Finding a way to like exercise
I hate exercising. Not all exercise, mind you. I like touch football and ultimate Frisbee. I like softball and volleyball and pick-up basketball. But plain good old aerobic exercise for the sake of my heart, etc., I just don’t care for.
However, I do it anyway (though not as much as I should). I always feel [...]
Why it’s okay to be at the WSOP
People often get envious that I’m spending two weeks in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker. That’s because they’ve never spent two weeks in Las Vegas during July. I am away from home and Lisa and that is no fun at all.
Sure, I get to play poker, but hell, I could play as [...]
Panthertown Valley
Lisa and I hiked around the Panthertown Valley near Lake Toxaway today. In fact, this is right in the shadow of Cold Mountain, made famous by the (incredibly good and powerful) book by Charles Frazier. Lisa was kind enough to find us a place that had some amount of hiking and some righteous fishing – [...]
Strawberry ten
This is the tenth year that Lisa and I attended the Strawberry Music Festival. The most notable thing was that the youngsters in and around the camp are growing up – kids who were simply gleams in their parents’ eyes when we first started attending.
Now they’re mobile, independent, and forming their own bonds across camp [...]
Birds on the front porch
Recently, Lisa moved Vern (the fern) out to the front porch to get some unadulterated sunlight and fresh air.
As happened last year, a pair of birds decided to nest in the fern. Unlike last year, they were successful at it. I grabbed these literally as I was waiting for the taxi to the airport for [...]