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- where i’ve been: monica & i moved at the beginning of june. we started out looking for something older and with character but guess what, character takes a lot of freaking work! we ended up opting for a 9 year old house in the heart of suburbia. honestly, i would be just as happy [...]

“go hiking more” is one of my current goals on 43 things and i’ve been doing a pretty good job of following through on it this year. most of my waking moments are spent in a sea of overstimuli and there’s something very appealing to me about going to a place where it’s actually quiet [...]

photo by kristin k. that’s my impression of a bald eagle. seriously.
since the last trip i took to mount tammany seemed like so much fun, a bunch of friends came along when i returned at the beginning of november. it was absolutely perfect weather. the turnover from the summer that wouldn’t end to autumn was [...]

full album here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatchaboy/sets/72157602213699970/
i contemplated spending sunday playing halo 3 but instead i went up the red dot trail of mount tammany in the delaware water gap. it’s one of the more demanding hikes in new jersey with the reward being a rather spectacular view (by the way, i used photoshop’s photoedge to put the [...]

i’ve been playing a ton of tennis since spring arrived in full force - at least 4-5 days a week with three or four different hitting partners. i started using a new racquet, the prince triple threat bandit. that’s a hilarious mouthful right there. it plays a lot softer than i’m used to and feels [...]

in the near future, i’m going to be contributing to long running zine jersey beat. thanks to bob sheairs and jim testa for for putting everything together. i’m pretty psyched to represent south jersey and already have a couple local reviews lined up as well as my first couple of interviews planned.
i had a post [...]

limping towards the end of a week’s worth of vacation down here in lovely ventnor city nj. the weather has been unbelievable all week long and i’ve been down to the beach three out of the past four days. yep, me! just a couple of things for now, more later:
currently reading the runes of the [...]

my USTA tennis team, you’ve been served (long story) is playing in the district championships in hamilton township during the last weekend of july. we have matches at 8:30AM both mornings, yikes. cutting my running to once a week and trying to up my tennis to 4 times a week in preparation, we’ll see [...]

i should call the park and find out exactly how long their track is. i’m under the impression that it’s a quarter mile. i can do ten laps in about 50 minutes. but that would mean that it takes me almost an hour to run two and a half miles. i mean, i can walk [...]

i’m going to try cutting down my poultry and fish consumption (i stopped eating red meat twelve years ago). so far, so good - at most i want to eat meat 2-3 nights a week. we’ll see how it goes and if it makes me feel any different.