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“It’s dollars… to doughnuts… that our state fair… has the most vehicle-mounted surface-to-air short-range aircraft suppression systems in the state!”
This afternoon, Kate and I visited the Kimberton Community Fair, where Kate had entered a quilt — which won a red ribbon! Hurrah! And that’s without sneaking any whiskey into the mincemeat. There are pictures on her blog. Congratulations! And congratulations too to Kate’s cousin Dina, whose lemon meringue pie took a blue ribbon.…
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Respect for Richard Simmons.
Starting weight: 230 lbs Target weight: 185 lbs Current weight: 220 lbs De-big-ulation process: 22% complete I’m motivated by success — if I feel like I’m doing a good job at something, I like to devote more effort to it to see if I can do an even better job. If I’m doing a really…
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I wasn’t expecting to rant so hard about this.
My cousin Max Alexander wrote a response to this op-ed piece in the NY Times. The original piece starts with an accurate, though obvious, observation — people who shop in growers’ markets tend to be pompous, rich, self-righteous, and vicariously entertaining. One trip to the West Chester Grower’s market will give you a month’s dose…
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Bragging, blogging, dieting, and determination
Starting weight: 230 lbs Goal weight: 185 lbs Currently: 223 lbs De-big-ulation: 16% complete I’ve been doing pretty well on the Weight Watchers points — I use the online tool to track what I eat, which is the most valuable part for me. I would probably do just as well if I wrote everything down…
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What I did on my summer vacation
2005-07-13 102 Originally uploaded by tikaro. We’re back. Pennsylvania is an odd analogue of Trinity, right now: all the mist, twice the heat, but no fog horn. While we were up there, we also visited the geocache we placed on our honeymoon. On Monday, when champion babysitter Afton watched Lydia, we put on orange survival…
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In Newfoundland
2005-07-10 075 Originally uploaded by tikaro. We’re in Trinity, Newfoundland on vacation. Lydia is having the time of her life — riding around in the backpack, making new friends, and laughing at the ocean: “a pool! a pool!” There are many whales here, unlike previous times when we’ve come up too late in the year…
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Gonna fly now! Flying high now!
Starting weight: 230 lbs Goal weight: 185 lbs Currently: 227 lbs De-fatassification: 6.7% complete So this morning, I got up, put Lydia in the baby stroller, and strapped on a constellation of electronic devices: My FS-1 Fitness Speedometer, a radio-linked foot pod accelerometer, a radio-linked heart rate monitor strap, and a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS…
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Are you “fed up” with seeing the huskies walk off with the best of everything?
So begins the famous Charles Atlas comic-book pitch: “The INSULT that made a MAN out of “Mac.” Which is kind of funny, since as a husky, well… I have very little to complain about in life, but my weight bothers me. It bothers me a lot. Now, this is not a plea for reassurance: I…
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As a kid, this is what I hoped adult life would be like all the time
Here’s Kate knitting in the sidecar this weekend. Holy cow, did I feel like a god-damned hipster.
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Weekend Update: Guerilla Drive-In Beta 3; Kieran Downes visits
My good friend and ex-colleague Kieran Downes drove all the way down from Boston to visit us last weekend, which delighted all members of the family. Kieran had just completed motorcycle safety school, and so we got a chance to go for a couple of motorcycle rides [save file and open in GEarth]. Kieran rode…
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