Fun with 8 o’clock sunrise

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Your mom buys you a camera for Christmas, what do you do?

Run down to your local park and take a picture of this fella (or lady, how am I to know?)
(broken link fixed, or let’s hope it was.)

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I’ll take it!

Two bits of good news, both rather small, but still good news. One, though my legs throbbed and ached for most of yesterday after my kick-ass run, today there’s nothing. No muscle soreness, no sign of achy knees or hips or shins. It’s almost as if I’m improving my general fitness through exercise.And [...]

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All right, people, work your magic!

Because many sets of eyes are better than one, and as a rule, I don’t shop for clothes but three or four times a year and therefore know very little about what’s hanging around in actual stores that actually exist in the physical universe, I’d like to request that you keep an eye out for [...]

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Run run run run run

Legs a little weak and throbby, but I did just under 3 1/4 miles in 37 minutes, 25 of which were running minutes. Which means I shaved a whole five minutes off since the last time I went that far. This time I did the walk 5, run 8, walk 3, run 8:30, [...]

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Doing ok

‘Tis the season for freakouts about money. But in the middle of a really good freakout, it’s important to remember that we’re doing ok. 1. Last year we didn’t put aside a separate savings for our gas bills; this year we did. To explain: we budget $120 per month for gas, and [...]

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Signs of the apocalypse

From All Things Considered: Ringtones make up as much as 40% of the revenue of major record labels. And some people, like “T-Pain,” (which, by the way, is a version of T’s nickname we’ve never used), are making their entire careers on the strength of their songs that are sold as ringtones.I am now [...]

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Heat, on.

I ran into my adviser yesterday at a job talk, not totally unexpectedly, but my heart does skip a beat when this happens. And not in a giddy, pleasantly surprised way, but rather an “Oh shit, I haven’t done half of what I should be doing, and he knows it” sort of way. [...]

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Stomach lurching

I just sent off a proposed title and description for a course next summer… cross your fingers, that I might be addled with anxiety for seven weeks from June 17 to August 2 next summer…

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Let the work begin.

Indy won on Thursday, my Bears pulled out a win yesterday afternoon, and Philadelphia handily beat the 22-point spread by holding the Pats to a 3-point victory. All is right with my NFL world.I also downloaded a 30-day trial of Scrivener yesterday, which I think will work much better than the combination of Word, [...]

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