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I’m slower at a lot of things
Slipped into a pool lane today just as my sports editor was leaving the pool. He’s coming back from a little injury and is racing in his first track meet in some time this weekend. He’s naturally very...
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Your typical perfect Friday
This morning we went to the Barbecue House for breakfast. I had the BLT with egg and cheese and a side of hash browns. It was delicious. I found another bookstore and, finally, the AP Stylebook. It...
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This isn’t Ham-let, and I bacon your pardon
I swam 2,700 yards today. That may be more than I’ve ever swam before. It didn’t even seem hard. It felt like everything slowed down, my breathing was better. My arms were better, maybe my technique...
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The saunter of spring
Oh, sure, it is spring. But we are going to have one of those years, it seems, where two seasons are battling it out. Spring will win eventually. Winter isn’t giving up easily this year. Winter is the...
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All of these things are worth remembering
I follow exactly one comedy writer on Twitter. And tonight he linked to this essay written, he said, by a friend of his. That guy worked on the Letterman show, and he’s dishing the anecdotes. There’s a...
View ArticleHere’s a read that’s getting attention
Our editor-in-chief, Sydney Cromwell, wrote a great editorial about the conditions that her staff had to deal with in covering the former first lady last week. It has been noticed by the publisher of...
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Notes from the third floor
The work on the campus cafeteria continues. The short version is they are renovating. And part of that renovation has involved gutting the center of the large room. So they had to erect an interior...
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Chewacla Tri
The triathlon that we thought about just riding our bikes too. And then we each thought “I don’t want to carry all that stuff on my bike,” and wisely decided to drive. This was the first local...
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Chattahoochee Challenge Sprint Tri
Got to the race in plenty of time. Got to the front of the swim start line, which was the plan. Had a decent swim, for me. But this is relative. If you’ve read about my triathlons here before you know...
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Chattahoochee Olympic Triathlon
The race was fast. I was just slow. We rode our bikes to the race from our nearby hotel. Rode across the state line, actually. And we did that in the dark, with little blinkie lights on our bikes...
View ArticleKatydids, a tiger and criminals
James Lileks always likes to say you never hear the last one. Well, we’re still a good way from this year’s last katydid, and they didn’t mind pointing that out tonight. If you click on those little...
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You can park here
The parking wars. We’re having a lot of fun with emails around campus about the current parking crisis. None of this is new, of course. You go back to the first cars on a college campus and the first...
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You can do a lot with a Tuesday
The university announced record enrollment, which is now an annual announcement. There are now 5,206 students 46 states and 32 other countries. Also, the new yearbooks, documenting last year, were...
View ArticleTwo podcasts and a breakthrough two years coming
Here’s a podcast I did with my old friend Chadd Scott earlier this week. He’s launching GridironNow.com tonight, a site that will cover SEC football like crazy, and he’s asked me to take part. I’m...
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Jogging achievement unlocked
I ran 10 miles today, he said nonchalantly. And, in both of those phrases, I do not know what is happening. I also swam 3,000 yards. So I’m tired, sure. But it feels great, too. That’s all unexpected,...
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Your regular old Tuesday
Maybe you’ve heard that the governor and his wife are going through a divorce. And the two sides have asked for, and the judge had sealed, the paperwork. This is unusual in Alabama, and not especially...
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The perfect cuisine idea
Over the weekend we met friends for brunch. I had the chicken and waffle. It looks pretty good, don’t you think? I remember when I was young and was introduced to the concept of breakfast-for-dinner,...
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We did a half Ironman this weekend
In Macon, Georgia it rained. We’d traveled over Friday night, stayed in a hotel and woke up early to get rained on. That wouldn’t be a problem. There was to be a fair amount of swimming on Saturday....
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Back to the laps
After work, I hit the gym. Meanwhile, the football team was hard at practice: You see that view from the old fieldhouse, between the locker room and the pool. You know, you think you’re doing something...
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This post asks an implied question about pun apologies
We had some dramatic clouds today: Do you know what makes clouds dramatic? ACTING!* Sorry. Sometimes a pun grabs hold of you and it just won’t let go. Here’s a high school wall I passed the other day:...
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