Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia!

Six flags over Georgia! First of day... Goliath... was great! Now on to mine train.

Because you need to know...

It's pronounced Crow-Shay

Not Crotch-It.

You're welcome.

My latest observation

I have noticed that I have a lot more material to blog on weeks that I have lunch with Greg, Paul, and Zig. Evidently these guys stir the inner writer in me. It is odd, but true. Go figure...

A sweet surprise!

This morning my beautiful wife stopped by the office to drop off a folder I had forgotten at home. She surprised me by including a Starbucks hazelnut iced coffee with the delivery.

Thanks Melissa!

I’ve joined the craze… of baconnaise!

My good friend and “fellow” blogger The Swell Guy gave me a special gift on Sunday… a jar of lite baconnaise! My wife was not nearly as trilled as I was because for some reason, she just doesn't understand our bacon craze which has also recently included bacon chocolate. Funny too; because she loves bacon, crispy bacon, maybe that's the problem, it's not crispy. That aside, I had my first taste yesterday as I prepared a turkey "club" sandwich (bread, baconnaise, turkey, lettuce and fresh tomatoes) with this tasty spread. Eli, my 6 yr. old son also had a turkey "club" with me (minus the lettuce & tomato for him of course since his regular sandwich is just mayo and turkey). It was wonderful in so many ways, fewer calories than even my usual lite mayo plus none of the calories from the bacon yet ALL of the flavor! Eli and I don't mind at all that the rest of the family hasn't jumped in with us since that means more for us. J

Speaking of Kittens

A little compilation video set to one of my favorite Japanese kid's songs. Sing along if you wish.

Celebrate!

Several reasons to celebrate today. 1) God's blessed me another day. 2) Lost another 1.6 lbs this week. 3) Kittens born this morning, free kittens anyone?

I Win!!

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Full Contact Aggravation

Just settling into an all out offensive battle of aggravation. I'm
currently in the lead but Eli and Melissa are ganging up on me.

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We really Tri-ed!

What a great day! Our TRI-NC Relay Team had a blast at the SC Festival of Flowers Triathlon. It was fun to do it together and we had a gorgeous day. The event was well organized and it felt cool to be competing in a top notch athletic event.

I swam first and while I missed the time I wanted by just a little, it felt great when I was finished. It was my first time competing in open water and I did not quite know what to expect. Once I had completed the 1500 meter swim I was so energized that I knew I could have continued on a bike. This is encouraging as I hope to progress and do longer triathlons later in the year on my own.

Zig and Raye both did the time splits that they expected. Raye had a new personal best and we were within 4 minutes of 3rd. place in the Relay Team competition which would have netted us a "Place" and a trophy. It was also a blast hanging around to see our friends Ruthie , Josh, and Brian and Greg complete their individual events. I'm almost ready for next time!

Time to Tri

I am nervous, but ready for the Festival of Flowers triathlon in the morning. Glad I'm just doing the swimming though. :) Thanks Zig & Raye for biking and running on the team with me.

Debunking Billy

I started a bible study MANY years ago here. I actually started it at my previous church and after a brief hiatus I restarted it. It has grown from 1 or 2 regulars to about 10. One of our new additions (the past 2 years) has been Billy.



Billy is quite the unique character. We have had many discussions ranging from going for the PGA Senior Tour to how to start a home church. Somewhere in between those topics we have discussed food.... and the bible.



While I have listened patiently while he has spoken of eating Kosher (per the Old Testament), several of my friends (Paul, Karl Allen, and Greg) have had difficulty accepting the whole "ban on pork" thing. After Billy sent me a link on Pork Tapeworms in the Brain, I just had to do some research.



I think we have all seen the You Tube video clip of tapeworms coming out of two pork chops after pouring coke on them. While that was an upsetting thought, did any of you actually see tapeworms. I saw something white.. but have no idea what it was. Plus with the "time breaks" I would say that the likelyhood of this being true is unlikely.



When I searched for information that went deeper into the subject (from Billy's article) and did some Snopes.com searching I found a lot of debunking information. I can sum it all up in this. If you do a good job cooking the meat, you will not be growing tapeworms in your brain.



So Zig, Paul and Greg - eat all the pork you want, just stay away from the bacon sushi.

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