February 7th, 2012

I’m loving life with my treadmill desk.  It’s hard to imagine all those hours I spent sitting before. After 2 months of honing my typing-while-walking skills, I’m up to 1.8 mph, and averaging 8 miles a day. It’s pretty awesome. -Nick

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January 27th, 2012

Didn’t make it.  On the one hand, I didn’t do a good enough job convincing myself my arbitrary prohibition mattered.  On the other hand, I’m just weak. -Nick

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January 20th, 2012

The Great Wall was even cooler than expected (and it was expected to be awesome), because in the late afternoon, we had the whole place to ourselves. With the setting sun and the rolling hills, it was pretty magical. Despite the vast length of the wall, it’s track record as a defensive monument was spotty. [...]

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January 18th, 2012

Bryn and I returned safe and sound from our China trip.  Came down with a little bug toward the end but seem to be on the mend now. We got an amazing deal through TravelZoo with a company called China Spree.  Like, airfare, hotel, meals, and the whole week’s worth of tours were less than [...]

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January 4th, 2012

Giving up alcohol for a month might be tough, especially with all the delicious Christmas beers I brought home. But I think I’m overdue for a little detox. I really don’t have a problem with a drink or two or ten every now and then.  It’s more about proving to myself I don’t need it, [...]

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January 3rd, 2012

Happy New Year! Sorry for the outage, apparently there were some database issues over the holidays at Bluehost.  As a result I lost all my search engine rankings for the site, so hopefully those come back now that it’s fixed.  Thankfully the site isn’t moneymaker, otherwise that would be really bad. There are some things [...]

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