Monthly Archives: November 2008

CCCX #5

Oh my. It was hard, it was fast, it was full of suffering. I’d been doing a fairly good job of keeping my fabulously scary ‘cross suffer face hidden far away until the end of today’s race. Then it came screaming back in full force on the final sprint. But we’ll save that bit for...

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Sunset Shooting

The crickets are chirping in the greater blogosphere and I needed a spreadsheet break, so I’m blogging for no reason other than to do something other than work on my thesis. Plus I want to see if I can insert a video into the new bloggy.
[flickr video=3040556270]
Last night I went to the beach down the...

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Double Race Reportage

Wow what a weekend. Between the two of us it went something like this:
Saturday:
Terry plays soccer game in Monterey (1-0 win); Beth goes to the Ride the World Cup Fundraiser at Hellyer (just watching and eating yummy goodies); Terry coaches U-12 soccer game in Sunnyvale (tied 2-2); Beth picks up Terry in Sunnyvale and then...

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Rest Week

This week is a training rest week. I tend to stretch the definition of “rest” week and sometimes get a little lazy. But that also keeps me from taking myself to seriously…and often it takes a whole week of not being serious to have an impact. So this morning I dropped Terry off at school...

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Weekend Fun

I really need to get someone to help me come up with better blog titles.
Anyways, busy weekend. First with Terry’s details…he’s coaching a little U-12 boys soccer team this fall. They struggled at the beginning of the season a bit but yesterday they beat the first place team in the league! Yippie! And then today...

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Polaroiding

A few weeks ago Terry downloaded this fun little plug-in called Poladroid. All you have to do is drag and drop a photo onto the Polaroid camera icon and the process starts, just like an old school Polaroid. First an image pops up with a brown square on it. Then slowly over the next few...

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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

So this culinary creation was my idea.  Well, almost. I read about the idea on the web and then actually put it into practice.  Get your self a rotisserie chicken and boil the bones with garlic and veggies for a couple of hours.  I did it in a spaghetti pot because it made separating the...

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