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Sabbatical recap
Well, my three-month sabbatical is over, and I’m back at work as of Monday. I was off work for 96 days. It was the longest I’ve been off work since my last parental leave in 2017 (about the same in terms of time), but for a good chunk of it the kids were in school…
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Notes from the trail 05.16
I’m trying to run 5 miles a day and crest 150 miles in the month of May. I’m at the midpoint, and it’s going ok, but the weather looks like it might crank up the difficulty setting to legendary. Today we had a 96 degree heat index and it’s just getting started.
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The hidden cost of cheap
I know the age-old wisdom that “you get what you pay for”, but it seems I needed to learn that lesson again. Here is what happened.
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New plantings
My project today (amidst a soccer game and the Minecraft movie) was planting this ‘Miss Kim Korean Lilac‘. It was not difficult to do but still required a solid hour or more and yet, like all gardening, the effort expended was vastly outweighed by the satisfaction received.
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Does coffee make you pee too much?
No, it does not, at least according to this post. Yes, the post is from a company that wants to sell you hydration stuff, but it feels legit. And yes, I just posted about reheating coffee and now this, so you can see where my bias is.
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Notes from the trail 04.17
I wanted to run 12 miles today. I didn’t manage to get that far, I was just…tired feeling. Then I read this interesting post about energy and running, and that got me thinking.
