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Running into roads
I'm a little frustrated with my car situation at the moment, so I figured I'd try to put my thoughts down on here to at least get it out of my head. I was fully intending to write about this after it happened anyway--this is just a convenient excuse ( Read more... ) -
Not quite on schedule
So we headed out yesterday with our engineering counterpart to see a little bit of the area around where our hotel is. He lives in the apartments across the street, so he was kind enough to show us where some of the local shopping is and took us to lunch at a Sichuan restaurant. The food was very good, and the entire three entree meal came to a ( Read more... ) -
Around the world
So, I'm in China right now--on a business trip for a couple of weeks. I have to say that flying over the Pacific is not a terribly pleasant experience. I was on a 12 hr flight from San Francisco to Seoul, and if being stuck on a plane for 12 hours isn't bad enough in and of itself, you also get to lose a day when you're flying west. Blech. My ( Read more... ) -
Phase II
Well, I saw a lot of success in losing weight over the summer. After starting at a little over 225 in June, I was down below 195 earlier this month. September's been tough, though, with a lot of travel at the beginning of the month followed by a very busy schedule that's messed with my running routine. I've also fallen down on tracking all my ( Read more... ) -
nobody loves you when you're 23 (party like it's 1999)
Apropos of nothing in particular, last night I found myself contemplating 10 years ago. It was probably the thought of getting my weight under 200 lbs this month--the last time I can certainly remember being below 200 was in 1999. Then again, maybe August is as good a month as any to take stock for me. Thirty-three years ago this month I was ( Read more... ) -
I didn't get *fat* in a day
I am five feet and nine inches tall. According to the BMI Calculator on the NIH website, a healthy Body Mass Index is between 18.5 and 25. That means that a healthy weight range for my height should be between 130 and 170 lbs (I know that the BMI has its limitations, but bear with me here). When I weighed myself this morning, I tipped the scales ( Read more... ) -
Not all hikes are created equal
Ok, so I know it's my fault. I flat out told my wife that I wanted to go for a hard hike this weekend. I advertised it on the hiking meetup group site, but didn't get any takers to go with me. I told myself that the safest thing to do would be to do an easier hike since I was going on my own. But I went and did that hike anyway. That was a ( Read more... ) -
Collected tweets. Yum.
In case you care, here's how I've been wasting my time on Twitter over the past day...
- 08:31 Anybody up for a killer hike up Sandia this Thurs or Fri? bit.ly/66COy #
- 09:19 RT @AdventureBus BOGOF still avail. Yellowstone/Teton adv leave SLC Sat aft 6/13. 2/1 price$965. bit.ly/9wEdf for $965? C'mon ppl!! #
- 11:33 @ AdventureBus Nawp. Just sounds ( Read more... )
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Collected tweets. Yum.
In case you care, here's how I've been wasting my time on Twitter over the past day...
- 06:16 Oh hey, for the curious--#SWILLNS = Southwest Invitational Double L-Note Special. It's Mike Baron's Scrabble party (w/$100 entry fee). #
- 06:18 Wonderful thing of having the inimitable @poslfit at #SWILLNS--actual ratings in real time (by dinner last night ( Read more... )
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Scrabble is dead (to me). Long live Scrabble!
So, not to be too bathetic, but I went into the tournament this past weekend fully expecting that it would be my last Scrabble tournament. Ever. Or at least for a good long while. After my spectacular implosion at the Portland Labor Day tournament last September that I only briefly alluded to on here, I took a break from Scrabble. I dropped out ( Read more... )