It’s been a busy few days. Lots of stuff going on. But let’s start with something funny that I have in common with this girl who ran the ING Georgia Half Marathon today. Let’s Compare! That was last Friday while I was giving a presentation on Diverging Diamond Interchanges (Soon to be a podcast at …
Category Archives: Personal
Wedding Dress Cleaning Racket
So we’ve had this thing in a bag. It’s been in a bag since it was stuffed in there on the morning of July 20, 2003. This thing is Jenn’s wedding dress. It has been in the bag every since, transported from Maine back to Oklahoma by the good graces of my sister where we …
Consumer Dissatisfaction/Frustration
My Mother-in-Law gave us a plate for Christmas. This plate belongs with our china pattern, Vintage Jewel. When we received it, I commented to Jenn that we should take the plate and upgrade it by getting the rest of the setting, plus one more full setting as that would get us to six total. For …
Ridding House of Crap, Part XXIV
I’ve had some computers and associated peripherals lying around for a long time. One of these computers has moved from NY to TX to TX to GA to GA and will never again be moved unless that move is to an electronics disposal center or a person who wants spare parts. During this time, as …
Preparing for the Race Season
A purchase I’ve been avoiding to date has been a maintenance stand for my bicycle. I haven’t been avoiding it because I wanted to. I’ve been avoiding it because of cost; there continually were other things to spend money on when it came to bikes and racing. Unfortunately it is, ummmm, “inconvenient” to do maintenance …
Snow!
You may be aware that the East Coast of these here United States has been enjoying some interesting times this winter. From record cold temps to record snowfalls, everybody has been invited to the party. Even Atlanta has had it’s share of fun, shown above. Jenn and I poked around outside and threw some snowballs, …
Pimping my Ebay Listings
Want to buy one of the best engineering reference books that exists in the English language? One stop shopping over at Ebay for the Engineer in Training Reference manual by Michael R. Lindeburg, PE. I put this book to good use when I took the FE/EIT.
New Bag
My all-around carry sack has needed serious repair and/or replacement for a while. I decided to replace it with a Chrome Metropolis messenger bag. It’s big, it’s waterproof, it’s a heck of a lot easier to deal with when you’re on your bike yet it will still suffice for my general use which is hauling …
Workouts – Back to Basics
Today I began something that I should probably have been doing all along. It might have averted the little tiny problem I had last fall. That thing is: core workouts every day. Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t plan to put in a 45 minute abs-back-hips intensive crushing exercise session every single day. What I plan …
Why I will Never be a Politician
I will never be a politician. One of the reasons is because if I were, I’d have to say stuff like this: The process used to get this bill to 60 votes was unlike anything I had never [sic] seen before. Deals were cut behind closed doors for individual senators and their states at the …