Last week I got the idea I wanted a treadmill desk. They’re kind of trendy right now and apparently sitting like I do for extended periods of time isn’t super healthy. Bryn sent me a link to this blog post and it looked do-able. After a couple craiglist acquisitions and a strenuous battle with the [...]
Bryn and I have been sitting on a gift certificate for indoor skydiving at iFly ever since our wedding. We finally got around to using it last Friday — thanks Christy & Brian! The set-up is basically a vertical wind-tunnel, with wind up to 180 mph to simulate a real free fall. It doesn’t really [...]
Happy and healthy family Great friends Still self-employed Not commuting to Nevada Passport stamps, current and future Huskies going bowling Snow in the mountains Black Friday and Cyber Monday shoe shoppers Blog readers Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for this year? -Nick
You know how everyone looks like a goof riding a Segway? Turns out they don’t care, because it’s awesome. We played tourist in SF last weekend, thanks to Bryn and her savvy Groupon-ing. Along the route we learned some interesting trivia, some of which was even new to semi-locals like us. In a period of [...]
I was scheduled to have arthroscopic shoulder surgery today, to repair the anterior labrum tear from my dislocation this spring. But I’m at home instead, due to a fascinating series of failures to answer my one simple question: “How much will this cost?” In my mind, for a non-emergency procedure, that seems like a completely [...]
In a big political deal between Amazon.com and California, the affiliate nexus law that forced me to move to Nevada has been put on a 1-year hold. As part of the deal, Amazon has promised to build a distribution center in California, bringing much needed jobs to the state and setting themselves up to collect [...]
