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I’m having a go of not taking any allergy meds right now (unless this get really bad). So far it’s working out just fine. I’m sneezing about twice a day and I have to blow my nose occasionally but that’s nothing compared to before I started getting allergy shots. On meds I sneeze about twice […]

Here are some pictures my dad took of us getting the dogs acquainted with the pool. Overall it went ok and I’m sure with more time we could get Grover entering and exiting easily.

A few weeks ago I had lunch with a group, among which was DVB. I happened to ask if he was goign to do anymore one-day film making like he did earlier int he year for CinemaSports in Santa Cruz. He told me that funnily enough, he was going to do one in two weeks […]

Not that I was really in it. About a week before the competition began my company mailed everyone in the company that a sponsor track was opened for those employed by the companies that sponsor the event. Unlike the main competition I don’t think there are any prizes for the winners, so my company stated […]

Nicole and Tami and I went to Disneyland on Monday and got there when the park opened and intended to stay until closing. The food places outside the park don’t open unti lthe park opens so we ate breakfast in the park at the Carnation Cafe and then went off to the newly re-opened Space […]

We visited my parents and sister this past weekend with the intent to get the dogs in the pool (and hopefully to show them where to get out of the pool if they fell in) and to go to Disneyland with Tami. Sunday was for the dogs. We got in and tried to convince Grover […]

Ok, I’m sure it’s been heard this way before, but Nicole was talking about her picture of an oddly dressed kid with “Your momma dresses you funny,” on it and I heard it for the first time (at least to me) as “Your mom addresses you funny,” which I did think was funny. Nothing to […]

Some days there seems to be a lot of the same thing happening traffic wise like last week when the bike lane and sometimes more was blocked at 5 locations on the way home (4.5km). The normal number of occurences is zero. Today’s theme was cut off the bike lane to make a right turn.

What else do you call the thing you sit at and pedal with your hands? Anyway, I figured I’d try to last an hour but end up finishing my hour on the regular exercise bike. I set it to level one random (I always like random) and after about ten minutes I realized two things. […]

I weigh 214lbs, and 26% of me is body fat. Next summer I would like to do a half-ironman level triathlon. It’s a long way to go but I think I can do it.