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Month: March 2012

  • A record month

    The month of March has been a big one for me. Despite getting sick (again) earlier this month with the same thing I had the week prior to my trip to California, I managed to shatter a few records: – Most active month on RunKeeper (21+ workouts) – Best running month ever (42.1 miles) –…

  • Dry Lent: 40 down, 6 to go.

    First of all, at some point we collectively forgot how to count. Lent is not 40 days. It’s 46. You might be able to stretch that a bit and not count Holy Week (Palm Sunday – Easter Sunday), but nobody ends the Lenten sacrifice on Palm Sunday. It ends a week after that. Thus, here…

  • 40 Recipe Challenge, Part 8: Cajun Chicken & Shrimp Pasta

    This is my attempt to replicate the recipe by the same name that TGI Fridays offers. I made this without the red bell peppers, because I’m just not a fan of those things. Here’s what you’ll need: 1lb Fettuccine pasta 1lb chicken breasts or chicken breast tenderloins 1lb shrimp, cooked, with tails removed 1T butter…

  • A record month.

    Today’s 10K marked an important milestone for me: this has now been the most active running month I’ve ever had. I’m at 32.8 miles for the month so far (there are still 7 days left in the month), and I’m about 6 miles away from having a career length of 200 miles run on my…

  • 2012 Brewing Plans

    I was goofing around in Microsoft Project the other evening and decided to map out my various beers and meads that I was hoping to make. Given the limited amount of space that I have for fermentation in my apartment, I wanted to plan things out and determine how many 5 gallon glass carboy secondary…

  • …and now it’s no big deal.

    Last week I ran the first official 5K of the season and was pretty pleased with my time – 28:14, about 75 seconds faster than my time last year. It doesn’t hurt that the weather was a solid 25 degrees warmer this time than it was last time, but I’m glad that I was able…

  • California Adventure: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

    I woke up Thursday morning to discover that my flight from Chicago to Grand Rapids had been canceled 12 hours early, and United had automatically rebooked me for a flight on Friday morning…at 5am. Ignoring the “I don’t want to” aspect of getting up early enough to get there, this was an impossible situation. The…

  • 40 Recipe Challenge, Part 7: Crock Pot Pulled Pork

    After taking several weeks off, I decided it was time to get back into the 40 recipe challenge. This was the first thing I’d done since coming back from California, and it may actually spawn one or two other really good recipes in the next week or two. I had looked for crock pot pulled…

  • Minion Brewing: 1492 IPA

    It may be Lent, and I may not be drinking (20 days to go!), but that certainly won’t stop me from making beer. Last weekend (March 10) my friend and I decided to brew a batch of beer. It was my turn to get the kit, so I went to the homebrew supply store and…

  • California Adventure: Wednesday

    Wednesday was Day 1 of the Dry Lent, and (supposedly) my last day in town. My friend had to work and go to a few classes, so I was left to wander. We made plans to do dinner in San Francisco, so I decided to head out there early and wander around a bit. Prior…