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As of this moment, I am in the Toronto, Ontario area in Canada at a cousin’s place and plopped in front of a 60″ TV.

The last three CNN headlines:

• John McCain was in Stockton, CA (where I grew up) rejecting some conservative pastor’s comments.
• A huge tornado touched down in Windsor, CO prompting a state of emergency. Man, that is only 15-20 miles southeast of where I live in Fort Collins! Hope the damage in Windsor wasn’t too bad and that not many people were hurt (I heard at least one person died. :( )
• Wildfires in the Santa Cruz mountains, where I used to spend a lot of time many years ago. Hope my friends living up there are okay.

Funny how no matter how far from home I go, home always seems to come back to me.

I’ve lived in Fort Collins now for 2.5 years so this will be my third spring here. This also means that I’ve survived a third winter in Northern CO, and am happy to declare that they are on the whole quite nice — if a little unpredictable.

To summarize the last three winters: Continue reading »

Due to the Boston Marathon being a week after, I didn’t run in the Horsetooth Half Marathon this year. But plenty of friends did! Indeed, it seemed like I saw just about every one of my running friends at this event, either running or cheering.

Here are some photos. Continue reading »

So for as long as I can remember (2-4 weeks), I’ve been receiving phone calls daily from 888-327-8454. Sometimes they wake me up and get me out of bed. When I answer the phone, no one answers. The times I don’t pick up a phone, an automated voicemail is left. All those voicemails are from the same robot saying, “You need to update your Earthlink account. Please call 888-327-8454.”

There’s one problem with this. I don’t have an Earthlink account. I never did and I certainly never will in the future. And if I have my way, this post will encourage no one else to either! :) Continue reading »

“The next time it snows,” I told a friend a few weeks ago after the first snow of the season, “I am going to have to take advantage of it.”

I made good on that promise on the other day. On Monday night, we got about four or five inches of some of the fluffiest powder I have ever seen, so during Tuesday afternoon, I went out of the garage on my K2 Shuskan randonnée (alpine touring) skis. Literally. The first downhill slope was the driveway! Continue reading »