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Happy Truck Day!

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Another Half Marathon

On a gorgeous fall morning today, I ran my third half marathon in the last 372 days. This one was the toughest one, because my training had suffered over the last month from my being under the weather a bit … Continue reading

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Onwards

What’s next after the Hyannis Half? My body turns to dough if I don’t exercise and indeed exercise hard. In fact, just taking it easy for the last week after the half-marathon made me feel all sluggish and yucky. I … Continue reading

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2:05:38

I have a mission for the rest of this year now. Today, I broke my half-marathon personal best (set last October) by running the 13.1 miles in 2 hours 5 minutes 38 seconds. I managed this even though I struggled … Continue reading

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Sawyer HILL Eco-Village

Our “housing project” a.k.a. Mosaic Commons Cohousing a.k.a. Sawyer Hill Eco-Village is proceeding apace. We just secured a full construction loan for actually building the community. Our general contractor, JJ Welch, has actually already been working full steam ahead for … Continue reading

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Border Wars

Time for some serious border disputes. Where exactly is the border of Red Sox Nation vis-a-vis Yankee Country? The New York Times investigated and came up with this map: Note in particular the division of Connecticut and the small Red … Continue reading

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Fallen Hero

Now that it has been leaked to the New York Times that Floyd Landis’ urine sample after 17th stage of the Tour de France contained synthetic testosterone [btw, I seem to remember that this was leaked to someone else on … Continue reading

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