Nose-bleed tickets to see the Mariners vs. Padres: $0.00 (won in a drawing) Parking, food, beverages and garlic fries: $43.25 Feel the garlic oozing from every pore! Answering my daughter’s questions on the dropped third-strike rule and baseball’s obsession with tracking the success of left-handed hitters facing right-handed pitchers during night games in June: priceless.
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1Q 2008:Travel to Reno (NV), Vancouver (BC), Portland (OR). Rode (most of) SIR 200k March brevet – So close to finishing. Had my first forty-something physical. Tried volunteering at a local school. Learned that dried spaghetti, when bent enough, will break in at least three places. 2Q 2008: Travel to: Pendleton (OR), Richland (WA) Rode
From what I’ve read and been told, amalgam fillings last 10-12 years. My lowers are 30+ years old, so I wasn’t entirely surprised when my dentist recommended their replacement. (I was surprised that he didn’t find fault with my flossing. Those plastic disposable flossers work!) On Thursday, I had the lefts replaced with composites. Since
In anticipation of my physical, and partly to assuage fears that the post-big four-oh one would entail uncomfortable things, I sleuthed around for things on what to expect, thinking. Clearly I’ve been watching too many episodes of House. The American Academy of Family Physicians[1] has six classifications for their recommendations of common “clinical preventive services:”
Today was my monthly volunteer stint at a local grade school. To recap my previous three sessions: Episode One, writing station: The exercise was to learn the parts of speech by practicing Mad Libs, then create one’s own Mad Lib. A Mad Lib is a story where one provides the nouns, verbs and adjectives, often
I’d have never thought it possible, but the combination of extra heavy inner-tube, tire liner and providence let me make it through the months of January and February without a flat tire. I’m not jinxing it because karma already deposited her regards all over me last August, when I had a record number of flats
Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions Elizabeth poses two questions: What would you tell your younger self? It was initially tempting to inventory specific sources of pain and failure and undo those. However, the more I thought about it, the more I believe these were learning experiences that helped me later in life. For example, signing a
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Earlier in the week, we had some snow and sub-freezing temperatures. Most roads are actually fine, having either been sanded or rained on enough to melt anything that stuck. The little connector segment I use to get from West Lake Sammamish (near Sunset Elementary) to Eastgate in Bellevue was pretty bad this morning. I should