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March 10, 2010

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Swine Flu

 

Monday.  How am I?  I have the swine flu, so this is going to be short. 

Ran/walked the 5K in 49:48 last Wednesday.  Burned 533 calories on the elliptical machine at the Y on Friday.  Feeling bad has hampered my exercising, but I feel like that is a better excuse than some I’ve given [...]

Two Histories

Original photograph hosted at Flickr.com.

Sometimes, by happy accident, I am able to post something that meets more than one of my six life-foci.  This falls under three!

Should I Rescue This Dog?

I am having a crisis of conscience. 

This afternoon my wife and I traveled to Clay County, Alabama to visit where her family is from and where they used to hold their family reunions and so forth.  While trying to find an old cemetery along a dirt road outside of Lineville, we stopped to [...]

Weekly Tweet Regurgitation for 2009-08-29

New blog: Travel is…. http://bit.ly/ofDNf #
Heading down to Wetumpka for some FIL birthday lunch. Running a bit late. #
'Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.' – Woody Allen #
Amicitia et familia. http://bit.ly/ofDNf Just a little bitchin. #
Back to the grind. Numbers. [...]

Homeward

Original photograph hosted at Flickr.com.

Farewell Teddy

Senator Edward M. Kennedy  1932-2009

It is a sad day, to be sure… and it would have been regardless of the political climate.  But with the bitter partisanship, the stalemates and standoffs, the pussyfooting and the pandering, appeasement and acquiescence, the embellishments and the fearmongering and the overarchingly corrosive debates going on across the [...]