InnerTeub

This is a new type of keeping up with the Joneses, for me, a way that goes beyond cars, and houses and who has the newest toy. So dangerous to want things because others have them, so dangerous to not be happy with what you do have; it scares me, this feeling. I’m caught off [...]

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A common argument in my house: I think we have too few bookshelves, the Boss things we have too many books. I love books. I love reading them, I love talking about them. I dog ear, underline, break the spine, read them again.  My favorite job I’ve ever had was working at Barnes and Noble, [...]

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God, it is so lonely running on winter mornings, up before the sun, fingers too cold to tie your shoes, your lungs catching on the chill, legs creaking in protest at moving through the cold, the early. I never feel more like a runner than I do on these mornings, shivering,  making deals with myself [...]

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So, last week was one of those weeks where you find yourself sitting on the kitchen floor spoon feeding a 100lb dog while your ceiling drip drip drips water through a light fixture. In other words, you know: totally awesome. To sum up: My 100lb dog now weighs 80lbs and after many, many MANY te$ts [...]

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While procrastinating a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an article from, REvolution Computing’s blog (they focus on the predicative stat computing package R): Varian used R to fit seasonal autoregressive models to retail sales, automotive sales, home sales, and passenger arrival data, and in each case made better predictions by including Google Trends data [...]

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Open Arms Originally uploaded by LizScott I was kind of a cranky bride in the sense that I refused to play along with a lot of basic wedding traditions. Bridesmaids? NO. Sweetheart table? NO. First Dance? NO NO NO. I like the idea of a “First Wedding Dance” in theory, however in practice I find [...]

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…Obviously the next best option is a picnic table. A bunch of us had hoped to jump into the Saturday morning workout at CrossFit Old Town, but they were filled to capacity. We did the next best thing and headed down the street to Gravelly Point Park,  where we threw together a quick but killer [...]

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