A Rose By Any Other Name

I was sitting next to a guy named Jonathon at a meeting today. After noticing me fixating on his notebook for a while, he asked me what my deal was. “That’s my middle name,” I said, motioning to his book, “but I can’t decide if it’s spelled the same way or not.” But I forgot [...]

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In Between

Last Tuesday, I escaped from snowy Connecticut. It’s been 6 weeks since I’ve lived at home for more than 2 straight days (well, OK, I was there for almost a week when our flights to WA were canceled), and it’s been a strange adjustment. When you live somewhere else most of the time, you start [...]

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What I’m Going To Wear

Jo wants to know what I’m going to wear. Today I’m wearing a button down shirt (with stripes, vertical) and khakis. I have a full complement of under garments as well. I intend to wear shoes. Tomorrow will likely be similar.

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High In the Uintas

As far as I can tell, I never posted this from Algonquin last year. I’ll have to do that sometime. This year I hardly had a chance to write while we were out in the wild, but here’s all of it, plus a recap from tonight. 7/9/10 2344 MST We’re here at J’Ann and Scott’s [...]

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Nine Days In Connecticut

I returned to Baltimore on the early morning Acela train this morning, having spent the last 9 days in Connecticut. During those nine days, I worked 109 hours, mostly in two shifts a day with naps in between. For instance, I stopped working on Friday night around 11 PM (I think), then worked from 11AM [...]

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Leap Before You Look

I wanted to called this “look before you leap”, but wouldn’t you know it, I already did that. For the first time in my life, I went to to sit down on a toilet and didn’t check to see if the seat was down. It was an abrupt and foreign thing. Thankfully, we keep our [...]

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For the Faithful

A few days ago, longtime reader Kristine requested that I post any important news on the website before I posted it on facebook. This way, the “faithful” would know before the man on the street. A perfectly agreeable idea. Anyway, Jen and I are engaged as of this morning. I’ll post a full run down [...]

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Da Da Blahbity Blahbity Man-Cub

A few weeks ago, Steve announced he was going to be running the mile at Penn Relays – the race started at 4:30 PM. The only problem? I had already made plans to watch My Fair Lady with Tim, Jo and the missus in Maryland that evening. Now, in my defense, I quickly rescheduled My [...]

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Because It Was There

A few days ago, while my neighbors covered their eyes and waited for a crack and thud, I scaled the little tiny tree in my backyard for the sake of ripping ivy from the branches. The tree barely had the biomass to support my weight 15 feet up…but I have experience in trees. We worked [...]

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Triangle

Dr J and I went down home North Carolina for the weekend, visiting my brother in Raleigh, then the McCoys in Durham. In his race, Steve didn’t look too hot early on but ended up showing his fitness in the end, bringing home a comfortable 14:02 while winning a tactical race at Raleigh Relays on [...]

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Union Bridge

Time is not something I have a lot of these days. That and sleep. Still, Dr J and I found time to take a little mini road trip on Friday. I wanted to take a map, find a spot neither of us had ever been, then take back roads to it. We chose Union Bridge, [...]

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Slow Degradation

I’m watching my hits trend downward, like the stock market only slower. Never fear, I’ll write something someday. Coming up: trip to NYC this weekend. Trip to Raleigh at the end of the month. Trip to Poconos beginning of next month. Trip to bed, right after I shove some food in me.

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It’s Because You’re Not 14

I just had this exchange with the verizon person in my head: Me: Why is it that I’m no longer allowed to create my own ringtones? Them: We have a wide variety of ringtones at verizonwireless.com. Me: But you don’t have anything good. Every one that I’ve ever made is better than any that is [...]

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Somewhere Between Horrendous and Awesome

Just OK? Yes, just OK. My break was OK. I slept late and ate well. I lost at cards every single time we played and had a surly attitude for a week straight, for reasons other than cards. Some good, some bad. So yes, just OK. I’m not sure how I feel about a scale [...]

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Bolivion

Trip to the city was just what I was looking for. Katie and I went to the Museum of Natural History. We talked, we laughed; just like old times. Only in the Museum of Natural History and not while sitting on her freshman (and sophomore, junior, senior) year dormroom floor. After parking in a spot [...]

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Artic North

It has been chilly in Baltimore these last two weeks. Night time temps have hovered around a raw 30, flurries have been dusting unpaved surfaces, and the wind has been blowing steadily. It’s really nothing to write home about, especially when home is New York. Today I head to Manhattan, for an evening with Lara [...]

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Tear Down The Wall

Good morning Worm, your honor, the crown will plainly show the prisoner who now stands before you, was caught red-handed showing feeling, showing feeling of an almost human nature. This will not due. I’ve confused a lot of people recently. My new facebook account is coated with comments along the lines of “I can’t believe [...]

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Don’t Leave Me Unpopular

I just made a facebook profile. Everyone’s grandparents are doing it. I don’t want to update it, but I also want to have more than the 3 friends. It’s really sad if you only have three friends. So be my friend, for the love of God. I will reject no one*. I will whore myself [...]

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Picture Is Worth A Thousand Worthless Words

After nearly a decade, I was with this person all weekend. I just dropped her, along with a quarter of my heart and maybe half my spleen, off at the airport. I love my spleen. There were other pictures from the weekend too, pictures that wove a story that wasn’t played out on the stage [...]

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Odd Bird Collector

At long last, the always interesting Julia Lucas has broken her silence. It’s somehow encouraging that she’s off doing strange things somewhere. As for me, by time this post publishes, strange things should be happening here too! Ahh, good times all around. Addendum Lauren has posted her synopsis of the wedding. Alas, I did not [...]

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Graduating From Q School

I’d like to have a moment of silence for my last Q-Tip. Those of you who have been reading for a long time understand the arbitrary metaphorical significance. There are a handful of you that understand the irony involved here as well. It’s just a damn Q-Tip! And 1499 of his friends, but still, just [...]

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Little Shocks of Love

In the same way that I enjoy piling awkward situations on top of each other, I am a fan of combining less than fun appointments into megastructures of miserableness. Today I finally got shockwave therapy on my achilles. This involved getting no less than three full syringes of anesthetic into the region, to the point [...]

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You Shall Be Called Peter

I was online early in life. While one of the last people in my class (it was a rich class) not to have a computer, by the time I was 14, I was enmeshed in the a/s/l world of IRC and ICQ – the precursors to AIM, on the early wave of online chat communities. [...]

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I Wish I Was a Little Bit Taller

A few days ago, pseudo-roommate Bethany refused to believe that I was a mere 6′. Nope, I told her, I’ve been 6′ even for a decade now. Here in Goshen we have a wall, next to the bathroom that Steve and I used since 1993, which documents our heights. Throughout my mother’s major rennovations, she [...]

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Advance Token To St. Charles Place

While nothing is eminent, there’s a lot of chatter regarding the tropics these days. The peak is about a week into September, so we’re moving into the meat and potatoes of the tropical season currently. That said, the environment over much of the tropics is particularly favorable for development as we speak, and the upper [...]

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Save Your Eyes

Some people might think it odd that I wrote a 3400 word summary of the trip. Those people shouldn’t click here. Because there are 3400 words there. Addendum More pictures in the New Pictures bin. I need to clarify again – these are pictures from on the trail – that means that I felt compelled [...]

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With Your Kind

We met many people out on the trails. Some were grizzled outdoorsmen – themselves in the middle of summer long treks through the wild. The rest were extremely successful people, some with families, some without, but all with personal resumes featuring firepower. While camping at the Kootenai Lakes, about 7 miles south of Canada, we [...]

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Walk In The Woods

Tomorrow AM we leave for Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana. Steve and I, God willing, arrive at O’Hare (from Raleigh and BWI) then jump on the same flight in to Kalispell, MT – about 45 miles to the south west of the park. There we catch a shuttle in, talk to the back country [...]

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Meanwhile

Brother Stephen and I are now five days out from our epic adventure to Glacier NP in Northern Montana. Two days in lodges (one that we have to pack to), four days in the backcountry, two days in lodges (one in Canada). Four days of bar formed foods, low sleep, and my brother trying to [...]

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Consumer Loyalty

I want to see a double feature of Wanted and Wall-E. They both start with W, someone must offer double features based on that sort of criterion. That’s my goal for July 4th weekend. I don’t think I have enough friends to bring such a plan to fruition, however, and seeing a movie by one’s [...]

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That’s the Sound of Inevitability

It was a warm, sunny, breezy mid-September day at Orange Country Park, the year 1993. We had a dual meet against Pine Bush, the first race of the first season, on their home course. We lost. There was a tremendous hill, one that 12 year olds should not be expected to climb in their first [...]

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The Sun is a Lightbulb…

A few months ago, I cataloged my excursions into different music. A few weeks ago, I got a gift certificate from work which can be spent only on useless things. I am currently reaping the rewards, as I meander even further afield of my roots. From the beginning, however, my musical tastes could not be [...]

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All Over But The Shouting

My class officially ends tomorrow, thereafter I will begin to think again. As it turns out, I haven’t had to think that hard this week either, I’m just trying to stockpile thoughts until after the presentation. I’m considering charging my entire time at class tomorrow to training. Why? Because I decided that I deserve it. [...]

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Stomatae

1) I sleep with a night boot on my left foot, to aid in achilles healing. The idea is that if my achilles heals while elongated at night, I won’t tear it back up as I amble toward the bathroom first thing in the morning. Of all the treatments I’ve done over the past couple [...]

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Five Year Plans With Four Minute Shelf Lives

I found a new ab workout last night. By four in the morning, when I tried to move my legs or reposition in bed, I thought I was going to rip my stomach in half – it was that effective. I was so proud of my clever masochism, because, damnit, it was going to make [...]

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Peace Of Quiet

It has been a long, busy last several months. I continue to learn a lot of things in a variety of arenas. One thing I’ve never needed to learn was how to buckle down and get stuff done. After a few months of doing that, however, it gets old as it takes an unholy alchemy [...]

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Furthermore

I not only want to watch Speed Racer (on IMAX), but I also look forward to the day when I can have a cat again. Tim and Jo, proud owners of a new blog about their baby, which has, incidentally, been attempted before (with little success) referred me to this video about cats and engineers. [...]

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There’s Something You Should Know

I want to see Speed Racer, the movie. And I want to see it on IMAX. I feel much better now.

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Excuses

The good part about being busy is that I become utterly obsessive compulsive and can do nothing but productive work for all of my waking hours. And part of my sleeping hours, for that matter. I haven’t had any time to think about anything worth writing about. Perhaps I’ve had time, I just haven’t had [...]

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Roots

I always thought that I’d one day escape Maryland. However, I know too many people here now. Work is going too well. My church is too vibrant. So I’m going to buy a house in the Autumn time frame. And here is what I’m looking for.

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