On Thursday the activity for the day was to ascend Pike’s Peak. This task was made a lot easier by the cog rail like that runs up the mountain. It’s pretty cool – in addition to the normal rails, there is a toothed rail that runs in the middle of the normal tracks. [...]

I had no idea there was so much involved in simply eating sushi.

Apparently in India they’re testing drugs on the poor. Maybe they should have filmed Constant Gardner there instead of Africa. India is the new Africa.

I like my space. I like to sit on the Metro and calmly read a book or magazine on the way into work. I despise those who read the Post, or even the Post Express – they who take up so much extra room with their constant shuffling and page turning. Apparently [...]

mmm…chocolate fountain.

I’m starting to see a pattern in my weekend athletics: running/biking in the cold at an “event” as opposed to training makes me sick. Case in point – I ran the “Jingle All the Way” 10k (a replacement for the canceled “Jingle Bells 10k”) on Sunday morning and sure enough, by last night [...]

One of my friends is an architect – the whole engineer/architect rivalry hasn’t ever come up. Probably because I’m not a Civil Engineer. So in that spirit his girlfriend decided to throw a gingerbread building house birthday party. Every one was to bring all their building materials to her house and [...]

Working from home today on a “snow day” – where the 1″ of snow we got last night yet again shutdown the city. Like every year the “blizzard” that was going to leave 3-6″ at the last minute swerved around DC and only gave us about an inch. What a waste. I’m [...]

Today was the first day of a three day training course I’m running for work. This is the first time in my professional career I’ve been solely responsible for delivering something of this nature. Even thinking back to college I can’t remember giving many presentations – other then pointing to some graphs and [...]