Category: General
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All I want for Christmas…
Final race of the year yesterday at Kruger’s Farm on Sauvie Island. A cold one so I stayed in bed an extra hour and skipped the preride – it’s usually a pretty nontechnical course. That cost me about 10 seconds due to a bad line through a bog on the first lap, but the extra sleep was probably worth it. Of note, I had…
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One last East Coast wedding
Well, at least for now. The second in as many months – thank goodness for frequent flier miles. This one was for Geordie, the world’s biggest hater of marriage. He met this girl named Sam in recent times and she made him see the light. Really happy for them/that. The trip served as a good excuse to see the family too; stayed with the…
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Catching our breath
With our arrival home at 11pm last night, Heather and I completed an absolutely insane final three months of summer. We still have another visitor spending a week with us at the end of the month, but for all intents and purposes, we’re finally able to kick back and relax. June – Tour de June. Enough said. July 4 – Annual block party in…
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Dear Mom
It has been a year now without you. I miss you a lot. I still think about you a dozen times a day. I still expect to receive a call from you at any moment. You were pretty much the only person who ever called. I used to share my life here and I haven’t in many months. Why? Because you were the main…
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2014 Year in Review
This year was easily the worst of my life. Numerous people passed away, lots of health issues for others, and every time there was a possibility of something going wrong, it would. Farewell, 2014. GTFO. Goals Umm. It seems I didn’t set any. I said I would, but that was in the midst of home buying so I must have just not gotten around…
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Go ahead, talk about death
It’s going to happen. To me, to you, and to everyone you encounter today. In fact, it accounts for half of the experiences that are shared by the entirety of the world’s population (the other is birth). So why don’t we talk about it? For the same reason we don’t tend to talk about race, marriages, salaries, genocide, addiction, etc.; it is uncomfortable. It…