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144 days ago
I'm headed to Japan for two weeks with my girlfriend! This is the first traveling I've done in a while, so I'm really excited about it. We have a nice schedule lined up to hit lots of different towns and events in 14 days. I'll try to post some pictures of us doing/eating fun things while we're out there, but in case I can't/don't, I'll do a big post when I get back. Probably best to check my facebook for more regular updates as it requires less of a time commitment than blogging ;)
144 days ago
So I've been having some lower back pain off and on for a few years--most certainly related to poor sleep posture combined with bad exercise and biking. It finally spiked in the last two months and I needed to do something about it because it was affecting my ability to do things like sit or lay down or stand up or sleep :( Anyhow, when biking to work started to feel like something that was going to leave me in pain for the rest of the day, I finally started seeing a chiropractor. It's only been three weeks and I feel about 90% of normal again! We've even moved onto some other problem areas because the low back feels so much better. I also moved to Plymouth from S. Minneapolis (but I've been biking mostly from New Hope this summer) since I stopped riding and started seeing the chiro, so a bike commute will be almost 40mi/day. Except for some shorter rides with Molly around town, next Tuesday is my first day back in the saddle for a real commute. I'm going to try to work up to it ...
162 days ago
[I wrote this last month and then took a few weeks to decide if I should post it. There is no way to write something like this without being a huge asshole and validating the claimant on some level. I guess I'm a huge asshole...] So my soon-to-be-ex is out of the country and her mother is watching the house and the cat. I stopped by to visit with the cat and pick up some mail that was delivered there, and my soon-to-be-ex mother-in-law Maggie let me in on some interesting theories that she said she and her son Max have developed about the emotional abuse I'm supposed to have perpetrated against her daughter--which has apparently interfered with their relationships with her for some time. Maggie said that she and Max have been working on these theories for a few years. Although she was ready, momma bear-like, to personally attack me and heap scorn upon me while I was conveniently located within shouting distance, she and Max have apparently been too busy or too unconcerned to ever ...
168 days ago
Wonderful story! I am obviously not exposed to enough decent coverage on moderate Islam, because this was a big eye-opener for me. Ahmad al-Shugairi feels comfortable not just *hinting* that specific examples of Muslim principles may be better embodied in non-Muslim societies--he's on a mission to literally make Muslims jealous of aspects of various non-believers' social norms. I had no idea that a message like this had an audience in the Middle East. This is something I would expect to see in a theoretical presentation at a Unitarian church, not broadcast across the Muslim world. The Rise of "Satellite Sheiks"
180 days ago
I was reading about North Korea today and was inspired to write a haiku: North Korean 'fun' does not involve flat noodles mushroom cloud over Seoul And as I was reading through a requirements document I listened to the NPR 24hr program stream and heard two people talking about accidental nuclear war. I brainstormed with a coworker for a while to come up with some themes about nuclear devastation. He asked me why and I said I wanted some material for Haikus. When he got done laughing at me, we came up with the following list: wasteland hungry/food sad/lonely frightened radiation (bonus for mentioning iodine) shelter supplies/medicine So here they are, not necessarily in that order ;) after the world ends slow mutants shuffle about the dead are lucky long pork is tasty when the other choice is dirt sorry little sis I'm so tired tonight still hiding from cannibals must not fall asleep hair has fallen out tempurature high glands ...
