So many people who I follow on twitter seem to be constantly on message. What I mean by that is that they constantly post about a singular subject. It may be IP Networking. It may be cycling. It may be the environment. They are on message. They have a lot of followers. If you’ve been reading this blog [...]
I woke around 5:30 yesterday morning with a bad feeling. It was in my gut and accompanied by some wicked heartburn. And I felt sore in my back. This happens on occasion, both the heartburn and the stiffness in the back, so I didn’t really think much of it, but tried to go back to [...]
Dad would be celebrating today. He was horrified to see his brethren die on that tragic day when the towers collapsed. We talked in the days after the events of 9/11 about the job that the men of FDNY were doing. I could hear the pain in his voice. As a nation, we rallied around [...]
“This may not have been the best plan.” The thought first occurred to me as I rounded the corner on the turn from the Naval Academy to MD450 and slipped my peddles twice as I was trying to clip in. (Mental note: Ditch these Look peddles in favor of a pair of speedplays.) I hadn’t been on [...]
I spent a few hours with pen and paper last night, scrawling the same basic lines over and over down on the sheets of the moleskine. I’ve got something to say, and it has something to do with my experience of high school, but it won’t come out. A few versions of the poem were [...]