• Race: Six Hours of Mt. Hood

    The first big race of the year and my first time doing this classic. I chose to solo, which meant as many 6.5mi / 1000ft ascent laps I could get in before 6:30 was up. The course was fairly brutal in terms of a “marathoner.” As is typical of Oregon (at least in my neck

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  • Buckle up! Big time catch-up post

    Yeah, it’s been a few months. Lots has occurred. Some the heaviest of heavy. I don’t mean to minimize any of these things, but I do need to get up to date so this is how it’ll go. Rebecca’s Dad On March 28, Rebecca’s father passed away after a long battle with cancer. I was

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  • Today I got to do the coolest thing ever

    SAVE A LIFE! And it was easy. I’m so unbelievably honored to have been given the opportunity. Where does life even go after something like this? I kid… Enough emo. Let me tell you all about it! Step 1 – The Call A few months ago I received a call that felt like a scam.

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  • Board Games, they’re what’s for lunch

    The following is a post I made to our company-wide intranet, a highly trafficked space for our 12,000 global employees to share things from their lives, work, research, etc. “Adult” board gaming is a subject a lot of folks don’t know about, but are intrigued and hooked by when introduced so here’s me trying to

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  • The chances of seeing Rebecca’s purple yoga pants on TV

    Days I watch the morning news… 1 in 30 Days my TV is accidentally still tuned to Fox (days after football games I cared to watch)… 1 in 182.5 How often a plane is hit by the deicing truck… I’d like to think this doesn’t happen often How often someone makes the news without knowing

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  • Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

    Did you know your posthumous options are greater than pumping your heavy metals into the atmosphere and enclosing yourself in many thousands of dollars worth of metal box inside a concrete box only to turn into a hot stewy mess? For the most part, I didn’t. This book dives into those alternatives, provides the history of

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