Category Archives: Life

May 11, 2012
A Summary of my Summer Travel – Am I visiting you?

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I live my life like a marathon. It’s actually the wrong approach because I am burned out easily. I take on something new and then stop for a while or switch gears. It’s dangerous and it’s also often a turn off to people. I did that with beer from January to May. I’m still enjoying [...]

May 4, 2012
Reading More Books in 2012 – My Progress so Far

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In January, I promised to read more books. Prior to 2012, I might have barely started a book each year. The last book I finished was an assignment to me in grade school so I had gone without reading for 7 years. I’m not a fan of fiction so I picked up a few books [...]

March 11, 2012
The snow is melting. Let’s talk about Spring.

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I’m wearing a short sleeve shirt today and riding around the mountains with the sun roof open. I even opened the back window so Goomba could get some fresh air for the first time in a car since October. We received a few inches of snow this week but it’s melting pretty fast and the [...]

January 24, 2012
The City

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It’s easy to forget about our past lives. If you’re pushing yourself to new heights, new adventures and new skills, you of yesterday should be distant and nearly irrelevant. Elizabeth and I spent an evening in Washington DC catching up with friends she went to school with. There was dining, drinking, dancing and storytelling. It [...]

January 9, 2012
A year (or more) away from Tech Conferences

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The last tech conference I attended was SXSW in March of last year. Prior to that, Blogworld was in between trips to Columbus and Amsterdam. I really love those two shows because of the people, the content and the locations. Austin and Vegas are two of my favorite cities and it’s great to see all [...]

January 4, 2012
Our Comfort Zone

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It has been three days since I last checked Facebook. I haven’t had coffee or beer or meat in three days and my level of boredom from the lack of television and other stimulants grows at an even greater pace than my appetite. It’s also the 11th day that my neighbors smoke marijuana from dawn [...]

January 3, 2012
Starting my Annual Detox…now.

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Wasting no time following my last post, “Hello 2012.” I have decided to kick off the annual detox a month early and I’m upping the challenge from last year in a way that seems completely impossible but is worth a shot. This is not a resolution for the new year and I welcome all of [...]

December 31, 2011
Hello 2012.

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Another year has passed and I’m happy about everything that happened. In the material world, not much has changed in a way that I should document beyond what has been written on this blog. The lack of changes in my job, home and geographical location allowed me a few things that were missing from previous [...]

December 31, 2011
Parents’ Wishes

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I have a lot of thoughts and many of them are self serving, some are beneficial to others and some are thoughts people actually enjoy thinking about after reading one of these novella-style blog posts on this site. As the Internet knows, this week is one of my twice a year celebration with friends and [...]

November 25, 2011
Conversations with a Stranger in a Cafe in Vermont

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I shared a carafe of coffee with a stranger. It was great and I always adore these passing connections with strangers. She was a vegetarian from down south who is currently residing in Vermont and just returned from 9 months in Sri Lanka. It was a great conversation about culture, adventure and life abroad. Of [...]