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Confusing TV Announcers for 150 Years

I’ve designed a shirt for WV’s sesquicentennial. I’ve put it on Teepublic, which is basically Kickstarter for t-shirts. We’ve had a slew of ill-informed announcers the last few years (longer, I know), and I figured we should go ahead and acknowledge it for WV’s birthday. I took a photograph of the Cheat River which I [...]

Posted on May 10, 2013 || No Comments
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Virus Killer: Eeeeeeee!

Over the winter holidays, a friend of mine was having some pretty odd computer problems that I first believed were being caused by a lack of updating. As in years of not updating things unless she noticed it wasn’t working. These were mostly browser issues, so I figured maybe updating the Java and Flash were [...]

Posted on March 25, 2013 || No Comments
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Journey: Update the Second

Last night I hit the 25% mark on my goal to walk 458 miles (the equivalent of walking from Hobbiton to Rivendell in The Fellowship of the Ring) by the end of June. In story terms I’m lost somewhere in the Barrow-downs after leaving Tom Bombadil’s house. The progress  through the story is oddly discouraging [...]

Posted on March 24, 2013 || No Comments
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Callously Under Callus Heel Blister

Ahhhhhh! So I finally got one of the serious blisters I’ve been flirting with on my higher-mileage walk days.  Since I’d been walking mostly indoors I could ease off when I noticed it being too much, or change shoes, but today I wound up going over 5 miles (in two sessions) in the great outdoors [...]

Posted on February 12, 2013 || No Comments
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Journey: Update the First

My first update on my walk to Rivendell. According to RunKeeper I logged 40 miles in January. Sickness in the beginning of February kept me down. But I need to make it 458 miles by the end of June. Will I make it in time? Oh the suspense!

Posted on February 8, 2013 || No Comments
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