After a week of not doing anything, I was feeling OK on Friday. So Saturday I swam, and today I ran. I think my back is back to its only occasionally painful state. But I am going to see my doctor about it, in an attempt to get to the bottom of my back problem.

This morning I got up kind of early (although not as early as Danielle, who ran Roses to la Playa this morning) to get in a yoga work-out before we leave to go camping this weekend. Right at the start I noticed my lower back was incredibly tight. Initially I had trouble just touching my [...]

I use several image manipulation programs on a regular basis (Bibble, Picture Window, Gimp) and none of them have the user interface for rotating that I want. When I rotate a picture it is 98% of the time because I’m trying to get the horizon horizontal. I just want to draw a line where I [...]

On Wednesday night I had an awesome bike ride home. I ended up working a bit late, so it was completely dark when I left. Getting out of Santa Barbara, was its usual self (which isn’t bad), but past Montecito I had an amazing moment. Chilly evening air rushing past me, the sky is clear [...]