My New Chimerical Kit

Barefoot running, in theory, will allow your feet to work in the completely opposite way, with the ball of the foot striking first and then rolling back to the heel acting as a shock absorber for the rest of your leg.

On a whim I decided to try these Vibram Five Fingers. Actually, I decided after having seen a guy wearing them at our County fair and he didn’t get beaten up. I figured if he can walk around the County fair in these crazy looking shoes, then I should be able to wear them in public and not have too many problems. After a single day of wearing them around I was 100% sold!

I feel…. FANTASTIC!
After some serious thinking about this C25K program I got really scared that if I started on March 1st I was nearly positive that I’d fail… quit… or otherwise completely flop. So, I decided the best thing to do is start early; it’s now or never. So, if not March 1st [...]

Last year, Christina and I developed a blog meme that we called “Individually Collective Blogging” or ICB. We originally developed it in preparation for writing our Collective NaNovel for NaNoWriMo. And while collective noveling didn’t go as swimmingly as we had thought it would, collective blogging is still fantastic.
2010 should be a fun [...]

If you have ever taken a moment to peruse the pages of this blog you would have noticed a page called “Scrabble Tourney ‘09.” And if you happened to peruse it recently you would have noticed that it’s titled has been changed to “Scrabble Tourney ‘09 – Final Score!”. Well, folks, the results [...]

Last year, Christina and I developed a blog meme that we called “Individually Collective Blogging” or ICB. We originally developed it in preparation for writing our Collective NaNovel for NaNoWriMo. And while collective noveling didn’t go as swimmingly as we had thought it would, collective blogging is still fantastic.
2010 should be a fun [...]

Last year, Christina and I developed a blog meme that we called “Individually Collective Blogging” or ICB. We originally developed it in preparation for writing our Collective NaNovel for NaNoWriMo. And while collective noveling didn’t go as swimmingly as we had thought it would, collective blogging is still fantastic.
2010 should be a fun [...]

It’s been a little while since I posted an update. That’s because DH and I took a nice relaxing trip to Arkansas to visit my family for Christmas. Sure… it was reeeeaaaaal relaxing. NOT. And it’s all thanks to Delta Airline’s über-fail.
December 22, 2009: Leaving Dulles Airport
We were all scheduled to [...]

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that it was sort of an “unofficial” New Year’s Resolution for me to donate blood as many times as possible this year. I’m O-Negative… part of the 7% of the population (of the word, I guess) that has this blood type. We are the universal [...]

This year when I head to Arkansas for Christmas I will do so with my violin. My grandparents are getting older and I want to make sure that they are able to hear me play without having to travel the better part of 1,110 miles to hear it. However, the thought of traveling [...]

Normally I reserve my Bibliophile posts for book reviews. However, today’s Forgotten English Desk Calendar had the following as it’s daily entry:

do-withall
I cannot do-withall, I cannot help it. This phrase is not uncommon in early writers.
~ James Halliwell’s
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth [...]

Today just happens to be National Cupcake Day and in commemoration I trotted over to Lola’s Cookies in Leesburg and purchased two of their special holiday cupcakes. The fame of Lola’s Cookies has reached far beyond our little community. The Washingtonian and Northern Virginia touting their cookies. Lola’s has made appearances on [...]

Apparently today is National Cupcake Day. I think there’s some confusion on the actual date of National Cupcake Day since the American Food Holiday website lists several different dates for National Cupcake days. An amateur might think that this erroneous, but a connoisseur would note that these are actually separate holidays meant to [...]

Every year right around Christmas time I get an itching to read books about Christmas. This year I selected two volumes, The Man Who Invented Christmas by Les Standiford and History of the Snowman by Bob Eckstein. Today I would like to discuss the former of the two.
We headed out to William & [...]

I’ve been doing an insane amount of staring at a computer screen lately. Between our digital imaging project at work, NaNoWriMo, and working for Beth at Web Strategies, my eyes have been doing over time on the computer. I’d be lying if I told you that I simply loved staring at a computer [...]

First, I’d like to apologize for the state of My New Chimerical Kit.  I know it doesn’t look too pretty right now.  I promise I’ll get to that shortly.
Yesterday, at approximately 0:00 hours My New Chimerical Kit imploded.  I’m not sure what caused it, but I got the dreaded “WordPress White Screen of Death.” [...]