The East Bay Frontrunners had an excursion to Seattle for the weekend. Lots of fun times, including a surprise meetup with susandennis. What a charmer! Seattle is still set in the fitness craze of the 70's and 80's; there were a dozen running clubs, with hundreds of runners, at the lake where we met. The Seattle Frontrunners alone contributed 80 or so to ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, another one bites the dust. People shoot at each other all the time around here. Police helicopters are common as birds.

But this time it isn't a gang member shooting a rival, or someone who didn't make the payment on their crack habit. It is a sweet, 97-year old woman who was killed in her home for no apparent reason ( Read more... )

It was a simpler time - you were doing a series of postdocs in Switzerland, being paid good money to think deep thoughts about shallow things - or maybe the other way around. You were dating a student at the VU who lived in a crummy apartment in Amsterdam. You would miss the occasional Friday at work to get the cheap weekend train fares through ( Read more... )

The ways in which things happen make me wonder sometime ( Read more... )

Well, it has been two full weeks since my ankle magically got better. The club decided to enter the Presidio 10K as a team. The rules of the team competition say that more bodies is an advantage (some number of seconds off your team's top five total time, for each runner you bring out). I figured I could walk if I had to - walking seems ( Read more... )

A Rochester institution is a barbecue joint called the dinosaur. Last night's trick told me that the ribs and the fried green tomatoes are not to be missed. Only today, my customer told me about this place, just two blocks (in an oddball direction) from my hotel ( Read more... )

I decided to go to an English Country Dance here in Rochester tonight, following a suggestion on facebook. As I was dancing up the line for the first dance after I arrived, I noticed a familiar face coming down the line. Veree Woodbridge. Her husband worked with my dad for man years, and Veree and I had danced together in Columbus back in the 80 ( Read more... )

Heading to Boston for a couple of days. Looking forward to ECD on Tuesday. Hoping that I really do have some of the meetings I made this trip for.

I'm going to cheat on this. I asked bender772 to interview me, and I'm going to answer, but I'm not going to offer to interview anyone else ( Read more... )

For someone who is nursing an injured Achilles Tendon, this is an idiotic thing to be doing. But I did it anyway.

Videos of Molly Dancing at the San Francisco Winter Traditions Day of Dance