Category: another day in the life
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How we’ve spent our week
We had a great weekend biking around the Solvang area. Saturday was the Solvang Prelude where we rode 50 miles, then on Sunday we did a recreational 25-miler from Solvang to Babcock Winery (one of our favorites) and back (25 miles). In all the time we’ve been going up to the Santa Ynez area, this…
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A working Halloween and a pause to give thanks
We spent Halloween weekend in Pasadena, at the California Library Association’s annual conference. All of our time was spent in an exhibit booth, so I have no real idea how the conference went, but our booth area seemed pretty popular. The booth’s theme was “Libraries, Learning and Zombies” so we had to dress up, of…
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Another year older and deeper in, well, something…
So my 52nd birthday has come and gone. It was a movable feast of multiple celebrations over a few days and since we were on the road for several days before and after the big day, so I haven’t had much chance to update the blog (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it). After…
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My knight in shining armor!
Today marked a really great day in our post-cancer world. Six months after finishing his last chemo treatment, Chuck ran the Healdsburg Half Marathon in 2:48, an awesome time by any measure, but really amazing compared to the last half he survived (you can’t really call it running) last May. Our friends Valeria and Maureen…
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Oh, my aching sit bones!
Now that the Las Vegas Triathlon is out of the way, we’ve fixed our focus on the next two races: a half marathon next weekend in Healdsburg, and a 50 mile bike ride in Solvang in November. So yesterday we ran 9 1/2 miles and today we hammered out a 40 mile bike ride. Then…
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