Archive for the 'life and times' Category

2011 wrapup, 2012 goals (terse version)

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

It’s sad that my once-a-year blog post has degenerated to what could show up as 5 tweets. I’m throwing more of my day-to-day brain-sauce at twitter lately. But mirroring last year’s one blog post, here’s my annual post for 2012. Charity: 2011: 2.1%.  2012: 2.3% is a small but reasonable step up. Weight:2011: started 370, [...]

2010 wrapup, 2011 goals

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Time for a terse 2010 update, roughly two weeks later than just about anyone else would do it :p. Charity: 2010: 2% target, met. 2011 target: 2.5%. Size: 2010 peak: 372. 2011 goal: stabilize at 340. Exercise: 2010 goals: abject failure. 2011 goals: just make a dent. Medical 2010: abject failure. 2011 goal: not that. [...]

on 30

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

So I’m 30 now. Been here for a couple weeks. Meant to write one of those “big-zero year” updates, and procrastinated until my brother’s birthday …. kinda odd coincidence. Anyway, so I’m 30 now. As of turning 30, I hit pretty much the low point in my fitness level, which is fairly scary. I got [...]

Wild Grape Roots

Monday, March 29th, 2010

A year or so ago, my roommates and I noticed, as we were fighting a mouse problem, that one possible access mode to the house was a dogwood that was pretty close to an attic vent. We’ve got wall voids that go pretty much all the way up to the attic, so it seemed like [...]

The recent revisitation spate (Louisville and Minneapolis revisited)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

So last week and this week I’ve got back-to-back travel schedules. The Louisville trip was to move the hardware out of the original rack that was too shallow (so the back door wouldn’t close, which the management at the site didn’t like) into a new one. Drama ensued, because the new rack was round-hole and [...]