Josie (my girlfriend) want to complete the San Diego half marathon Triple Crown. The races are the Carlsbad Half Marathon, the La Jolla Half Marathon and the America’s Finest City Half Marathon. After that, she wants to run the full Carlsbad Marathon. So training is tough. We were running...
In 1980, I heard those words that will live in infamy: “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” It was an amazing moment. Because of the disaster of Vietnam, the corruption of Watergate, the Iranian hostage crisis, the gas shortage and the brutality of disco; the United States needed something to...
So it has been nine days since I quit chewing tobacco and I still have minor cravings. Not even a tenth as bad as they were but I am feeling that the best thing I can do is use some sort of substitute to satisfy the oral fixation (folks,...
This has probably been the longest 72 hours of my life. At least it is the longest I have had since the last time I tried this. I quit chewing tobacco. This time, I am pretty sure it is going to be permanent. I have needed to do it...
Sometimes it sucks to have children and an over-romanticized girlfriend around. Especially when it comes to things like birthdays, anniversaries and Valentine’s Day. Oh, I forgot one other: when trying to pick a movie. So guess what we saw this weekend (hopefully you ignored the title)? Yep, “Beauty...
My girlfriend, Josie, came back to her office after work. Her co-workers were discussing a rather interesting topic. They asked Josie that if I had gained a lot of weight for no real reason except I was eating too much and I had no desire to work it off...
I was on Twitter when I found this article on BleacherReport.com. And it spurred my interest. Before reading my opinions, here is the article: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2700218-nfl1000-is-colin-kaepernick-still-starting-quarterback-material-in-the-nfl?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial If you are not interested in reading this rather long article, I will give you a quick synopsis. Doug Farrar, the author of the...
Being in Los Angeles to visit my grandson gave me the opportunity to show Josie parts that she had never seen before. I had the whole thing planned out. We would go to Palisades Park for a short run. The views are really nice and the running paths are...
I have not seen my new grandchild in a month so I decided to go to Los Angeles for a visit. I was going to go alone but Josie had sad she really wanted to go. That made me happy. The only issue was that she worked on Saturday....
It was my birthday on Monday. I took the day off but did not have anything specific planned. Well, I was going to hang out with Josie, but, as you know, we have had some issues, so I really was not sure if she was going to hang out...