by a train, my head...
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December 12, 2004
weekend recap
i made an attempt to kick start myself after being sick on tuesday and wednesday, so thursday after work i headed out and put in a quick 6 mile run. i kept what i thought was a comfortable pace (still...
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December 09, 2004
early christmas present
so, i've been home for the past few days with some sort of stomach flu. i got up tuesday morning to go to work and couldn't keep anything down, so i took tuesday and wednesday off. no running and not...
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December 06, 2004
i feel so naked
i turned on my camera the other day and was surprised to see the 'PC' display on the LCD screen. the 'PC' screen is only supposed to display when it's connected to the computer. hmm...odd. so i turned it on...
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December 05, 2004
the. worst. race. ever.
i hit the expo for the oc marathon after work on friday to sign up for the half marathon. it was early during the expo, but the parking fiasco and the huge number of people already there should have clued...
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December 03, 2004
end of the fast
after the tough 16 miler on sunday and in preparation for the race this sunday, i took an extended rest. 3 days off. holy cow. i broke my running fast yesterday though with a nice hard 6 mile hill run....
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December 01, 2004
November 30, 2004
marathon goals
richard posted an entry about his marathon goals and it got me to thinking about race times. marathon goals are a funny thing. the first two races i did for time were races where i trained and raced solo. no...
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November 29, 2004
no, aunt bethany, those are the christmas lights
clark griswold, i'm not. that would be my dad. every christmas season, right after thanksgiving, dad would be out there with the huge string of lights. none of these pansy little twinkle lights, but the big-as-your-thumb bulbs, backed by the...
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November 27, 2004
yea though i walk...
...through the valley of the shadow of death, i shall fear no evil. with the arrival of the forerunner, i decided to get out of dodge and put it to the test. early friday i got up, packed up the...
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November 24, 2004
thanksgiving feast
smsmh and i went to a thanksgiving feast at our church last night. it was a great time of celebrating what God has done in our lives over the course of the past year, spending time with close friends and...
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it's christmas! it's christmas!
the forerunner just showed up! big, big kudos to garmin for stellar customer support. this means the plans for friday are ON! i'm gonna be a gps runnin' fool...either that or a dead in the middle of the desert fool....
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moonlight run
brian and i hooked up at the aliso creek & wood canyon wilderness park for a quick run last night before our thanksgiving feast at church. i did some quick hill repeats while waiting for him to show up. we...
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happy thanksgiving
i have so much i want to blog about today, my head is going to explode! from running to celebrating, from dreaming to looking at the future...so much stuff! i'll break them up into separate entries, so as not to...
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November 23, 2004
i'm garmin ta getcha!
okay, bad hendrix pun in the title. sorry. the news is that my forerunner showed up yesterday. it was sitting on the doorstep when i got home. my heart skipped a beat and i immediately had a desire to strap...
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November 22, 2004
finter wonderland
i love how the mind works. saturday night i had another dream. this time i was traveling in a car through some mountain passes and we (i have no idea who i was with) were experimenting with the echo in...
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November 21, 2004
back in the groove
saturday mornings are a weekly scheduled run with brian and i. since the half marathon in long beach, he's missed every one. either i've been out of town and he hasn't run the prescribed distances, or he's had other commitments/excuses....
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November 20, 2004
running under fire
being former military and having spent months in environments similar to what these guys are experiencing, i found this article absolutely amazing and inspiring. i plan to track their progress closely online while they race. very cool....
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November 19, 2004
running wild
i did it. i finally did it. i bought the garmin forerunner 201. smsmh gave the okay last night to consider it a belated anniversary present. i really wasn't interested in receiving something diamond, leather or tin anyway. haha! i...
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what dreams may come
i sleep hard. when my head hits the pillow at night, i am OUT. this wasn't always the case. while in the marines and up until about 2 years afterwards i was a light and fitful sleeper. i remember almost...
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November 18, 2004
another sunset
good friends are a good thing. i hit the beach last night for my regular wednesday night run. i was still pretty worked up over the events of the last few days. numerous people had stopped by my office to...
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November 17, 2004
corporate indifference
yesterday was crap. the day started off great with some research for a project that i figured was going to be quite difficult, but ended up having a very graceful solution that would be easy to implement. rather than have...
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November 15, 2004
if you can't stand the heat...
ken and his family were out in palm springs (well, really rancho mirage) for the long veterans day weekend, so i agreed to drive out and run with him on sunday. nuts? yeah, but i'm a sucker for a long...
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November 13, 2004
singing in the rain
i was up early at 6am this morning to head out for a run, but first things first, i had to check on chris's blog to see if he had any comments about his first marathon. he did, but it...
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November 12, 2004
cruise re-cap
the comment from smsmh as we got into the car to drive home from the port of los angeles? "we survived the cruise" now, don't get me wrong, 5 days and 4 nights of spending every waking hour with my...
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November 08, 2004
x marks the years
x, ten. this week marks the tenth year that i have been privileged to claim smsmh as my spouse. and in celebration, we're heading to san pedro today to hop on a royal caribbean ship and take a five day...
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November 07, 2004
guess your time, win a prize
this was a weekend of times. the first notable time was 4 hours. the amount of time it took us to get out of town and make the drive up to santa barbara. i love the city, hate the drive....
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November 05, 2004
santa barbara or bust
smsmh is on her way to pick me up right now. we're heading up to santa barbara for the weekend to run the news press half marathon tomorrow. we're expecting rain! weee! wish me luck! i'll have a full race...
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popping the bubble
i've been reading chris brogan's blog and he brought up a very cool soul searching topic the other day, something that was along the lines of things that have been heavy on my mind over the past year. i ended...
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November 04, 2004
sunset run
wednesdays are my after work beach runs with scott on his bike. scott ended up having to work later, so i ended up heading down to newport by myself. as i was driving down, i could see a great sunset...
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November 03, 2004
the fire within
brian called and canceled our run for the evening, so i was free to head down to the beach after work to run. i hadn't been following election coverage at all, but did listen to some talk radio on the...
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November 02, 2004
running to the polls
i slept in a little bit this morning so i could vote before heading into work. yes, i voted today, did you? i decided to take the latest copy of runners world to the polls to read while i waited...
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November 01, 2004
weekend re-cap
another friday off and another chance to catch up on some much needed rest. smsmh and i slept in and rolled out of bed around 7:30, over 8 hours of sleep for me! troy rang around 8:30 and we hooked...
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October 28, 2004
if you like pina coladas...
...and getting stuck in the rain... what a fabulous run i had yesterday. i called scott around noon and despite the rain, he had his cycling gear so we planned to meet up down in newport for a nice, soggy...
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October 27, 2004
hummer makes me go hmmm
there's a new ad airing locally. the camera starts out with a tight view of mom driving, rain coming down outside. she comments to the kids about it being the first day [of school]. she asks if the kids want...
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October 22, 2004
1st anual port au prince marathon relay?
so, i'm sitting here at work, sipping a cup of coffee, wandering the web, thinking about last night. on thursday nights, we host a small group at our house from our church that we're pastoring. last night, we had the...
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October 21, 2004
sit up straight and don't slump
so i mentioned that i stayed home from work on tuesday and had a crappy wednesday at work. it's been the par for the course lately. work has been blah, i haven't felt very motivated and haven't really wanted to...
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October 20, 2004
noah?
i love rain. i love the chaos it causes. i love the cleaning it does. i love rivers of water in the gutters. i love water cascading off of buildings. i love the calming sound of windshield wipers. i love...
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October 16, 2004
friday, my day of rest
this week i looked back and realized that i hadn't had a day off where i was able to truly 'relax' in several months. with running, birthdays, anniversaries, climbing, etc, it's been several months of go go go. i really...
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October 12, 2004
an answer to prayer
i just got off the phone with ken. yeah, ken, the runner guy i ran (haha!) into while on a long run down at huntington beach a couple weeks ago. i had the opportunity to hook up with him a...
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lobster
this weekend was a whirlwind of activities. from running to meetings to parties to church, it was non-stop from the moment i got off work on friday. i met a good friend, scott down at the beach after work for...
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October 04, 2004
i can see for miles and miles
'party leader'? 'party leader'! they want MY signature on THAT line? my heart skipped a beat as i realized what i was getting myself and my friends into. i was leading a climb on mt. whitney, in the fall, when...
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September 29, 2004
home owner woes
in light of several friends incidents with owning homes and joy therein, i thought i'd do a repost of sorts. the following is a story i emailed out to some friends several years ago after my first attempt at plumbing....
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September 23, 2004
dead passengers
"when there is trouble on the road dead passengers will guide you home" headed off to salt lake city here shortly. flight leaves at 12:55 from john wayne. looking forward to the trip, and then again not so much. on...
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September 21, 2004
i need a fix
yes, i'm going to blog about an addiction. yes, i'm going to admit my need for a hit. yes, i'm going to blog about yafro. okay, getting past the exhibitionist (easily avoided if you 'block adult content' and keep a...
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September 20, 2004
here's to 40 more
yesterday was my parents 40th wedding anniversary. bananafishboneshead and her family were in town, so we decided to head down to laguna beach to my folks favorite restaurant and celebrate. bfbh, airplaneflylowbuzzhead, nicknackpaddywhackhead, ipeefreelyhead and shayla (no head name yet!),...
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September 18, 2004
old is a relative term
friday was another day of adventure. a day off and an opportunity to get out of town? how could i resist making a drive up my favorite highway?! up before the crack of dawn, and on the road by 5am,...
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September 14, 2004
you may call it karma, i call it god
i do my long runs on sunday mornings. sundays, for me, are a day reserved for rest, reflection and spending time with family and friends. no work (usually...haha), no chores, no to-do lists. the 'no-work' mantra doesn't include running though....
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September 10, 2004
rod increases his rope skills
i remember teaching him to rock climb. we would hit easier locations locally, visit the gym and talk endlessly about our next adventure. and i specifically remember the day that he got 'qualified' at the gym. we spent quite a...
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September 09, 2004
wheel in the sky
well, the spectrum was a treasure trove of photographic opportunity last night. unfortunately there were hardly any people there, so greg didn't hit pay dirt with any crowd shots. i think we'll try again this weekend when the moviegoers are...
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September 08, 2004
photographic spectrum
i'm excited about today. a good friend, greg, is taking a photography class. he needed a camera for the course, so i let him borrow my minolta x700 35mm slr, complete with a 50mm, 2x teleconverter and 70-210mm lens. it's...
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August 31, 2004
d70 goodness
well, the rollercoaster took a major upswing at work a couple days ago. the owner had been throwing around the 'drop everything and work on this for me' card, causing some chaos in his wake. well, he did it again...
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August 27, 2004
the scary game
a friend took me on a trip down memory lane with a comment about messing with siblings, so i had to write up a story about one of the more memorable times i messed with my youngest sister. at the...
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August 18, 2004
haiku dragonfly
where are dragonflies? look for small darting shadows they live in tree tops...
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heisenberg dragonflies
nearly every day i head to a local deli for lunch. it's not a name brand food stand, but a true 'mom and pop' place. they know me by name, they know which items i order and how i like...
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August 17, 2004
olympics: not so special
i'm an idealist. a purist. anal. at least when it comes to the olympics. i am excited when the games come around because it's one of the few times when track and field, swimming, cycling and triathloning are televised, events...
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August 16, 2004
home renovation blues
i don't know that i would necessarily call them blues NOW, but over the past few weeks? definitely. we undertook the task of removing a wall, pulling up our linoleum, tile and baseboards and having new flooring put in. sounds...
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July 27, 2004
a bittersweet victory
i've been obsessed with the tour de france over the past few weeks. coming home from work last night and not having the constant stream of cycling coming into my living room was a serious disappointment. i know i'll be...
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July 02, 2004
photophile
well, i finally got the motivation to update the art page a bit. i added some of the better photos that i've been taking lately to it. it's fun to look back on what i've been shooting, the composition and...
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lonely life of the traveler
i saw lost in translation the other day. there were several things about it that resonated with me. i could see where people would watch this movie and be incredibly bored with a good chunk of it. there are numerous...
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June 23, 2004
mosquitos, marmots and bears, oh my!
ranger smith here, just back from jellystone and a close encounter with yogi. the trip was amazing. just plain amazing. from the scenery, to the company, from the fatigue to the humor. every aspect of it was amazing. we left...
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June 18, 2004
tuolumne or bust
the guys should start showing up here any minute. we're off on a backpacking trip from tuolumne meadows in yosemite down to yosemite valley. it's a 4 day trip, with a side trip to view sunrise from the top of...
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June 13, 2004
ascend
fridays climbing adventure reminded me of a bit of poetry that i wrote a few years ago. never really shared it anywhere, so here goes: Adhesion surrounds my feet Powder white hands Safety in this thin cord My umbilical back...
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June 12, 2004
i am a noodle
friday was another wonderful day away from the office. rod and i decided to head out to the desert to do some climbing. it had been ages since i'd climbed out on real rock. over the past few years, it...
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June 03, 2004
i guess my race is run
it's amazing what the body can endure. i once heard the comment that it's all about mind over matter. if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ottawa was incredible. the course, the weather, the scenery, the camaraderie, all were above...
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May 26, 2004
i'm on vacation!
today marks the start of my vacation. i'm excited about this trip for two reasons. the first being that i really need a break from work. any time off is incredibly welcome at this point, if even for only a...
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