
Peter Mayle is famous for his autobiographical A Year in Provence. I haven’t read it, nor did I see the film, but I’ve always been aware of him. Mr Mayle was a sort of expert on Provence, and…


I had to get home by 7pm today to catch the return of TAR. It was a 2 hour premiere!! Although at first when the contestants were running out I was like why are there so many YDCs?? [not a…
It’s Car’s grandmother’s 95th birthday party today. And what a party for an amazing lady! There were many family and friends, and I’m no longer surprised that I know quite a few and get greeted as a…

Yes, I’m well aware that yahoo bought flickr ages ago. But why is there a need to force the yahoo branding onto the flickr logo? I hate, hate, hate it. I don’t hate yahoo, I just think that…

Talking about running, I registered for the nike 10k human race:
the Human Race 2009 is a virtual event - no need to get to a venue - you can run your 10K any where, any time on race day
youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppiF7FYQi_s
This song rotated to the top of my running playlist and it’s such a great song to start a run. I mean, I adore…

I’ve always thought risotto is difficult to make, at least perfect. I knew I’d have to try to make it one day, and with the mushrooms I bought at the farmer’s market early this week,…

My second Landshark event today was the oyster festival at Roscoe Village. According to the original blurb in Time Out it’s supposed to be a Guinness and oyster event; but somehow…

It was a perfect day for running along the lake. There were around 500 people at the beachathlon. The run was 4 miles plus 5 obstacles — pretty simple ones like people kicking giant…
I moved up 10 pounds for the s1-7 nrolw workouts, I’m at 60 for squats now. I know I can do more, possibly up to 1 rep body weight. The problem is, I can’t get the barbell up to the starting…

I picked up the gear for the next 2 races — the beachathlon this saturday and the AIDS run walk in October.
As soon as I saw the beachathlon event, I signed up. It seems so much fun:
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Mid-month update.
youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJWFvKQdM8
As a new owner of a sports car, I can safely say that yes, I look at other sports cars. And covet the models I didn’t…