I spend a fair amount of time running or on my bike. It’s well-documented that such time can be very therapeutic and good for the mind. I tend to agree. However, rather than coming up with the cure for cancer or anything useful like that, I like to make myself laugh or smile. I don’t know if this will become a regular bit mainly…
Back in early 2009, I gave Twitter a shot. I lasted a handful of days before I realized it was information overload. It still might be, but any tech that has been as popular as it is for as long as it has been is clearly doing something right. It’s possible that it’s merely bringing blogging/sharing your thoughts to those folks who don’t have…
So this whole brain cancer thing has been one bad report after another… We were hopeful we’d someday receive some good news, and we finally have. It still doesn’t mean much since this whole thing can come and kick our asses from out of nowhere in a couple of days, BUT… Mom’s most recent MRI at Duke (last week) showed no growth in her…
Yesterday was the 14th Annual Race for Hope in Washington, D.C. Shortly after Mom was diagnosed with a Grade IV glioblastoma, the husband of a former coworker of hers signed up for the fundraiser/race to honor my mom and raise funds for research into brain tumor cures and set a goal of [I think] $1000. A few weeks into his effort, I decided to…
As I don’t have the time right now to migrate to a new backend, I’ve implemented some changes that should thwart spammers a tiny bit. I’m not requiring registration just yet, but if you run into anything that slows your legitimate commenting down, let me know. I’ll get around to cleaning up the spam comments later today.
Got my first flat tire on a solo ride EVER on Monday night. I seem to avoid flats better than most for some reason; only two road flats and one mountain flat in the years and years and years I’ve been riding. Sure, many of those years didn’t contain much mileage, but still. As always, I was prepared with a spare tube and tiny…