TL;DR I think I need knee surgery, I set a PR of 10:28, 17:59 5k attempt still on for May. First test of the year? Complete! Running hasn’t been going well. I believe it all stems from my skiing knee injury in college for which I never got proper treatment (outside of PT – I’m
And that, friends, is my longest post title ever. Hypothesis Facebook usage is in decline as evidenced by a sharp decline in the number of birthday wishes received this year. Method Visit Facebook Activity Log, copy + paste from top to bottom of “Others’ Posts To Your Timeline” from approximately February 14-17 (we can assume
For the third time in three years, I’m being laid off. This time my company is shutting its doors. A good portion of folks are already gone, but I’ve been given two months to wrap up my work, document it, and hope someone at a firm specializing in maintaining failed businesses will be able to
I’ve long been fascinated with woodworking. This past weekend I tackled an incredibly simple project with some scrap plywood from some shelving I put into one of our closets (I don’t consider that a woodworking project since there was zero polish involved). This was a great first project because my tools are limited and it’s
Well, kind of. We attempted to depart Portland early Christmas morning, but the guy who ran the jet bridge into our plane had other plans. After a two hour delay, our flight was cancelled. We were rerouted to San Francisco and an eight hour layover. We finally arrived at our hotel at 11pm as opposed
An excellent year. Life Became President of my bike team. Sold her house. Started a great new gig. Bought a house. Got married. Got a 2nd cat. Losses My recipient passed away in September. This was kind of hard on me. Travel The Dalles/Maupin for New Years and a race (January) Mt. Hood/Parkdale for a