Criminey, it’s 4:30 AM and I’m wide awake.  I’ll make up before my alarm goes off fairly regularly and either be prepared to hit the snooze alarm right as it goes off or just shut it off right before it sounds, but 4:30?  My alarm’s not scheduled to go off until 6 AM.  It’s going [...]

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My feeling of security in this neighborhood was greatly shaken when I discovered a couple of weeks ago that my car had been broken into and rifled through, so imagine my feeling when I woke up this morning and discovered someone in my apartment.
I could hear them, firstly.  I heard someone rustling around in the [...]

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Onion rings, wine, Caesar salad, more wine, bread, New York strip steak, garlic mashed potatoes, more wine, cheesecake, and a glass of very, very good port.  That’s exactly what I wanted for dinner.

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My legs hurt. They’re going to hurt tomorrow, I’ll wager.
Around mile nine and a half of my half-marathon this morning, my iPod’s battery ran dry and I was forced to jog sans music for the last three miles. That wasn’t really a big deal since the music is mostly just to pass the [...]

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I assured someone recently that I wasn’t going to brag about my culinary skills or running endurance, and yet, somehow both those topics were broached in conversation. Unintentionally, I managed to blow away the self-confidence of a total stranger, too. As I’m having lunch yesterday and describing my running route to a friend [...]

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I described myself for the first time as a “runner” the other day, and I’ve figured out that describing one’s self as someone who “jogs” and “a runner” elicit two very different reactions from people. With the former, people give you a response of “Ohhhhhhhh” and a look that reminds me of dawning comprehension. [...]

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Pints to Pasta went beautifully. Better than I thought it would.
I bumped into a coworker here on Friday who works at our Seattle office and was in town for the weekend, and found out she was planning on running the race, too, and when I told her I had new socks and a new [...]

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In the last week, I feel like I’ve been used and abused by the dregs of humanity. It was about time, I suppose.
First, I discovered that the email feature of my website had been hijacked and was being used to send spam to people, and so I simultaneously got a few emails from my [...]

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