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Super Sprint Tri
OK, let me start at the beginning. Â Sine the end of last March I’ve been struggling to get back in shape. Â Eileen decided I needed a carrot and a sprint triathlon would be just the thing… When we found the Race On The Base – Triathlon we signed up. It was a reverse triathlon: 5K,
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Attack of the creeping crud, and reflections on training
I’ve been battling some weird illness for the past week or so and it has been getting in the way of my training for the Paris Marathon, which is now only about six weeks away. I thought I had come up with my own weird disease until I started talking to folks and realized it’s
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The week that was
It’s been a solid week on the road for Chuck and me. We’ve been traveling since last Sunday, and got home late yesterday. We spent five days in Yuba City where Chuck was doing some training, then headed down to visit friends in Vacaville, then yesterday we went to San Francisco to check out MacWorld
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Chuckstrong!
It’s been a nerve wracking week here at Chez O’Shea. This week marked nine months since the end of Chuck’s chemo treatments, and six months since his last PET scan. Monday they did a new PET scan and today we got the results. It was all good news. Mister Fatty Necrosis, of whom I wrote
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Enough with the catalogs!
If you’re like me, you get inundated with junk catalogs on an almost daily basis. A lot of the time they’re catalogs from companies from whom I’ve never ordered anything. Argh! What to do? Try Catalog Choice! It’s a little tedious at first as you have to enter the info for the catalogs you want
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The wait is over. The iPad has landed.
I viewed/read the Gizmodo liveblog of the Apple event this morning announcing the (ta-da!) iPad. Now that the wait is over (well, for the announcement, at least – you’ll have to wait 60 days for the device to start shipping), it’s oddly, well, if not disappointing then not quite as magical as Steve Jobs claimed,
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