How A Healthy Man Ended Up In The Hospital — My Mistakes:
I hike and do martial arts training regularly, and consider myself in reasonably good shape. However, on Monday I started an exercise program with a local Crossfit affiliate, Team Crossfit.
This was an intense workout, but I’ve done intense (worse) workouts in the past, with [...]
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Posted 16 December 2009
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I’m having a … crisis of confidence isn’t the right word, but I’m not sure what is. Let me set the stage. I work at a spectacular place, and have a job I care deeply about.
The success of our company depends on my performance. If I do my job poorly, our company could go broke, [...]
I had a conversation with a friend on Sunday that really stuck with me — made it difficult to sleep that night. She was talking about her father, a retired cop, who carries a gun with him everywhere. It was a sad story, for a lot of reasons, but it’s not my story, and I [...]
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Posted 23 April 2008
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The press release will be hitting the wires shortly, (It’s only up at the Senior Research Alliance now.) but Dakim just got a $10.6 million shot on the arm. Many of you know I’ve been stressed lately but didn’t know why; this is why. {grin}
We’re now going to be able to focus on growth and [...]
I just feel the need to whine for a moment — please indulge me. (Or skip to the next post.)
My house flooded on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I’ve already cleaned up twice; there’s mud on my floor right now, on Monday morning. In addition, we’re late on a big project at the office. I worked [...]
My mountain cabin / hippie shack is built into the side of Topanga Canyon. It’s TOTALLY not-up-to-code. Tonight, in the middle of the biggest rainstorm of the year, water started pouring from the WALL on the bottom floor that’s built into the hill. It washed about a pound of silt onto my floor, and got [...]
Although I’m not at all sure about the “BioWiki” name. And “AutoBioWiki” is even worse. But in the fine tradition of Anne Lamott’s “shitty first draft,” here’s
http://biowiki.sudosu.net
(I’m keeping the shitty first draft to myself, at least for now.)
Umm. I don’t recognize myself in there at all. No, not at all. Umm, I think the phone’s ringing.
I just got the call for voluntary evacuation, and I am heeding the call.
I have time (can’t see flames; they haven’t crested any hills around me) so I’m packing up essentials and heading to my parent’s house. With cats, which should go over wonderfully with the parents.
I’m turning off the computers now, and taking some [...]
Almost exactly a year ago, towards the beginning of October, 2006, I started losing weight.
I lost the first 10 or 15 pounds very quickly, in a month, without really trying. I had a variety of medical problems, and it’s amazing how quickly not being able to keep anything down (and other assorted digestive issues I [...]