If you don’t follow The Big Picture, a regularly updated feature from the Boston Globe, you should start. Their subject this week was “2009 in photos,” a 3-part series. Some really awesome stuff: Part 1Part 2Part 3
Went to the new sports doc yesterday [more on him later] and received a “Stage 1 Hypertension” result from my blood pressure test. He has to read it on two more occasions before he can actually diagnose me, but it is what it is. Now… what has caused it? According to WebMD, the following are common causes: Smoking – I don’t. Being overweight or…
From the November issue of Washingtonian: ”Some 24 percent of Americans were overweight in the early 1960s; the figure inched up to 25 percent in the ate 1970s. By the late 1990s, it had increased to 33 percent, about where it is today.American men are now 17 pounds heavier on average than they were in the late 1970s, and women are 19 pounds heavier.…
Busy week. Jade’s Journey – Will chronicle Jade’s battle with Leukemia.Wine Club for Men – A [currently] three person club in which we’ll review a bottle of wine each week. In the near future I’ll be creating a site for the IT services company I’ve started, and another for personal running coaching.
I’m a victim. So our company lives in a building with a “public parking” deck residing below it. The deck is owned by one of those big parking companies who runs a significant fraction of all parking decks in the US. Well… It stinks. I just returned home from 30 minutes of circling, finding a “spot” (squeezing in a space that would interfere with…
Anyone outside my family doesn’t know this, but while in utero, my new niece, Emily, was found by an ultrasound technician to have an abnormality. After months of testing and regular checkups, it was decided that she’d be born a bit early since she had stopped growing and they still didn’t know what exactly the abnormality was or what it could be affecting. Birth…