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A Tale of Two…Three…Five Blisters

They were the best of feet, they were the worst of feet, it was the age of smart training, it was the age of stupid training, it was the epoch of bandaids, it was the epoch of Neosporin….this is super hard to continue with, blah blah – season of blood  blisters, season of long runs, [...]

It’s that time again

Time for book recommendations. I’ve worked my way through all of the recommendations I got from you all in September (and those I haven’t read yet are in my book queue at the library).  Since January 1, I have read:
Title; Author; (Date Read)

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space; Sagan, Carl; [...]

Are you enjoying my hiatus?

So, less than 24 hours after I warned you about light posting, here I am! For two reasons.
1. To update you in the continuing saga of how I am attempting to humiliate myself in front of every single person in Portland.
2. To ask a favor.
The Humiliation of Amy
This morning, I rode my bike to work. [...]

Tuesday Ramblings

It is a wee bit warm here in PDX. I actually don’t mind hot TOO much (although I prefer my hot to be in the 85-95 afternoon range, not the 90 at 9 PM, 76 at 6AM, 108 at 6 PM, etc. that we’re having right now). I do, however, like the hot to go [...]

What I did last week….

Last week kinda went by in a blur – probably all that having to ’set an alarm’ and ‘get up and shower’ and ‘go to work’ stuff. It was hard.
I had thought things were going to slow down for a bit, but I was wrong.
However, many things happened – like how I didn’t work out [...]