The 10k Pints to Pasta race came and went, and I did better than I thought I would, but not nearly as good as two years ago when I last ran.  I wouldn’t say I’m out of shape, just not in as good of shape.  Carrying extra weight and running yes doesn’t help, but I [...]

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I think that after the elections–or maybe before, depending on the next 60 days or so–I’m going to need a detox.  The whole nomination of Sarah Palin is just too much for me to take.  It’s one…scandal…after…another.  It’s like crack.  I just can’t get enough of this nonsense.  And if this is how I feel, [...]

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Despite my self-embargo of all things booze until my 10k next month, I wanted to stop by the Green Dragon tonight and snag a mug of Bridgeport’s Hop Czar for their Meet the Brewer night tonight.  I especially wanted some of the cask-conditioned Hop Czar that was scheduled to be tapped, consumed in the Green [...]

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Hanne is quite the remarkable woman.  In the nearly two years we’ve been dating, she’s managed to get me to eat more fruits and vegetables (and not just as garnish or a side dish), less meat (I’m now ordering Thai food with tofu instead of chicken), and back on my bike.  She’s destroyed me!  Eh, [...]

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As of a minute ago, I’m now committed to running 6.2 miles in the Pints to Pasta 10K race that I last ran two years ago.  Now, on the surface this may seem like a fairly normal thing given my past discussions of running and how much I like to run, but keep in mind [...]

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The day after I sent my email to everyone I could find regarding the Best Brews internship, I got a call back from someone who gave me an apology, but it didn’t seem like she’d actually read the email I sent out and seemed to think I just had some sour grapes about not being [...]

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I’ve been pretty lax about running in the last few weeks ever since Hanne and I joined the Portland Rock Gym.  In fact, I’ve been running exactly once in that time, and that was on a treadmill at the gym, so I’m not sure if that really counts.  Hanne was getting back later than usual [...]

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Climbing is something that I always liked to do, though I haven’t done it in about 15 years.  I used to climb trees as a kid to the point where I even had paths up different trees.  When I was in middle school, I used to climb on a climbing wall they had there once [...]

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Having been exposed to a number of blogs in my time, I’d definitely classify my own as a “Dear Diary” sort of blog.  What’s kind of sad about the whole thing, though, is that my diary is less of a place where I can write down my thoughts and feelings to express myself, but rather, [...]

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I hate ants.  I really do.  Third year in a row and almost a week later and I’m still dealing with those creepy crawlies searching my kitchen for foodstuff.  I thought I had their entry points contained.  I thought by the use of a combination of poison and deterrents I could establish chokepoints and put [...]

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Well, I caved and came out tonight.  I had made a decision that I wasn’t going to drink for a few nights just to give my body some time to hopefully remetabolize (hell, is that even a word?) my body to deal with some of the calories I’ve ingested in the last week, and also, [...]

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There’s something almost transcendent about working on computer stuff and listening to techno music, that beat driving you with whatever you’re doing.  It also helps that I’m downing a Grande skinny cinnamon dolce latte from Starbucks as my first dose of caffeine of the day, so that’s likely helped my blood get pumping a bit, [...]

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To say that Hanne and I went apartment hunting today would be a slight misnomer, but we did look at two apartments together, but I think it was more of a showing than anything else.  You see, while Hanne and I have discussed moving in together at times in the past, we hadn’t really gotten [...]

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Happy New Year!  Better late than never, I say.  I didn’t make any real New Year’s Resolutions as I so rarely do except to start running more.  The time of year that just passed is tough on the waistline, and while I’ve been antsy about my weight recently, I have yet to make a concerted [...]

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Two shows at the Roseland Theater in one week.  Not bad, considering that before those two shows I think I’ve been to one whole show in all of 2007.  The first show was David Gray and Collective Soul last Friday night.  That was a particularly interesting concert, musically and for, shall we say, other reasons.  [...]

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