November 2008
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Healthy Improvements
Since the start of this year, I have made several lifestyle changes to live healthier. I have started drinking water more and cut out virtually all soft drinks. I have extended my jogging program to run long, now doing 3 miles three times a week. Last month Shannon and I started using Nutrisystem and my [...]
Life without Kentucky Basketball
I started watching University of Kentucky basketball at age 8. I cut my teeth on and cried my first tears for the 83-84 team which reached the Final Four. Since then, I have followed UK as closely as I rationally can. I do not remember missing a game that was on TV and that did [...]
I finished my race
I ran my 4-miler in the cool, drizzly morning without stopping once. I finished right at 38 minutes. If I had one of those electronic race chips to make my time official, I would have finished in the top 10 of my men’s 30-34 age division, at least among the men who also used those [...]
My Glory Years
This Saturday I will be running in a local 4-mile run race sponsored by the local YMCA. My goal is just to run the race without stopping once to walk. Also on Saturday my cousin Derek is running in a slightly more competitive race with higher aspirations than myself. Derek is running in the Kentucky [...]
Jacob – Soccer Star
I just finished coaching Jacob’s Under-5 soccer team at the local YMCA. It was a lot of fun, and the kids actually improved during the season. At first, I felt it was a hopeless cause – you should have seen the first game and the level of “play”. But they came along way and became [...]
Halloween Pictures
Here is the slide show of all our Halloween outings. You have seen the first batch of pictures already, but now I have pictures from our Fall Festival, Jacob’s preschool class’ Halloween party, trick-or-treating Halloween night and our annual Halloween night dinner at Roberto’s Mexican restaurant. As part of this annual tradition, we put on [...]
Ava Lauren Meadors – 8 months old
My baby girl is 8 months old today. We went for a doctor’s checkup this week. She weighted 21 lbs (95% percentile), 27 inches long (50% percentile) and 18 1/2 cm head diameter (a whopping 150% percentile). She is crawling everywhere. Jacob’s was active, but I don’t remember him being the crawler Ava is. Her [...]
My President
I became eligible to vote 4 months into Clinton’s first term. My first presidential election was anticlimactic as it was clear Bob Dole had no chance to defeat Clinton. That made the 2000 election as my first meaningful presidential election where I could really connect with a candidate that could be president of the United [...]
