after xrays, bone scans and mri's, the dr has given me the thumbs up to start running again! yeah! i started with a 30 min run, then a 45, and joyfully joined the wednesday night trail running crew for a...
Ten 6th grade boys are kings of their worlds tonight...and for this moment in time, they revel in the glory of an underdog's victory. Its taste is more sweet than the celebratory "banquet" that followed, a spontaneous party fit for...
Tebow and I seem to have taken a step back in the feeding arena, which means feeding time takes longer and then getting him to sleep takes longer, and it just becomes this Tebow all the time cycle that keeps...
I was dreading this week’s weigh in, mainly because, at the last weigh in, I had gained a little over a pound. So, when she said good job, I was tres excited. This week was about tracking and writing everything...
Even if it was a lie told in response to the State of the Union speech.
Guess I am naive to have thought Jindahl would be honest or at least not tell a brazen lie to Americans in his response...
this past wednesday evening i had the pleasure of hosting the monthly book club dinner&discuss. it seems to me that i had stopped entertaining in the last years of being in my old apartment and i didn't know it, but...
Finally. Thank God. I have been waiting for this day for a long, long time. Obama addressed the nation today from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Text of speech is here.
A couple of years ago, a friend...
I really don’t think that the right of free speech should belong to the government, or for that matter, any other “institution”. It belongs to people.
Worse yet to give that right to the government in such a way as to...
Curtis Adams discussed local media and the economy at the Civitan Club, today:
Commissioner Adams, who worked for 40 years in management at the Chattanooga News-Free Press, said a number of print newspapers are failing.
He said the Internet and the economy...
Chattarati’s Cash Maps allow you to follow a local candidate’s political contributions, but have you ever wondered where that money goes once it enters his/her campaign coffers? No, we’re not launching a new application just yet, but we were curious...
Modeling is hard work:
Note: I’m not trying to make light of the profession, as anyone who has ever really worked it knows that it really is hard work. It looks so easy and there are many misconceptions, but like anything...
The Chattanooga City Council voted unanimously to adopt the Green Committee’s Climate Action Plan (CAP)—a research-based assessment of Chattanooga’s carbon footprint and 47 recommendations for reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions, this week. Recommendations are based on 17 objectives,...
It's a rainy Friday after a restless night. Ella's fever has broken but Naya's is still going strong. It's looking like we're not going anywhere so the morning called for a block city that covered the whole floor and lots...
Bloggers at Chattarati say they spent long hours entering contribution information from publicly available disclosure documents into a database that then displays the contributors and amounts on interactive maps. The first campaign finance disclosures in the current election cycle were due...
This week’s creature is a new one for me. I saw this out at Audubon Acres last weekend and knew it was some kind of a nuthatch, but didn’t find out until I got home to my Sibley Guide that...
A comment made by a co-worker over 20 years ago crawled under my skin and took up permanent residence: "I had to learn how to enjoy my own company."My friend had always assumed he'd leave college with plans to marry...
I got home yesterday and my Kindle was in the mailbox. I was so happy. My parents and my wife and my kids all threw in a little and got me one for my 51st birthday. It just took the thing...
The above images show what WTCI is dealing with trying to deliver programs from PBS to the home viewer. PBS programs currently are fed as 16x9, 4x3 and letterboxed. Home viewers may have an older 4x3 display or a newer...
Tuesday evening, we got our hands on the new financial disclosure forms for each of the mayoral candidates and most of the city council candidates. After a quick stop at The Terminal, we handcuffed ourselves to our MacBooks and entered...
On Sunday morning we had planned to go to Reutlingen to visit Matze, Jutta and Oscar, but the road conditions were crappy.So we put Amy to work instead :-)We had lunch in the Alte Muehle in Waldbeuren with my...
February 17th has come and gone, thankfully without many problems for the third of public stations that chose to drop their analog signals as planned. The sunset of PBS standard definition National Program Service (NPS) feeds was also completed on schedule...
The Hilltop Neighborhood Association hosted a large crowd of Brainerd residents Thursday night at the Brainerd Baptist Annex on Austin St. City officials, including Mayor Ron Littlefield, 6th District City Council member Carol Berz, and Police Chief Freeman Cooper, spoke...
Voting is important, and you should go to the polls with the best possible information about the candidates. I’ve done all the research so you don’t have to. Here are my picks. Vote with confidence.
CHATTANOOGA CITY MAYOR:
My pick: Ron Littlefield
After...
Here’s the final installment of my food porn from Turkey. Represented below is a sampling of a whole bunch of meals over the course of our trip — some my food and some for other people. The thing I like...
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