Had a great race yesterday for my third LA Marathon...personal best by over 13 minutes:

3:42:19
800 of 14147 overall
712 of 8998 men
86 of 889 in age group (M 45-49)

scripty_liz finished her first marathon, ran the whole distance in under 5 1/2 hours!

Tired of the Blame

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I still read all my F/L posts here every day (still prefer LJ to Facebook...alot, actually), but, obviously, I don't post much. Never really been big on journalling, frankly ( Read more... )

Long day today...delivered the guest sermon at back-to-back services at Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (at the invitation of one of their lay clergy, who is a member of my old ADF grove). I thought it went very well, indeed, helped immeasurably by the guest musician...Stephanie Bennett and her pedal harp. Nice to see members of ( Read more... )

First triathlon of 2009 is in the books--the UCLA "IronBruin" tri (sponsored and organized by the UCLA triathlon team). Figured from the online results from last year's event that I'd be in the running for one of the top spots in my age group and--sure enough--managed 3rd place (men 45-49). Third time I've finished "on the podium" (as they say ( Read more... )

Looks like scripty_liz and I will be at PantheaCon from around 10:00 am on Saturday until around 6:00 pm on Sunday. We're flying up for the first time...a decision being driven in large part by a sick kitty we need to be around to give care to...leaving Burbank fairly early Saturday morning and departing San Jose at 8:30 on Sunday evening ( Read more... )

...with Science!

Most welcome sentiment among the many necessaries Obama stuffed into his bulging, yet gracefully embroidered, carpet bag of an Inaugural Address?

"We will restore science to its rightful place."

Testify, Brother Obama!

Oh, and how about the long overdue shout out to "non-believers"! Yowsa!

So...if you're going to provide a poem for the inauguration of a new President renowned for his own flights of rhetoric, you'd better bring it.

Umm...Elizabeth Alexander? Not so much.

It wasn't just that her poem was so unmusical ("the figuring it out at kitchen tables," "with no need to preempt grievance") or syntactically klutzy (Do we really ( Read more... )

After all the kerfluffle about Rick Warren delivering the invocation at the inaugural today, I have to say I'm pleased with one thing (in the larger context of disliking the practice of "official" prayer in general): While generally advocating service and civility in the prayer, he quite carefully avoided almost all explicit reference to the ( Read more... )