So I hear about this great contest to win a kick ass prize…  a new iPad. So I jump through there hoops to enter the contest and now they want me to take it viral and tell my friends!

Why the HELL would I do something like that? I want to win the iPad.. if I tell my friends then I decrease my chances.. DUH!

Yes sometimes I am a selfish bastard

But the real truth is that I’m not the only cynical person out there who thinks like this. Viral contests never made much sense to me.

Have a great day

Our friends at the garage started a Paleo Challenge (meaning the Paleo Diet) on April 1. A paleo diet more or less is removing sugar, grains and dairy from our diet.  Carrie ate Paleo for a while last year and she claims she could totally tell the difference in her physical performance. When Robin put up the challenge Carrie was quick to join.  I decided to take the challenge also for a couple of reasons. First to support Carrie and secondly to see how my performance improves as I train for my race. Read more…

It’s been about 7 weeks since I committed to training for the Fat Fifty Five MTB Race. From the start through the first few weeks of training I was doing CrossFit workouts 3 days a week and riding about 35 miles a week.. mostly rode. Read more…

Our old neighbor Rae in Tehachapi posted up on Facebook the other day

A tree limb fell next door and took out the garage and part of the kitchen…

That was our old house and that garage is where I spent 75% of my time because my office was out there.

Something new Carrie and I are getting into for the first time… endurance racing.  When we moved to Eugene, Carrie started working out with Eugene Crossfit and I got right back on my mtn bike.  A year later and now we’re both doing crossfit (but not with Eugene Crossfit) and we’re both training for an endurance race.

Carrie is entering the Blue Lake Triathlon.. which is a a sprint triathlon consisting of 1/2 mile swim,  12 mile bike ride,  and a 5k run.  Carrie’s race is in June.

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Saw this via Yahoo News the other morning. New reasearch shows that beer (in moderation) is high in silicon content which is important for healthy bones.

The type of silicon in beer, called orthosilicic acid, has a 50 percent bioavailability, meaning that much is available for use in the body. Some foods, like bananas are rich in silicon but only 5 percent is bioavailable. This soluble form of silica found in beer could be important for the growth and development of bone and connective tissue, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Past research has suggested that moderate beer consumption may help fight osteoporosis, a disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue.

Read the whole article about Beer May Be Good For Your Bones.

Having a great Sunday morning. Listening to some really good Blues in KVMR, a local station that plays a wide variety of stuff.  The sun is peaking out and looks like we are gonna have partly blue skies today.

My hope is to find a sitter for the kids for an hour or so later on this morning so Carrie and I can go for a trail run. If not I might just need to put a couple of the little ones in the double jogger and go for a run in Amazon park.

Back to my coffee and a Tinker Bell puzzle with Jaden.

Yes it’s been quite sometime since I posted anything. Sorry that life get’s in the way. Plus I’m not one to share my up to the minute happenings.

So what the hell have I been doing for the last several months? Well there’s work which is very busy right now.  The kids which keep is extremely busy. And somehow between working and maintaining the children, Carrie and I find time to work 3-4 days a week.

Jaden is now riding a bike without training wheels. Nathanael wants to be Jedi Master Cowboy Woody. Annie is hitting her terrible 2’s about 8 months early. We had to remove the kitchen chairs from the house because she drags them everywhere to climb up to something she shouldn’t have.

We’re looking forward to spring as the rain is getting a little old… although it’s been a pretty mild winter up here in Eugene. I thought it is was rather funny a few weeks ago when California was getting pummeled by snow and rain… it was sunny and warm up here.  The downside is right now the Cascades are hurting for snow it seems so it could be a pretty long and lousy fire season.

This animated video says it all. Anyone for Tea?

The US troops in Afghanistan proved they have retained their sense of humor.

“YOU MIGHT BE A TALIBAN IF…….”

1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon “unclean.”

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against..

7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.

10. You’ve always had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.