Archive for September, 2008
Not sure how I got here this quickly. Just a year ago I wrote the post A Techie Looks at 40. Now here it has come and gone I'm officially over the hill or there abouts. I was talking with Sabrina and the girls last night about how I think at a certain point your true age is determined by three things:
Genetics - You can't do much about that one.
Lifestyle choices - These are many little choices that add-up. I can tell you that I feel remarkably better than I did a year ago. I dropped my 20
September 24, 2008
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I think I may have found one of my future hobbies. This cat over at POPcycles! takes old bike frames and refurbishes them into practical works of art. How cool is that. I love the simplicity of single gear bikes with a retro feel to them. Maybe it will be a side business or perhaps a non-profit to put bikes in the hands of folks who can't afford one. I could just see me some day having a workshop behind the house being known as the old coot who gives bikes away. With gas prices surely to conti
September 18, 2008
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The market correction for the over indulgence of our country is finally catching-up with us and it's going to smack a good bit for a while. We have been living on borrowed time with a false sense of prosperity for too long. Time to pay the piper and it is going to cost us big time.
No doubt things look grim. Our banking system is in virtual free fall and our international environment looks grim with Russia back on the scene as our enemy of old taking aggressive steps; building a base in Syria a
September 16, 2008
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