Category: Personal

  • Shanghai – The First Few Days

    Justin and I are a few days in on our China 2011 trip.  While this trip is the first for both of us to get to visit Shanghai, the main purpose of this trip is two-fold.  One, it has been three years since he was able to visit his family so it’s time to reconnect…

  • Corey: Woodworker Extraordinaire

    Recently, Corey went ahead and actually built himself a CNC router.  This is something that is amazing to me as it is a huge amount of work and takes a lot of great thought to get all the components and make them actually work together.  I don’t have any pics of the router itself, but…

  • A Peek Into The Subconscious

    The last few nights I’ve actually remembered a few dreams that I’ve had. I used to remember some of them years ago, but haven’t remembered anything after I woke up for many years now. While I was a bit sad about that, it did give me the ability to sleep through an entire night and…

  • 2011 Christmas Cards

    It’s coming up on that time of the year again to start preparing for Christmas.  This year will be especially busy as we will be going to China again.  It has been nearly three years since we’ve gone back and seen Justin’s family.  There is a lot of preparation work that goes into a trip…

  • Chicago Half Marathon

    Yesterday I ran the Chicago Half Marathon.  While I am happy that I was able to run it and it was certainly an amazing experience, I didn’t end up getting the time that I wanted and although it’s only my second half marathon, it’s also my last. I ended with a time of 2:09:07, which…