cutting through the fat of this world
I just completed the 2008 Race to Robie Creek, the Northwest’s Toughest Half Marathon. My time was 02:03:32. Not bad, 613th out of 2,431 and 114th out of 230 in my age group. You can view my photos on MySpace in my Race to Robie Creek Album.
There are several things which make [...]
I found myself in Portland this weekend visiting with family. While reading the Saturday paper I discovered that the Susan G. Komen Portland Race for the Cure was on Sunday. Having never run a 5k before, I decided to sign up.
The race was scheduled to start at 7:30 a.m. Last night I got prepared. I [...]
I had my 2001 XC70 parked in the hospital’s garage while my son was being born. On one of my many trips to the car over those 3 days I found a set of keys I had lost and replaced long ago. Since it cost me $300 to replace them, I was happy to have [...]
A Tennessee doctor was arrested in Seattle on July 25, 2007 for calling 911 from a pay phone at the Sea-Tac Airport to say “Flight 980 Memphis. There may be a bomb on board”.
After his arrest, Kou Wei Chiu, 31, of Bellevue, Tenn., admitted to calling 911 3 times in an attempt to stop his [...]
When will it stop? The Huffington Post has a great article on the government’s use of terror threats to keep us all afraid (wouldn’t that make them terrorists by definition?). It’s very well written and concise as it points out the lack of feasibility in each of these alert-level-enhancing events and the government’s careful concoction [...]
What are you thankful for?
Me?
I am most thankful that my dog Lucy made it back home from her wild adventure yesterday.
Yesterday, Seattle was surprised by a midafternoon thunderstorm. Lucy hates thunder and lightning even more than than taking a bath. I only heard a couple of thunder claps and was comfortable knowing that [...]
It looks like it is now too expensive to join the Mile High Club.
But isn’t membership free? Yes, so long as a flight attendant does not ask you to stop.
If a flight attendant asks you to stop your ‘activities’ and you don’t, you are now committing a felony.
From Section 46504 of Title 49 of [...]
Ever wonder if the security at airports is sufficient to stop a trained terrorist? Is the ban on liquids over 3 oz. really keeping us safe? Do I really need to take off my shoes to have them xrayed?
A friend of mine accidentally attempted to go through airport security in Seattle last weekend, with [...]
Last Sunday night (August 27, 2006) at approximately 11pm I experienced my first UFO sighting.
My girlfriend and I were driving back to Seattle from Portland and somewhere outside of Federal Way (around mile marker 149) we saw something falling from the sky leaving a long brilliant green trail behind it that light up the sky [...]
