Boulder to London

Women’s group organizing Kenyan sex strike

I guess if that’s what it takes to get things done…

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I’m about to head off to my second of a 2-weekend long course on sailing.  As usual, I did minimal research before signing up and later realised that I should have done a shore based course prior to the practical course to cover a few things that will eventually be important (navigation, tidal calculations, etc).  [...]

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I made it back to London this morning and it feels like being home.  Over the past 7 days, I’ve visited the place I grew up (Spokane), the place I lived for the longest consecutive period since leaving for college (Ft. Collins), and the town I lived in right before moving abroad (Boulder).  Of all [...]

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I usually spend a little time on CNN.com every day and over the past few weeks or months, they have been running some real-life accounts of how people are dealing with the recession and unemployment.  Some of them are very good and tell stories about people that are now spending more time with their families, [...]

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One of the things that I’ve come to miss living over here is college sports, specifically the big events such as the Bowl Games and March Madness.  It’s not that I couldn’t see them if I really wanted to, but they’re on very late/early, the quality of broadcast isn’t great, and there is not the [...]

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I’m sure there is a ton of symbolism in this one, but have no idea what it all means…
I had a dream the other night that I was hanging out at the lake.  I’m pretty sure it was Lake Roosevelt, a place I’ve spent significant time.  In any case, I was hanging out in the [...]

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When we woke up yesterday, the weather was abosolutely gorgeous.  It was one of those sunny, crisp days with not a cloud in the sky.  We drank our coffee, had some breakfast and then headed out for a run.  The run was longer than we’ve done in a long time (8 miles), but the pace [...]

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Melisse and I are done with Clapham.  The place is nice, the train access is good, the parks are beautiful, but the fact that we don’t have a kid hanging off each arm prevents us from really fitting into the neighborhood scene.  Unfortunately we still have about 4 or 5 months left on the lease [...]

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For all of you other bloggers out there, I updated to wordpress 2.7.1 last weekend and am very happy with it. The interface is quite a bit cleaner and there are some cool features for posting and editing quickly.
You may also notice a new page on my blog for books. I shamelessly stole [...]

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