So you want to brew beer
So you want to brew your own beer For a long time I’ve wanted to take on brewing my own beer. I wanted to do it because I’m sort of into hobbies at least trying them out. But I also…
Building a Sitting – Standing desk
Standing/Walking desk A simple search engine query and you can do hours of research on why standing more can pretty much keep you alive a lot longer than sitting. Let’s face it we sit all the time, in the car,…
Climbing Kili
Climbing Kili A recap and informational post on packing for and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. The week before I set off to attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro my wife asked me a question that rings over and over in my head.…
Let me tell you something about KIA
Let me tell you a little something about KIA. A year ago, quite honestly if you told me I would buy a Kia I would have told you that you’ve lost your mind. I, myself, have always been a Honda/Acura…
Have baby, will travel
I’m four months in, and still alive! That is I haven’t jumped off a building yet in an effort to just get some damn sleep! Not that I’m tired or anything…. This is a two part post cover the do’s…
What the internet culture has done to me.
You know every so often I have the forward thinking enough to step out of my current place and look at my life from the outside. What I find sometimes is terrifying to say the least. The internet culture has…
Weight Loss or Bust – So did it work?
I’ve been chomping at the bit (figuratively) to write this post but I promised myself I’d wait a full year before I did. Most of the people in my circles of overlapping communities have seen the new and improved me…
One Fifty Five or Bust
Mission: Lose 45 pounds by end of February 2011 (Follow up to this post on how the weight was maintained) I haven’t posted this up till now and only very few people I’ve been making some pretty big lifestyle changes…
Cruise on up to the Med
Ok time for a follow on Cruise blog post to “Cruise on up to Alaska”. My wife and I had a pretty wicked trip to South America planned this year. We were going to hike up to Machu Picchu, camp…
Oktoberfest
What is Oktoberfest for a first time visitor? Visions of Litres of the gold stuff, fräuleins as far as the eye can see and brightly colored beer tents with row upon rows of drinking gamed picnic tables! Well, you’d actually…