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Susan and I have been doing a workout together. Yeah, it’s one of those late-night infomercial workouts that shows “amazing results” from “real people just like you.” We’ve done video workouts before; Both did “30-Day Shred” and got good results. She did “Slim in Six” and did well. I tried “P90X” for all of a [...]

When I hear of married people not getting along with their in-laws, it makes me appreciate how lucky I am to have had wonderful ones, whose company I have enjoyed, and whom I’ve loved and respected. Today marks the first anniversary of the passing of my wonderful mother-in-law, Emiko Gumescheimer, the best anyone could have [...]

One year ago today, my father passed away. I called my mom today and we both couldn’t believe that it has only been that long. This past year has just flown by. I am who I am largely because of my dad. He was a man who worked hard to provide for his family, he [...]

After my ride this morning I was taking a cool down lap around the neighborhood and ran across this car parked on the street. Donutted I don’t think I have ever seen a car victimized in this manner before, the unfortunate recipient of the triple threat of donuts, plastic wrap, and chocolate sandwich cookies. The [...]

The Camry is gone, but it is the hands of some nice upstate New York transplants from Saratoga Springs. I really didn’t think I’d be selling it for a few more weeks, and I only had signs in the windows for one day. Smudge and I went to the dog park yesterday morning and we [...]

On Saturday Susan ran her first marathon and did an amazing job, finishing in 4 hours, 20 minutes and 41 seconds. She has been training for this event for months, and has been steadily working her mileage up to as much as 20 miles. This is the first time she has ever done 26.2 miles. [...]

A couple days ago I noticed a few tunnels in our yard and realized we had moles. They had dug several tunnels along one side of the house in the backyard, and a few mounds attached to about a twelve-foot long tunnel coming off the patio. I think the excavations are much more extensive than [...]