Father, Husband, Website Developer, Entrepreneur, Blogger, Geocacher, Gen Xer, Libertarian
Meatless Monday is a new thing for us. Today was our second time participating. We are doing this as part of our bid to eat more healthy foods in more health proportions. We have no desire or intention to become vegan, or even vegetarian but we have drastically cut back on the meat we consume and shifted what [...]
She tells you to pick your feet up and you try, but they are like lead weights hanging from the ends of your legs. They don’t hurt any more, but you just can’t feel them at all, and shuffling is so much safer than stumbling and falling. You can’t begin to estimate how long you’ve [...]
I know I should have felt guilty and I’m fairly certain that there had been a time when I would have. I have a vague memory of feeling guilt. Something to do with a girl, I’m certain. Still I pushed the button and waited for the machine to respond. The machine wouldn’t care about my [...]
As the cloud of smoke blew back into her face she strained to hold her place. The temptation to move was almost overwhelming, and if not for her extensive training she would certainly have bolted already. It took only a second to squeeze the release lever that sent the penetrator speeding across the valley to slam into [...]
You watched the old man circle the car1 in a slow methodical ritual that had not deviated in all the time you’d known him. While you waited, impatience growing, he stopped at each light and reflector to inspect them for cracks and wear. He took the precise measure of the air in each tire twice [...]
I held her hand as we entered the church1. I felt the tremor in her fingers a block before we had arrived, but as we climbed the stately stone steps, the tremors graduated and became fully fledged spasms. The sky, a piercing blue, offered no foreboding hint of what was about to happen, but her [...]
Weight loss failure . Well, I’ve now gained back 20 of he pounds I so painstakingly lost. I’m back up to 297 lbs. from my low of 270 lbs. Weight Loss Problem Statement The factors are involved in this problem statement as I see it are: MyFitnessPal was a pain in the ass. While monitoring [...]
This is my End of the World Cache , a video response to the End of the World Geocoin Contest . My cache choice would be the Proffit Mountan Cache, which is actually above Proffit Mountain, on Taum Sauk Mountain, overlooking the Taum Sauk Reservoir.
More and more often it seem that, at my age, recharging involve assuming a vertical orientation and shuttering the lids. Recharging With A Nature Fix in the Geek Woods One activity that gives me a boost for a while after I do it is Geocaching. I get outdoors and I get to exercise the mind [...]
I suspected it was going to be a bad day when the tie I didn’t want to wear in the first place got tangled in the belt buckle that barely fastened the belt about my waist. When It ripped coming out, I knew it for certain. I guess the universe had something against me working [...]
profile I track calories with fatsecrets.com
I track workouts with endomondo.com
I track my hikes on EveryTrail.com
