Last week, my friend Becky came to town. We see each other about every five years, and we went out to a fancy dinner at a restaurant called Canlis. Some of the highlights...the valet guy didn't give us a ticket, and the car was waiting for us when we got to the door; we found a bottle of wine for under $100; we ordered five appetizers -- ribs, foie gras, sashimi, steak tartare and one other thing. The steak tartare was the best of the bunch I think. It was prepared with diced onions, peppers and tomatoes on top, and had some spices mixed in. Awesome.
The next day we drove to canada, where she was meeting her family for a cruise up the inner passage to alaska. We made it in record time, even though I rolled through a stop sign at the canadian border, and almost had to get the full cavity search.
Becky encouraged me to write a book, back when I was in grad school. I don't know if I'll do that, but at least she has catalyzed one more blog entry!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Learning about Adsense
I just set up my first keywords via Google Adsense. I don't even know what inspired me to do it. I just clicked on a link and in less than 5 minutes I had an ad at the top of my blog. I had just written about saving the rainforest with Lil Green Patch in Facebook, and I got a public service ad in some way focused on the environment. Crazy!
Now I just need to figure out something to write about which someone would want to read.
Now I just need to figure out something to write about which someone would want to read.
Testing the ability to use the "Greenies to Go" functionality
I spend time playing on Facebook these days. One of my favorite apps is L'il Green Patch, where I can send plants to my friends, and someone supposedly donates money to save the rainforest. I have saved 26 square feet of rainforest, and now I get an icon which you see below. Yay, me!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Intro Blog
As I lay awake tonight on my 10th annual 29th birthday -- that's 38 (the math is hard to do) -- I decided once again to try and build a blog. I don't know how successful I will be, as I've never been a prolific writer before. My wife (jendogger the knitblogger) blogs about knitting and is much more the creative type. Her blog can be found at http://jehndi.blogspot.com/. She also maintains a pictorial website about our 4 year old Toby at http://www.jendogger.com. I don't know if this is exactly is a blog since it's mostly pictures.
The last time I started blogging I was writing about training for a marathon. I ran one last year (it seems so long ago), while in parallel following an intense low carb diet. I started at 205 pounds (this is pretty fat if you're 5' 5"), and was about 160 when I finished the training/race in Feb 07. The race I ran was the Birch Bay Marathon and as you can see I finished about two thirds of the way down, at 4:25:39. The first half of the race was fun. My friend Ed Leonard and I ran the first half of the race in 2 hours flat, and things were going well. At the 17 mile mark though, there was this little hill...well, not such a little hill at the time. It was short but steep. I turned on the AC/DC on my iPod Shuffle
and hammered up the hill. I got to the top of the hill quickly, and waited for Ed to join me, as he was going slow and steady...but as I walked at the top of the hill, I found that the tank was empty. The next 9 miles were much tougher than the first 17. I began walking 1 minute and then running 9, and slowly entered a downward spiral until I was lucky to walk 5 and run 5. The last 5 miles were along the Bay, with a headwind blowing in, and a temperature of about 34 degrees. The side of my head grew numb while I was walking, as the wind blew in from the Bay. Long story short though, I came in just under four and a half hours, and can now call myself a marathoner!
I have now managed to undo all the good in the past 15 months, and I enter age 38 back over 200 lbs.
The last time I started blogging I was writing about training for a marathon. I ran one last year (it seems so long ago), while in parallel following an intense low carb diet. I started at 205 pounds (this is pretty fat if you're 5' 5"), and was about 160 when I finished the training/race in Feb 07. The race I ran was the Birch Bay Marathon and as you can see I finished about two thirds of the way down, at 4:25:39. The first half of the race was fun. My friend Ed Leonard and I ran the first half of the race in 2 hours flat, and things were going well. At the 17 mile mark though, there was this little hill...well, not such a little hill at the time. It was short but steep. I turned on the AC/DC on my iPod Shuffle
and hammered up the hill. I got to the top of the hill quickly, and waited for Ed to join me, as he was going slow and steady...but as I walked at the top of the hill, I found that the tank was empty. The next 9 miles were much tougher than the first 17. I began walking 1 minute and then running 9, and slowly entered a downward spiral until I was lucky to walk 5 and run 5. The last 5 miles were along the Bay, with a headwind blowing in, and a temperature of about 34 degrees. The side of my head grew numb while I was walking, as the wind blew in from the Bay. Long story short though, I came in just under four and a half hours, and can now call myself a marathoner!I have now managed to undo all the good in the past 15 months, and I enter age 38 back over 200 lbs.
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