I’ve been jogging for about a year and a half. Jogging doesn’t come easy for me as I am a generally inactive person. Never doing well at athletics, I found more comfort at the drawing board. After about three months of running last year, I caught “the bug” and started feeling the high that comes [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Doug TenNapel
I gave up smoking in 2008. Not forever, just for the year. I don’t think I would have quit forever so I wouldn’t have tried so I would have failed. But I knew I could do it for one year, so I did. My goal in life isn’t to remove all vice from my life, [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Doug TenNapel
So there’s this article that says Taller People are Happier.
I have to admit that I am a generally happy guy. I never tied it to my height, but I’m willing to go along with it. I assume it’s because up in this altitude my brain is starved of oxygen. That or because I have so [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Doug TenNapel
My brother woke me with a phone call, “Doug, something is going on in New York. A plane hit the World Trade Center.” I turned on the TV and the second plane had just hit. “What the hell’s going on?”
Our greatest threat was revealed on that day. Not Climate Change. Not Europe’s perception of us. [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Doug TenNapel
It’s true. It’s official. I’m going to run the Pasadena half marathon. It’s actually a Marathon, half marathon and 5k but I’m only doing the half.
I find that I do a lot better at something if I make it into some kind of competition. I have to have a goal, and it has to be [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2008 by Doug TenNapel
