From the monthly archives:

August 2009

New Tailgate Addition?

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One week until football! I think this is needed for this years tailgates! Which one of you engineers is going to build it? I am thinking maroon and orange corduroy…

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Fall 2009 Travel Plans

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Summer saw a slow down in my travel schedule. Most of my weekends revolved around long distance swim training and warm up races as I was in full training mode for the 5.25 mile swim. These warm days were made for beaches and I did my part travelling to New York twice; once for fun [...]

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Big Rocks

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Sooner or later you have endured enough of these things that when presented with any other challenge you can say to yourself ‘after dealing with that last one, nothing can be as difficult as that was ever again.

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Accountability

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Last Friday I wrote an article titled Floodlight or Laser. I wrote about the need for focus and accountability while pursuing your goals. I also began to start explaining what the Cubicle Warrior website project was all about and promised more to come. Specifically, I said that I would list my goals and where I [...]

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The Checked Luggage Hack

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Checking luggage sucks. Not only for the fees you have to pay – each way! – but for the fact that once you give your luggage to the gate personnel, you stand a fair chance of never seeing those belongings again. So, what if there was a way to check your luggage in a manner [...]

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First Semester Spanish Love Song

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I usually try to pick up a couple of phrases and root vocabulary of the main language of any place I am going to visit. Even with my Germany trip imminent, I’ve had difficulty finding time to hit the Rosetta Stone – German One as much as I would like. The funny thing is that [...]

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Floodlight or Laser?

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You can burn bright, you can burn strong, but when it comes time to get stuff done you can either be a floodlight or a laser. Trying to be both will just burn you out. Trust me.

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My Open Water Swim Team

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Open water swimming in the ocean is dangerous; lucky I had a great team.

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Swimming with Sharks

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26 foot shark heard I was coming to swim the week before the 2009 Cross Bay Swim, committed suicide.

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1000 Tiny Choices

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“Make good choices.” ScopeCreep tells that to his kids all the time. He mutters it when his friends tell stories of ‘bad’ choices. He’s been known to recite it when other fathers speak of their kids going astray. I am certain he repeats it again, and again, and again to himself through out the day across a wide spectrum of circumstance.

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