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- Progress Report, August 2023
Health & Habits Running 17 activities Distance: 87 mi Total Time: 15:35:31 Average Pace: 10:43 / mi Sleep Average: 7:04 / night 8 hr nights: 7 Writing Journal entries: 9; 7,009 words Blog posts: 7 Newsletters: 1 Media…
- San Francisco
I'm out in San Francisco for a few days. We've got typical SF weather — big change from the Florida summer suncoast. Got a few meetings to hit, but we've got a sailing trip set for Tuesday evening. Hope the weather st…
- Progress Report, November 2022
I'm late getting my November update posted. November (and still, in December) was a rollercoaster of a month. Just so much happening with professional and personal, I've hardly had a moment to do much at all — neither…
- Progress Report, October 2022
This time I'm including the previous month's to see month-over-month change, so progress (or lack of) is visible. Health & Habits Running 8 activities (6) Distance: 26.44 mi (17.33 miles) Total Time: 3:59:24 (2:32:34)…
- Progress Report, September 2022
Health Running 6 activities Distance: 17.33 miles Total Time: 2:32:34 Average Pace: 9:08 / mi Sleep Average: 7:21 / night 8 hr nights: 10 Writing Journal entries: 14 (7292 words) Blog posts: 19 Newsletters: 2 Media Re…
- Ian Inbound
As of this weekend, Hurricane Ian is in the Caribbean with a projected track that puts it making landfall this week on the western coast of Florida, not far from where we are. Looks like we'll be spending some time ge…
- Labor Day Sailing
We took dad's 42' Catalina out this weekend for a sail just on the outside of Clearwater Beach. 6 adults and 7 kids — adults enjoying the sailing, kids complaining to go to an island or go fishing. Soon we're going to…
- Progress Report, August 2022
Health Running 5 activities Distance: 14.55 miles Total Time: 2:06:54 Average Pace: 8:42 / mi Sleep Average: 7:22 / night 8 hr nights: 9 Media Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer ░░░░░░░░░░…
- Progress Report, July 2022
Kind of a wild month. I had a good week in the middle with consistent running, but otherwise underwhelming. I did do better with sleep this month. Health Running 9 activities Distance: 23.2 miles Total Time: 3:25:28 A…
- Progress Report: June 2022
Health Running 13 activities Distance: 28.67 miles Total Time: 6:28:54 Average Page: 9:03 / mi Sleep Average: 7:20 / night Media Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer ░░░░░░░░░░▓▓░░░░░░░░ 52-…
- Scans Update
Just this afternoon I finished up another round of scans at Mayo Clinic — my standard regimen of an hour-long MRI of the abdomen and a CT scan of the chest / lungs. Everything went routine and the worry level leading…
- Progress Report: May
Another month is in the books. I had a couple of trips this month, but did slightly better on running. Still pretty far away from the regular habit I used to have. Health Running 12 activities Distance: 26.7 miles Tot…
- 103 Bits of Advice from Kevin Kelly
A list of observations and life tips from Wired's Kevin Kelly. This entire list is self-highlighting. Fantastic stuff. Worth bookmarking and reading back through monthly. A few favorites: No one is as impressed with y…
- Progress Report: April
This month was a weak one on the health front. I think I only got 2 or 3 runs in, and my sleep has been garbage. Maybe I can do better in May. We have plans to join the gym nearby, so that should coerce at least worki…
- Office Bookshelves
I had this long, wide, high-on-the-wall shelf in my office that was there since we moved in. I had wanted to take it down and do something different, but just left it there while I considered some alternatives. I cons…
- Progress Report: October
I'm going take a stab at rebooting the monthly progress posts I used to do back when I was diligently tracking several goals through 2019 and 2020. Each month I'd look at how I was tracking against plan for fixed targ…
- Summer Trip
Last week we did a fun end-of-summer trip across Florida. We procrastinated figuring out a plan for doing something with the kids before school starts back this month. The kids have never been to any of the famous Cen…
- Elyse 6.0
Well a lot has happened since Elyse's 5.0 mark! That birthday happened in the middle of the pandemic while we were still (mostly) isolated, she started kindergarten remotely, switched to going in-person, then switched…
- Reboot
"Bring yourself back online..." — Bernard Lowe When I pumped the brakes on my daily writing routine last year, I had designs on some other interesting projects to spend time on that the daily demand wasn't giving me s…
- Another New House
The Summer of Lockdown last year really made us re-think what we want in a house. It hasn't quite been two years in our current house, and we like the neighborhood and still love St. Pete, but the life changes induced…
- 2020 Goals Review
I'm a few days late in getting around to reviewing how I did on the goals for 2020, but what's new there in a year full of challenges? It's an understatement to say that for anyone that set quantified personal goals a…
- Everett 3.0
Everett just hit the big 3.0 mark today. Whenever I've asked him how old he's turning over the last few weeks, the number has varied from 4 to 6. Clearly he wants to be up there with his sister. He's changed so much a…
- Morning Out
Today we did a morning out with the kids down at The Pier. The splash pad and playground they have down there are really top-notch, even though the playground is still mostly a bit out of range for Everett to do on hi…
- Improving Sleep
The last couple of weeks I've been working on improving my sleep. My running workouts have felt terrible lately, which I think is a combination of dehydration and fatigue, primarily from compounding lack of quality sl…
- Res Extensa
I've finally joined the newsletter club! Today I sent out the first issue of a new project, a bi-weekly email newsletter called Res Extensa. My intent right now is for the newsletter to be a less-frequent companion to…
- Labor Day Update
It's been a minute since I put up an update on the kids. I thought Labor Day would be a good marker to put down a quick entry on what we've been doing. Recently we started going to the neighborhood park again, which w…
- Starting Kindergarten
Today was Elyse's first day of kindergarten. Not the way we imagined her starting her elementary school life, but here we are. Our school has done their best to try to accommodate the return, but I remain extremely sk…
- Moving to Six Months
The last time I wrote an update here on my health situation was over a year ago now. Time for a quick one. Since I was officially declared "NED" (no evidence of disease) back in the beginning of 2018, I've been on a r…
- Elyse 5.0
Today is Elyse's big 5.0! It's hard during quarantine times to figure out a fun thing to do. All of your typical birthday venues are either closed or made "unfun" with rules and headcount quotas. Plus the outdoor acti…
- Vacation Photos
We just wrapped a week on the beach. 10 adults, 10 kids, 3 houses. A few highlights:
- Paddleboard
Colette bought an inflatable stand-up paddleboard to use on our beach vacation this week. Neither of us had ever tried one before, but you see them all over the place along the St. Pete shoreline. As an observer, it c…
- Vacation
Next week us and the local family will be at Anna Maria Island for what is largely a "staycation" — a week at a beach house about 45 minutes from home. We'll see how things work with trying to stay semi-quarantined wh…
- Chalkboard Complete
I finished painting and assembling the chalkboard and got it hung up along the patio. We've already used it for a couple of hours! Looks great and was a pretty simple (and cheap) addition to the backyard.
- Father's Day
I had a great, basic Father's Day here at the house. Colette made breakfast and the kids made me some cards: I got the chalkboard finished up and ready to hang tomorrow. We spent most of the day out in the backyard wi…
- Outdoor Chalkboard
Colette had this idea to build an outdoor chalkboard for the kids to use, hung on the fence. I went yesterday and bought some materials to put one together. I also found out in drawing up the plan that chalkboard pain…
- Blogroll
Over the years with my RSS subscriptions I've gradually unsubscribed from a lot of "institutional" or corporate blogs and feeds in favor of individuals I've found with interesting websites and things to say. In the ea…
- Florida Beaches, 3 Months Post Lockdown
We're almost to the three-month mark since the lockdown started here in Pinellas. Pretty quickly all of the public beaches were closed, right in the midst of Spring Break season. For a county with so many of its econo…
- The About Page
After stewing around with it for a month, I finally put up an "About" page for this site. I pulled out a few of favorite posts there, also. Check it out!
- Current Reads
I recently added to my Library section to include the books I'm currently reading. At the top of the page now I'll be including books in the rotation. You'll notice that I'm always reading multiple things at once. Usu…
- Family Life in Quarantine
March 12th was the last time I was at the office. We went full remote starting the next day. The 13th was Elyse's last day in person at her school. Spring break was slated for the following week anyway, but she starte…
- Under Quarantine
It's a weird time right now across the globe. People all over are quarantined, either because of government mandate or self-isolation from others to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus. I don't think the world…
- First Race of the Year
I just committed to my first race of the year, a 10K in the St. Pete Distance Classic. Sort of a seat-of-the-pants commitment, but should be able to do a competitive personal time (maybe a PR if I feel good enough). I…
- 2020 Goals
Last year was my first serious attempt at setting goals at the outset with structure and plan to hold myself accountable to each one throughout the course of the year. "Goal orientation" is not my native approach to m…
- 2020
We celebrated the new year last night with the family during our trip together, a fairly low-key affair. Hard to believe now that we've reached a year number that sounds like science fiction: 2020. I just got back tod…
- 2019 Final Thoughts
Since I already wrote up my overview of 2019 a couple weeks ago, here are some final notes to close out the year. I continued the practice of posting here every day this year. I've been enjoying it as a means to keep…
- Goal Summary: Running Stats
Continuing my summaries from a couple weeks ago, this post covers some statistics on running throughout 2019. I track all of my runs with a Garmin fenix 5 watch synced to Strava, but also have been logging each one to…
- Family Vacation
Today starts the annual family vacation, this year over in the Disney area south of Orlando. To a Floridian the destination isn't terribly exciting, but we wanted to keep it simple this year. 3 of the cousins are 6 mo…
- Goal Summary: Wrapping Up 2019
For the last couple weeks of the year I'm going to post a few wrap-ups to summarize how I did on hitting personal goals from the beginning of the year. At the beginning I laid out a number of attainable but aggressive…
- Giving Thanks in 2019
We had our two family Thanksgivings today, which makes for a hectic but enjoyable day with most of the families. The kids can really go hard on days like this — no idea how they last so long. Here’s the shortlist of g…
- Family Update
It’s been busy around our house the last couple of days. Hung up some Christmas lights: We have some chickens for the week while our friends (their owners) are out of town: Saw Frozen II and had dinner with some frien…