Happy birthday to the woman that has made me the happiest man alive for 3617 days and counting!


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In honor of BlahBlahBlahWhatever, seeing that lot more people are coming out of the woodwork to give updates, and some prodding from my lovely wife, I figured I'd get in on the action. Except maybe weekends. And maybe not anything that anyone would ever want to read ( Read more... )

The DFL Blog.

The tagline says it all, "Celebrating last-place finishes at the Olympics. Because they're there, and you're not."

We've just returned from our drive to Lake Placid, NY for Ironman USA, and it's so good to be home. After the race we went down to Philidelphia for a few days to hang with Derrick and Ali, and a great time was had being touristy, eating lots of food, and confronting delicious drinks. On Friday, we got up early and headed back for Austin. We had ( Read more... )

Hire a couple IT people for Bob's sake. This isn't 1998; yes, high-volume servers aren't easy, but it's not exactly a new problem. And it's not the first (or twentieth) time you've had to deal with this. I fail to believe budget's a huge problem.

I had been holding off on deciding about racing Spenco Olympic on Sunday until the end of this week when I had to chance to take off / change bandages in order to assess things. We took off the bandages this evening. I won't be doing Spenco. What we found underneath wasn't so good ( Read more... )

If you're going to cause someone to crash, please have the courtesy of at least stopping to make sure they're ok.

I don't know whether to be happy or sad that I didn't see them at the finish.

This morning at Barton Springs there was misty blanket sitting on top of the water, and it surprisingly just became thicker the longer we were there. I ran into whyiron, teambaraka, IMAZBarb and OtherMark on my last lap and got to say "hi!", even doing a little drafting behind Barb. I'm really looking forward to these Tuesday morning swims ( Read more... )

A long time ago I had someone tell me that a good scientist should discard an assumption every morning for breakfast. I was recently reminded of this while watching an excellent series on thinking about global climate change (if you have a couple of hours, I highly recommend it.) While technically I'm not a scientist by trade, I like to think ( Read more... )