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Kirk

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About Me

I moved to Seattle from Michigan almost ten years ago. Damn good decision! I like to travel for skiing (for fun) and swimming (for competition). Other than that just try to do what I want as much as possible and work as little as possible. I'm married with no kids and one cat.

My Interests

Swimming

I swim with Husky Masters at the University of Washington.

Skiing
I'm definitely a "weekend warrior" and not a very dedicated one! But, I do love skiing.
Here's a group shot from the TGR Whistler Summit, 3/06. I'm standing under the "w." photography, hiking, gardening.

Music:

The Shins, Belle &amp Sebastian, The Church, Catherine Wheel, New Order, American Music Club, Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters, The Chameleons, Julian Cope, The Auteurs, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits, Blur, Echo &amp The Bunnymen, The Flaming Lips, Pinback, Radiohead, Guided by Voices, Built to Spill, The Clash, Bob Marley, The Who.

Movies:

Raising Arizona, Slap Shot, The Jerk, Caddyshack, Trainspotting, 24 Hour Party People

Television:

Current shows? The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm. I guess the only current show I watch on a consistent basis is Lost.
Older classics: Alf (yes, Alf), Seinfeld. Gilligan's Island--of course.

Books:

Currently plowing through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series . Great stuff! My favorite books ever are quite possibly the Rabbit Angstrom series by John Updike. Start with Rabbit, Run and see if you get hooked, too!

My Blog

Results from Worlds

The meet went great!  Didn't hit all my goals, but I was close, and I kicked ass in my focus event: the 800 free. 200 free 2:07.37 (PNA record)800 free 9:24.10 (PNA record--old one was a 9:43!)20...
Posted by Kirk on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:32:00 PST

Goals for Worlds

Since Alden made his goals public I thought I might as well follow suit!  Masters Worlds are at Stanford in August.  I'm swimming five individual events: 200 and 800 free, 100 fly, 200 and 4...
Posted by Kirk on Thu, 11 May 2006 11:32:00 PST

Short course season finale

The 2006 short course swimming season went out with sort of a whimper for me.  Training just never really got going that well for me this year.  I was swimming pretty well last fall, but the...
Posted by Kirk on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:41:00 PST