Today I rode Pedal Pittsburgh's city tour. My goal was to ride the 100km (62mi) route for the first time ever. My second goal was to finish in time to hang out and get some beer at the finish line festival. My tertiary goal was to fail competently, with a smart bail plan. I succeeded at one of these ( Read more... )

This past weekend xuth and I drove out to Philly for soong's wedding. This is great, except that the only road that goes from Pittsburgh to Philly and takes less than 5 hours is also one of the most expensive long toll roads in the nation, costing a whopping $32.90 in cash to travel this subsection one way. There's a significant (~30%) savings using E- ( Read more... )

I have SO many things to write. Why is it so hard to start?

I will start 2016 by doing some 2015 recapping.

This is Places I Slept in 2015 except I prefer to put a bit of explanation into each one so I don't confuse myself later.

I started the year in Pittsburgh, PA, which is really my favorite place to sleep of anywhere. In January, I drove ( Read more... )

After posting about RLS last week, I got some suggestions and also did more reading about how to treat it. I decided to go for the carpet bomb approach and added to my daily diet: a banana yogurt smoothie with protein+vitamin powder, handful of almonds, antacid, less alcohol, and more leg exercise. I was going to do this for a week, but within ( Read more... )

I just had two weeks (well, 13 days) away, in two vacations back to back. Now I'm back, and I'm really glad to be back ( Read more... )

Well that was the most interesting blood draw visit I've ever had. Summary: I'm fine. No bloody details included here ( Read more... )

What a week. Tuesday we drove all day to return home from Arisia (which I still intend to post about), the rest of the week was prep for the weekend (while still keeping to usual social/active things), and the weekend was more party prep and parties. Today is the first day of real downtime in a long time and it's wonderful. I'm also getting a ( Read more... )

What a difference a bit of time makes ( Read more... )

The problem I have with summer is that there is always too many fun things going on and any given day I have to miss large numbers of them. Seriously, on any given day I have two, three, or more things going on that I could go to or do or throw or spend time on, but I only have so many hours, and some of them have to be spent on me or I go crazy ( Read more... )

The first big sign I had that something was wrong came Tuesday morning, when I got out of bed and stepped down and there was significant pain in my right foot. Some gentle poking revealed tender spots on top, but also places that were fine, and with a little care and practice, I was walking almost without noticing it. I mentioned it to my ( Read more... )