Running Things I ran a 50k with my brother in early October. This was not a race with bibs and a start and a stop, this was just he and I going for a run. We did the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, which was an old rail trail. We started at Rattlesnake Lake, where his wife…

Vacation Talk Hamilton, Ohio. Yo had the Under Armour National Tournament at Spooky Nook in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton was named after Alexander Hamilton, starting as Fort Hamilton in 1791 and is located on the Great Miami River. Hamilton appears to one of those typical Rustbelt sort of towns, but it is actually really vibrant from…

Black Holes Just go with me here for a bit. The Tungaska event was a large explosion on June 30, 1908, in Siberia, Russia. This explosion allegedly felled 80 million trees and took out 830 square miles of forest. You have to remember that this was 1908 and so this was before there were any…

It has been too long. Books: I’m reading so much and it is lovely. James by Percival Everett: this is the best book I’ve read in a decade and it’s not close. It follows the Jim, the slave from Huckleberry Finn, and tells the story from his perspective. It is amazing. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar:…

1. The Mariana Trench is the world’s deepest trench and we think that it is 10,984 meters deep and the deepest point of the trench is 1.2 miles further from sea level that then peak of Mount Everest. the location is near Guam, south of Japan and north of Papua New Guinea to give you…

1. I don’t think I’ve talked about Fallout, but man, this has been a fantastic ride. I told Fitsum that we’d watch it together and this was either a terrible parental mistake or one where I introduced him to one of the more inventive and disturbing shows that I can recall. It’s on Amazon Prime…

I am trying to get back on track with this thing. I don’t know what I will, but let’s try. 1. I am very guilty of pouring and not drinking with some things in my life. Gotta start drinking. 2. I keep writing about how great Dirt is and if you don’t write all of…

Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit my brother in Seattle (Kent actually) and he has a 4-year and a 2-year old, he’s basically the same age when I had Fitsum and Youssouf (althought Youssouf had not come home yet when he was 2), he’s 40 now and I would have been 40 then…