Prior to getting hitched, I'd lost a skosh over 50 lbs, pretty much entirely through dietary adjustments-- I've never been a big fan of seeking out exercise, so I figured I'd see how far that'd take me. I read up a bit, adjusted John Walker's The Hacker's Diet to something I could deal with, and went at it. And it worked pretty well ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty frazzly week around the house. Amy's getting things sorted out for her big hike, and it starts this weekend. The good thing for me: Road trip ( Read more... )

(Which, contrary to what most of y'all are thinking, gots nothing to do with Battlestar Galactica ( Read more... )

My current project involves tearing up (at least) one wall of my basement office, adding insulation, replacing vapor barriers, and upgrading everything below-grade (or at least most of it) to stuff that doesn't rot when it's wet. I'm mostly done with the demolition, and have plans to make a Home Depot run this weekend to get the rest of the parts ( Read more... )

...and this is my brain dump:


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Since we last met ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago at Laguna Seca, I inadvertently led my first laps on a road course ( Read more... )

I took about six months off from driving road courses in iRacing-- three months was mostly, "I'm just not getting much time to drive", and the three months before that were focusing on the ovals. Not getting much time to drive wasn't necessarily a case of having a zillion other things to do, in a lot of cases it was not having a whole lot of time ( Read more... )

...it's my next plan to get out of town, after all. Also got to thinking about the Disney trip with Amy's brother's family next year, but that's sufficiently distant that, heck, it may or may not even happen, who knows ( Read more... )

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