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Ow, Chow, Meow
Last time I surfed I thought I had to get my muscles back in shape to be able to catch waves, so I pushed hard. The result was 5 days of DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) that made me wonder if I’d injured myself. Today I experimented with surfing before work so the session wasn’t as long, and I didn’t paddle excessively just for exercise, so I’ ( Read more... ) -
Return to the womb
Against some odds, I entered the Great Frozen Pacific again. It’d been almost three years since I’d surfed. Three years! By far the longest dry spell in the last 25 years. Growing up in Santa Cruz and focusing a large portion of the energy of youth into surfing, I will never really quit, there are just extended flat spells, debilitating injuries ( Read more... ) -
Kung Fu Kids
Yesterday I watched The Forbidden Kingdom with my daughters. They were reluctant, but I wasn't offering choices. They got all riled up of course, and proceeded to rip my shirt and scratch my stomach, arms, and back. Such cute little claw marks, and only one drop of blood. No children were hurt in the mauling of this body (though kids where flying ( Read more... ) -
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"Life, exercise and all its rewards belong to people who can intelligently understand and deal with risks" - Bryce Lane from here
Nice summary of something I've been struggling with. Mostly I'm struggling with being intelligent.
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Red Bell Love
I have to say that Red Bell Peppers are the best sweets ever!
Breakfast = 2 eggs, 1 yolk, bike to work
Lunch = bike home, cottage cheese, raspberries, blueberries, chia seeds, bike back to work
4:00 snack = carrots, celery and OMG BELL PEPPERS!
Is there a food you don’t like much but wish you liked more? Eat almost nothing all day, do 30 minutes of ( Read more... ) -
Damn Pacifists!
A couple weeks ago we (Lesly, V, Nora, me) played Risk. It was the kids' first time playing, so I liberally gave strategy advice, but my attempts at objective suggestions were doubted, probably because I focused on individual perspective and rather than alliances ( Read more... ) -
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I feel better than I have in a long time.
As a rational atheist in Santa Cruz, I've been exposed to a large amount of alternative thinking, around here you can't throw a crystal without 5 hippies blessing its passing. When I was 16 I did a lot of meditation and solidified a life of "body work" such as yoga, tai chi, martial arts, surfing, ( Read more... ) -
I love my kids
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Chew to the Beet
I'd always longed for the ability to access the perfect song to compliment the mood I was experiencing or wanting to experience, the soundtrack of my life. Bouncy summer tunes for the bike ride home, unwinding mellowness late at night, drivingly productive background music while coding, the occasional conceptual song to remind me of what's ( Read more... ) -
The Hill
I’ve discovered and re-defined “The Hill”.
Riding my bike to work has been good exercise. I went from being sedentary to riding 10 minutes with only a relatively minor elevation change. At first I couldn’t even pedal the whole way, I spent a lot of time coasting, but now I’m pushing hard the entire way. Time to get my clip on shoes and a stopwatch ( Read more... )