For Timothy

Chapter 1 verse 14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners — of whom I am the worst. 16 But for [...]

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Gift of la familia

This Christmas probably ranks as one of the best Christmas’ I’ve ever had — Its not as though we took some elaborate trip in fact we just stayed home. Our family has been dedicated to watching a lot less tv and reading our Bible’s together as a family nearly every day since late October and [...]

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Every day is Arbor Day

If there is one thing I can say of my maturity as a gardner it is that I have become much better at getting new plants into the ground the day I get them. Root bound and pot rot are no longer friends of mine and today was no different as I was able to [...]

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Will I ever get into a rhythm

I started using the RunKeeper (Sean Mayhew) a few times to track my pace and distance a month or so ago. I can’t decide if I love it or hate it – I love it because it makes the tracking a whole heck of a lot easier – I hate it because the voice in [...]

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Trick to disabling the horizontal scroll on the Apple Magic Mouse

After months of irritation particularly in Illustrator and Photoshop and thinking I would get used to it I finally gave up and hunted down a fix for disabling the horizontal scroll on the Apple Magic Mouse Open up the Terminal App from your Applications/Utilities Folder and then copy and paste this line in defaults write [...]

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Recently discovered Martin Denny

I’m sure to the hipsters out there this is old school but Martin Denny is relatively new to me. So far my favorites tend to come from Quiet Village. I guess they call him the “father of exotica” — I call it easy listening Sean Connery as James Bond lounge music. Pandora also throws in [...]

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The Beast Swimming the Crawl

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPWFKTr8lE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] This is my little triathlete in the making — she already swims on her back faster than me.

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2010 ATP

I have not completed a triathlon in over two years. I went from one sometimes two or three a month from 2003-2005 to nothing. I’ve still done a few road races and that sort of thing but since my divorce and then re-marriage and a baby and a whole new larger family plus I’ve been [...]

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Started working more free lance

Let me get this out of the way first. The baby is great. I know I’ve been in and out a lot lately basically non-existent really. I’ve basically determined that twitter is more my style of banter little quick short notes vs. writing big long posts you can follow me @heliocreative. Mind you I try [...]

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First race of 2009 – Matanzas 5000 – PR

Its funny to me to say race because my main competitor is myself and the clock but it gets the job done. My primary goal for this race was a sub 24 minute 5k in order to get a top 2000 number for the upcoming (March 14th) Gate River Run. My time was 21:55. That [...]

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