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So, it's been three years this week since I got below 170 lbs for the first time since--probably--1994. Weight's not gotten above 175 (at the holidays) since then and has been as low (briefly, after a long, long, run on a hot, hot, day) as 159. For the most part, I've been maintaining around 165-170 for the last three years. When I started ( Read more... )

As I mentioned previously, this is the 10th anniversary of the first semi-public ritual I organized with Raven's Cry (then) Protogrove, ADF. Although I'd led one open and a couple private Wiccan rites before that, December 1999 was the beginning of a nearly uninterrupted span of High Day rites in the Neo-Druidic tradition...the only public rites I ( Read more... )

Well, Liz and I will be moving again next month...after moving 16 months ago. This time, though, I'm more confident that it will be for the long term. I really love our current apartment for a lot of reasons, but the neighborhood--as I feared when we moved--doesn't inspire a lot of feelings of security. It's not bad, but the block we're on isn't ( Read more... )

Sort passed under my radar, but it was 10 years ago last week that I was first legally-ordained as a Pagan priest (via initiation in the Ancient Keltic Church, the public 501(c)(3) vehicle for the Roebuck Tradition). Ten year anniversary of my first open Neo-Druid ritual is coming up in December. (First-ever open Wiccan ritual I led was in June ( Read more... )

I've posted before (I think) about my training log at beginnertriathlete.com--it's publically viewable, you just have to create a free user profile/login. Things are quiet there now, because of the hamstring injury I'm rehabbing, but I also keep pretty detailed narratives of all the races I finish on that site. Here's the fairly epic (and candid ( Read more... )

Completed...

--2.4 mile open water swim

--112 miles bike ride

--26.2 mile marathon

...all in 13 hours and 45 minutes. My hamstring may be trashed, but I am an ironman triathlon finisher.

Wow...I get home this evening from the FoDLA Conclave and what do I find on the front page of the Saturday LA Times? This. Talk about a cool article winging its way in from deep left field. (Happy the paper wasn't stolen like it normally is when we're gone for more than one day.)

Left this comment on smithing_chick's Facebook page and decided it was a sentiment I wanted to save here ( Read more... )

Wow...has it really been 11 years since I had the opportunity to work with David Carradine when he guest starred on CHARMED? Rumor has it he hanged himself in a Bangkok hotel room...sad if true. A female friend of mine had said before then that he had engaged in borderline harassing behavior on another set some time before I worked with him, but ( Read more... )