Category Archives: personal

I am a triathlon champion

I’ve entered one triathlon and I’ve won one triathlon! I was on a relay team this weekend and we took first place in our category!
http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_plain_text.php?race_id=8642
How does it feel to know a triathlon champion?
Ok so fine - there wasn’t a lot of competition in our category - but I think it still counts as a [...]

What are you doing tonight?

Who might be up for either:
1. A bike ride/race?   Where would you propose we go?  The more the merrier!
or
2. A Magic game - maybe a sealed booster pack game.  Maybe a 5 colors game if we could find 5 players!  Any ideas for a location (people will be sleeping at my house) for a game?
I [...]

Monday after camping

This is the worst day of the summer - the Monday after our annual camping trip.
Yesterday I took a good 2 hour nap in the afternoon and still went to bed at 8:30pm last night - which was a little bit earlier than I lasted on Saturday night.  I fully blame that on the 3-man [...]

What the hell is happening to me?

We had the last game of the season for one of the soccer teams I’m playing on.  I think we ended the only undefeated team in the league, but I’m not 100% sure of that.  There is no website that has updated standings or anything.  We probably won’t be the #1 seed because we had [...]

Would you still read?

Would you still read the crap that I spew from my keyboard if I dropped the whole kidpurple thing and only wrote on a domain name that used my real name?
Would you?
Should I?
Could I?
I’ve got this other blog that uses my real name. I don’t write much there and when I do its mostly [...]

How I developed my hate for Menards

Today I decided I was going to put up a pegboard tool holder wall in my garage.  Sounds like an easy job - I just need to buy some pegboard (30×70 inches), a couple feet of 2×4, and the actual hooks that go into the pegboard.  I can handle that I think.  So I head [...]

You missed a good soccer game last night

Our game last night ended on what could have been in one of those “World’s craziest videos” TV shows.  You know the ones where one team is chasing the ref around the field - that is what happened.
Our opponents got a red card in the 2nd half.  Their coach jogged all the way across the [...]

To all my fantasy readers out there

I strolled through the science fiction/fantasy section at Barnes & Noble today. I really wanted to pick something up - but I had no idea what to get. I thought about buying one of the books below. I read The Sword of Shannara a long time ago but don’t remember a lot [...]

Remember Magic The Gathering card game!

Remember Magic The Gathering - the card game - that I dominated you at?  It must be about 10 years since the last time I played a serious game of Magic The Gathering.  Apparently they’ve been producing new sets since we used to play and now there are over 2 million different sets.  Well maybe [...]

Finished a (half) marathon!

I did a half marathon on Saturday and finished a minute and a half under my goal time of 2 hours! After crossing the finish line I was hurting pretty good. I’m used to running on grass - so it was really hard on my feet and knees. Wearing old ass shoes [...]