I just sent the following paragraphs to some folks at an engineering firm that are helping out with our Haiti project. I could write a real post, but life is busy and I think this sums it up pretty well and concisely. The only real hings I can add are ( Read more... )

I was in Haiti for Engineers Without Borders work June 5-15. Here is an account of it ( Read more... )

I go through phases of life where I enjoy happy things, and there are phases of life where I get pretty serious thinking about the world's problems and how silly my usual concerns are. I am in one of the latter right now. Particularly getting back from Haiti I found myself overhearing conversations and thinking to myself "really?! These are the ( Read more... )

A couple things to put all this in perspective ( Read more... )

You've all probably made up your minds or voted already, and I've already run my mouth off to about 40 people about the propositions, but just in case I missed someone ( Read more... )

Last time I was here I talked about how I'd be playing a lot of baseball this summer. Well things haven't gone perfectly to plan. I'm learning I'm not the baseball player I thought I was (haven't been playing too well) and I broke a finger which left me out for a couple of months. Regardless, I still played quite a lot, but it's coming to a close ( Read more... )

I was just thinking about how, including all my practices, my hardball league, and my softball league, I will have played baseball over 30 times this summer. If my attendance remains good, about 40. All this in addition to being in a fantasy league as well. I got to pitch little last week but didn't do too great. Other than that I haven't got as ( Read more... )

In January I was feeling a little depressed. Mostly because I was stuck at home, sick most of the time, unable to do the semi new year's resolutions I had made. I've been feeling a lot better lately. As soon as I was less sick, I started working out several times a week. I am now officially playing baseball. The past few weeks I've been practicing ( Read more... )

Do you Californians realize how exciting this is. This might be the only time in our lives that our individual votes will matter in picking the next President. And it is getting excitingly close ( Read more... )

Not so good, it turns out. I've been sick three times in the past 2 weeks. I've taken 5 sick days, and have lost just about all of my sick-time cred ( Read more... )