Here's a link to the original article in the Chattanoogan, which also includes a frighteningly ill-informed response by a fellow named Bruce Caldwell of Signal Mountain. My response to that response appears below. I went ahead and emailed it to...
highs:i finally got back outside! the dr gave me some antibiotics on thurs and i was feeling a million times better by saturday. i got a short trail run in at lookout (45 min - didn't want to push it...
Even Bill Hobbs wouldn't argue with this one, right? In a bit about government openness and transparency, New York senator Hillary Clinton told a crowd of supporters in Manchester that "maybe we ought to have teams of government bloggers"...
Well, today was the first official day of my quest for health transformation and I'm excited to be off and running (err, I should say walking for now...). There's so much that has lead up to this first posting that's...
"There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilized and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons. No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience...
Fuller is enjoying all kinds of games these days. And he doesn't discriminate, he likes board games as much as the electronic ones. He might actually prefer the board games since it guarantees interaction with Mommy or Daddy. We were...
i have seriously neglected this blog concept yet again. i dont mean to. each time that i sit to write i just end up scrolling through the running list of blogs that i read and lose track of time. then,...
I have taken some steps towards my resolutions that I want to share with you all and at the same time further flesh out my plans.1. Loose the 10 pounds that I found during the campaign...before St Patrick's Day:I turned...
** If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights. ** A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt. ** Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you...
I’ve been thinking over the last few days … there are several different things I write about on this blog.
Personal stuff, including how my business is doing, photography, etc.
Politics, economics, and other things from a libertarian perspective.
Geeky stuff that’s related...
Amy and I have set our wedding date. We will be staying at Butterfly Hollow from June 13-15 2008. The ceremony will be on June 14. After that weekend, we’ll most likely be heading to Las Vegas with my family...
I finally got around to figuring out how to unload many of the pictures on my new iPhone. The Pushr application does exactly what I want. It could use some extra features, but it mass uploads to Flickr and that’s...
Ich vermisse dich schon sehr und werde dich auch immer in meinen Gedanken haben. Schaue doch auch immer wieder mal vom Himmel herab und zwinkere mir zu....
The other day I asked my husband if he had a list of things he wanted to do in his life. He said no. But then he said that he just didn't have them written down. One of the things...
I will warn you now, I'm feeling a tad melancholy. The other day we took down the Christmas tree. Juden had fallen in love with the tree. The night we put it up he was ecstatic and laid on his...
Bob’s sister Lori and her husband Joe are adopting their first baby in February. We are SO incredibly excited for little Hannah to join our family. Joe and Lori are committed and serious Steelers fans so we couldn’t resist making...
I used to love American Gladiators, and I was pleased to hear that it was coming back. I watched it last night and it was awesome. Cheesy and corny, but awesome nonetheless. I hope it lasts a long time. It will...
Truth be told, I'm not particularly fond of reading most hiker journals. You know the type I'm referring to. "I woke up, cooked breakfast, started hiking at 8 AM, saw a bear at 11 AM, my feet hurt,...
It’s my first day back in DC after a wonderful fortnight in Chattanooga. Honestly, it gets harder to leave Tennessee each time I go back. The cost of living is cheaper, people are nicer and the pace is slower. Not...
I have officially started training for my Ironman with sore legs and a pounding heart every morning. I think this Nike + iPod thing is going to be my best and worst training partner as this morning I was...
Jon Krakauer once wrote, "In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly... For some, the province of the extreme...
Giving birth changes you in ways expected and in ways never imagined.
Cliches from your own childhood--words you swore to yourself you'd never say--echo for a season in the hollows of memory, eventually finding voice as they pass through your...
Those of you who have heard me rant about the cat situation with our neighbors, laugh if you will. I have always been a cat lover, I just love the cats who love me back and don't poop all over...
Gus has been working through his first cold for the last few days, but it hasn't stopped him from playing with some of his new toys (and other assorted items)!...
So I brought my compendium of the Narnia Chronicles home from school today. Good thing, because I have run out of stuff I want to read. That book is big enough to choke a mule. Awkward for...
I haven’t blogged in a while because: I’ve been too busy Just really didn’t feel like taking the time to write anything Family matters A lot has happened in December and still happening but slowly coming to a close. My sister passed away...
Mars on 1/6/08
Here’s tonight’s Mars photo - I plan on restacking it sometime when I’ve got more time. That’s when a lot more detail came out in the images I processed from the images I captured on the 3rd. These...
Here's another missive from the AFA that turned up in my email this past week (the last one wasn't quite as bad). Since it's rather alarming in its appearance and absolutely disgusting in its rhetoric, I'm going to put it...
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