Lucid Dreams.
Many of us have dreams. Some of us share them. Very few of us act upon them. Allie Ostrander, a high school freshman in Alaska, had the wherewithal to act …
Weakend Warrior
I’m not exactly sure what I was thinking. Down in San Diego, pondering the possibilities of a job as Webmaster for a school district up in Alaska, something was grievously …
Run-on Sentences…
This might be inconceivable to many, but I’ve actually more or less kept up with my attempts at running. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been trying to …
Hammer, man, et al.
“Hey Mike, what have you been up to of late?” “Oh, not much, just vacationing overseas, racing extreme offroad triathlons, running, and helping put together the latest District Annual Report.” …
Raise Dairy Salts
I could see my nearest competitors in front of me. The ones behind, I couldn’t see, but I could sense them. If I slipped up at all, they would seek …
New Beginnings
Like sand in an hourglass… …if you break it, it gets EVERYWHERE. So, too, are the days of our lives. As you might notice, I’m having a bit of a …
A loop to loop the Loop.
A loop is a quasigroup with an identity element e such that: x * e = x = e * x for all x in Q. It follows that the …
Tri, tri again.
What an eventful weekend. True to its etymological roots, my weekend was full of events. The end of the week began in Seward, where the weather was behaving in a …
Dawn Breaks over Brickhead.
Training update: One month in. My class has been doing extremely well, even if its main features are to expose exactly what I need to work on most. “Everything” comes …
Swim like a Brick
Tired of being bored? Thinking of trying something new? Want to suffer like you’ve never suffered before? Try a Brick Workout. Coach Angie appears to subscribe to the Nietzsche School …