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My Interests

Music, tuba, guitar, trombone, trumpet, piano, clarinet, saxophone. I like baseball, try to read about that. I love good food-look at me, you can see that. I like making things, even if it's trouble.

I'd like to meet:

people who are trustworthy, people who are original

Music:

I'm pretty eclectic in music, I like a lot of stuff. If you put my iPod on shuffle, you'll get a very strange mix, including classical, guitar, rock, pop, blues, gospel, inspirational, instrumental, even a tiny bit of rap.

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke, Sleepless in Seattle, Mr Holland's Opus, League of Their Own, The Babe, The Natural, The Mission, Groundhog Day, Cinema Paradiso, Brassed Off, Hoosiers, The Patriot, Rudy, Moonstruck, Bend it like Beckham, 61*, Princess Bride, Conspiracy Theory, Breakfast Club, Glengary Glenross, Tin Men, Hitch..... the list just goes on

Television:

Antiques Road Show, Seinfeld and M*A*S*H reruns, sports on TV, football, baseball, NASCAR

Books:

The Heart of the Order. Lords of the Realm, Atlas Shrugged, A Fine Balance, Out of Left Field, Greek Fire

Heroes:

CS Lewis, Oswald Chambers, Smith Wigglesworth-there are a variety of everyday heroes who you wouldn't know, but rose to the occasion, including my parents. Anyone who does the most they can with what they have is a hero.

My Blog

Wrong Way

The thought occurred to me today, what if we could have a pedometer attached to us at birth, one that would only measure steps taken in the wrong direction. It could be as simple as the toddler who is...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Sun, 18 May 2008 10:33:00 PST

Gas at 4

Gas around my house has been flirting with $4/gal all week. I felt, or hoped, that the $4 mark would be such a psychological obstacle that it would be hard to cross. Will people change behavior at $4/...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Fri, 09 May 2008 11:41:00 PST

Choo Choo

Today was the Great Western 1/2 marathon in St. Charles, run on the vacated railroad right of way. I was a beautiful morning, about as good as it gets. I went there today with few expectations. Here's...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Mon, 05 May 2008 11:11:00 PST

Anti Dentite

I had the great opportunity to visit the dentist on Friday. I don't know anyone who really enjoys a dentist visit, I think inside most of us view dentists as sadists. Why else would anyone knowingly c...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:26:00 PST

Earth Day

Disposable plastic bags, which are made of petroleum, are under siege these days. Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year and only about 1 percent are recycled, according to the Worldwatch Insti...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:50:00 PST

Heritage Corridor 25K

Today I ran the Heritage Corridor 25K in Channahon. (15.5 miles) It's run along the I&M Canal. Not a great day for running, at least it didn't appear to be so. It was windy and rainy as we drove out t...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:41:00 PST

Lawn Ornaments, TP, and friends

In my town there is a house with a big polar bear in the front yard. It’s huge, almost as big as a real bear. I drive past it often. I always wonder how is it tied down ? I wonder if I could ste...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:12:00 PST

ING Atlanta Marathon

Thursday and Friday were warm and sunny in Atlanta, in the 70’s. Saturday startedwarm, we went to a Braves game and sat through a chilly 1 hour rain delay.Sunday, driving in at 5:30 am, it was d...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:49:00 PST

Saturday running

Saturday runningI ran 10 miles Saturday, took the 9.4 mile loop. I woke up Saturday morning, after 4 hours of sleep, and saw how ugly and gray it was, with snow, and I decided I couldn’t make a ...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:26:00 PST

Church today

I went to church today, no big deal, I have purposed in my heart to attend church more this year.I got to church late, for me, that means pulling into the parking lot about 9:55. Church starts at 10, ...
Posted by Flat Tire Expiring on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:54:00 PST