My Paper Challenge: Solutions

I’m about to restart my paper challenge. Going to hold on to another month’s worth of recyclable white paper, newspaper, magazines and stuff so I can see how I am doing in reducing my consumption and impact. Before March gets here, I am going to give you all some solutions I have used to help […]

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I’m from KY, But Still …

I’m an active contributer and helper to the We campaign, one of the many initiatives to help fight global warming. One of the new partners in this fight is Reality.org (which has a bitchin’ logo … damn I wish I had thought of that). One of its new commercials is directed by the Coen Bros., […]

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Back in DC … And Having to Hold It

If there was ever a time to appreciate my telecommute day, it is this week. Because I get to go to the bathroom. Hold on, let me explain. Each week during this month, a different floor in my office building is having the bathrooms remodeled. So this week we have to go downstairs and use […]

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Maui: A Fond Farewell

Looks like this will be my last post from Maui. I still have several hours left here before I head to the airport and the reverse trip from hell back to DC, where apparently it will be 40 degrees, snowy, rainy and windy as we land. Brilliant. I will miss this island. I constantly refer […]

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Maui: Whale Watchin

Hell yes. I saw a couple whales breach today. And I got the sequence of one of them (pictured above) to prove it. Awesome. And let me tell you, it was breathtaking to see in person. Today was my first-ever time on a boat. Well, a boat that was not called a ferry that took […]

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Maui: Ah, to be Young

Wednesday I got to play my second round of golf here on Maui. The first round on Monday, at Kapalua’s Bay Course, was not as successful as I had hoped. Granted, it was my first time even swinging a club in 4 months, so some rust was to be expected. And while I was a […]

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Maui: View of the Beach

Yes, go ahead and hate me. I don’t care. But I wanted to be fun and test out posting a video to this blog for the first time. I shot video with three different digital cameras, but for some reason I couldn’t get the video to recognize. So I decided to go danger ghetto style […]

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Maui: 10,000 Feet of Pain

Searing pain. All through my body. That’s what I feel hours after coming down from the Haleakala Crater, a volcano on Maui 10,000 feet above sea level. The air was thin, the hiking was slow and I feel mocked by a couple from Alaska, but in the end I am very pleased at our efforts […]

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