Okay, we were in Dallas, not Midland, but that’s a headline I’ve always wanted to write. Our team got off to a rocky start at the World Series this year (3rd qualification in 5 years for me) but we started hitting better once we got slotted in the “losers’ bracket” and clawed our way...
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Glory Days
After visiting a couple of old friends out west, and attending a memorial service with them too, I was loaned some old photos I hadn’t seen in forever. That top/left one is a high school gig I had with my old band Reverse (nice mod tie and electric drums, yo!). And then these are...
Continue reading3-Year Spine-iversary
It’s been three years this month since I had this procedure which shook things up a bit for me. There were ups and downs that first year, but since then I guess I feel like I’m 80%-85% of where I’d been before. Which isn’t too bad. I’m off to the World Series of Softball...
Continue readingTV Pilot Commission for Maine-based Sitcom
I got a modest commission to create a spec script for a Portland-based sitcom to highlight the personality of that coastal town (and maybe take some attention away from Portlandia on the OTHER coast). Some initial title ideas: Portland, the Other White Meet Bay Island Ferry Chebeague Island Don’t Come to Peaks Island Breezed...
Continue readingSpring 2022 Softball Stats
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but our team qualified for the Softball World Series again this year. We barely squeaked out a win in our final qualifying game. This will be the third year we’ve made it since I’ve been with the team. First it was Kansas City, then Columbus. And this year...
Continue readingNew Year’s Eve Goal (roughly) Met
A little late with an update here, but managed a 13-mile run on December 31st (hello 13/31) remotely and in pieces this year. I was in California and started on a 13.4 mile trail around the Briones Reservoir Loop Trail (below). However, about two miles in, I ran into an impassible mudslide and had...
Continue readingMy Brief Modeling Career
I was cleaning up a bookshelf recently and stumbled on an old magazine and brochure from back when I was, ahem, a big-time New York model. In fact, I was working for The Princeton Review at the time, and they were putting together some print ads, and Management decided that the agency we’d hired...
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A few days ago I learned that one of my best friends growing up has an advanced form of incurable cancer. I probably spent more time with this guy from 7th to 12th grades than with any other non-family person. Truly formative years. The news hit hard, of course, and I’m still digesting it,...
Continue readingAnd Then, Ten Again
Another run in the can. This is the first time I’ve run a full ten miles (checks notes) since December 21, 2020. On target for the end-of-year showdown (I think)....
Back in the Game
Biggest run of the last 11 months this past Saturday. 9.1 miles on Town Lake. Trying to get ready for the “traditional” 13/31 run at the end of the month. Will I make it? Time will tell. Side note: now that the 13/31 is a semi-regular thing, and 14/48 is a non-pandemic usual, I’ll...
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