http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2092

ESPECIALLY since Palin started college IN HAWAII!!!!111

Grace and peace,
Mike

... for the Democratic and Republican presidential tickets to leave me REALLY looking forward to Saturday late-night parodies in the new season?

I said repeatedly that, based on experience, neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton have the credentials to be an easy fit for the White House.  Of course, I say that as a conservative non-Democrat.

So this Republican Veep nominee, she'll at least make the next couple months of the political process less boring.  Because, what with that ( Read more... )

 War is a terrible thing.  The destruction Russia wreaked on Georgian people and communities during the Olympics was terrible ( Read more... )

So my wife stopped by the Jeweler to pick up my new wedding band Thursday after having it engraved.

"New band?" you ask, "aren't you only a year in?  Does only a year of marriage bloat a guy beyond resizing so soon?"

Well, no, i'm still more-or-less in the same health i was last July, no sudden, shocking finger swells or anything.  But my first ( Read more... )

"Second best, oh second best
I can learn to live with this
Plus I really need a rest
After all what's wrong with second best
What's wrong with second best"

I've had this chorus stuck in my head all afternoon.  No idea why, haven't listened to any Dave Bazan in months.

Grace and peace,
Mike

 http://dean.runnersworld.com/2008/08/running-slows-a.html

Incidentally, the guy blogging about the study is a runner of ultramarathons, hence his attempting to run the 4-Deserts races all this year.  I cannot dream of that kind of conditioning.

Grace, peace, and run!
Mike

                         Heaven and I wept together
And its sweet tears were salt with mortal mine;
Against the red throb of its sunset-heart,
                         I laid my own to beat
                         And share commingling heat;
But not by that, by that, was eased my human smart.

excerpted from The Hound of Heaven (1907), by ( Read more... )

So it's been almost exactly 3 months since I had to stop running for exercise, as I had overtrained (in part, the fault was poorly fit shoes, rather than the training regimen, but neither was really correct) to the point of constant pain in both knees ( Read more... )

So today marks a year of marriage to the coffeegirl! Yea, us ( Read more... )