Amazing Grace
If you have not already gone out to see Amazing Grace you should go as soon as you can. I had heard that it was really good, and I have been wanting to go for weeks, but every attempt has…
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The New Zone
Just before I started this job I posted some predictions of how it the new situation would affect the members of my family. After four months I think we have settled into a new comfort zone where the real effects…
Reach Upward
I have been wanting to post some thoughts on Scott Hinrichs post Gross Incompetence? As I have come back to it, I realize that I could quote much of the same material he is quoting or I could thoroughly botch…
Fences and Cattle
While I was out running this morning I noticed a calf getting out of the field where it was supposed to be. It was stuck about 60% of the way through the fence. I stopped and wondered if I should…
The Value of Objective Mesurements
When I woke up this morning the last thing I wanted to do was go running – which is why I went. Multiple times during my run I noticed that my brain told me to just give up. Fortunately my…
New Insurance
I felt like giving a follow-up to my post on insurance from October. Insurance through my job will be starting soon (as the waiting periods expire) and I feel that I have a much better deal than I had before.…
Anxiously Engaged
I have been weighed down today by all the things that I want to be doing in the near future, and more specifically with how many of those things conflict (time-wise) with each other. As I pondered this little frustration…
Morning Fog
I woke up this morning and when I looked out the window we had a fog so thick I could not see to the end of my street. I was glad that I was not out running in that fog…
Springtime Jogging
I have noticed this week as I go running that I am now seeing other people out jogging in the mornings. It’s fun to not be alone anymore even though I know that the reason I never saw people before…
Ten Miles
I ran a full ten miles today. That’s the first time since I was running cross-country in high school. I amazed myself with the consistency of my pace. At three miles I was on pace, at six miles I was…