Monthly Archive: January 2010

Jan
31

January Recap / February Look ahead

Macallan

As you can tell from the picture, I write this post while sipping a tasty glass of 15-year old scotch. This particular single malt was given to me as a gift on my 30th birthday from a certain anonymous ex, and the month seems to end properly in conjunction with this particular tipple. As January …

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Jan
18

Marathon Training Fail

Today’s weather couldn’t have been any more perfect: 62 & breezy, and just overcast enough so the sun doesn’t bother you. Naturally, I wanted to take the opportunity to continue getting ready for March’s half-marathon. Actually that’s a bold-faced lie. I wanted the opportunity to BEGIN getting ready for March’s half-marathon, because the only thing I’ve done …

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Jan
08

The Virtuous Life

One of the books that Santa got me for Christmas this year was a partial autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. For those who don’t know much about him other than the Declaration of Independence and the hundred dollar bill, I’d recommendstarting with Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin. One of the interesting stories that I did not know about Frankin …

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Jan
02

2009: Year in Review

Now that 2010 is finally here, it’s time to take a look back at a the year that was 2009. GOALS As regular readers know, I’m a notorious goal-setter. In 2009, my main goals for the year were the completion of my 30 before 30 lists.  Included on the list was the stretch goal to read …

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