Some days it's not worth chewing through the leather straps

Sunday the 28th we ran in one of our favorite races, the Fans on the Field. Last year we did the 5K, and this year we signed up for the 10K because we wanted to go into all 3 venues. The race is called Fans on the Field because you get to run through the places where the professional teams play here in the Denver area. The 5K goes through Pepsi center where the Nuggets and Avalanche play, and through the new Mile High stadium. The 10K goes further towards lower downtown and through Coors Field where the Rockies play. It is a well supported race, in it's 3rd year and already has about 7000 runners! It is for a great cause, the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) where Skyler goes to ski in a sit-ski. Skyler is getting tough to run with! He outgrew the big, modified jogging stroller we had for him, so we push him in his wheelchair. Between him and the chair, it's about 170 pounds or so. You feel every stinking little hill, let me tell you... We carried along ou...

Everyone else out here has done a much better job of talking about Paul Newman, his great career, and his passing. But I wanted to make you all aware of what he did for kids all during his life, and what a difference he made. He didn't just lend his name to a cause, he was there. Enjoy this great article by Dahlia Lithwick: Posted Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, at 10:20 AM ET The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp opened in Connecticut in 1988 to provide a summer camping experience---fishing, tie-dye, ghost stories, s'mores---for seriously ill children. By 1989, when I started working there as a counselor, virtually everyone on staff would tell some version of the same story: Paul Newman, who had founded the camp when it became clear his little salad-dressing lark was accidentally going to earn him millions, stops by for one of his not-infrequent visits. He plops down at a table in the dining hall next to some kid with leukemia, or HIV, or sickle cell anemia, and starts to eat lunch. On...

Town Meeting, Wasilla, Alaska A dramatic reading of a 1996 Wasilla, Alaska, town meeting, performed by the actor Chris Schneider. A tour de force by Chris, well done sir... See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Dear Walter: I hope you can help me here. The other day, I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't gone more than a mile down the road when my engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband's help. When I got home I couldn't believe my eyes. He was in our bedroom with the neighbor lady. I am 32, my husband is 34, and we have been married for twelve years. When I confronted him, he broke down and admitted that they had been having an affair for the past six months. I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was let go from his job six months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed and worthless. I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the ultimatum he has become increasingly distant. He won't go to counseling and I'm afraid I can't get through to him anymore. Can you please help? Sincerely, Sheila --------------------------------------------------- Dea...

I was just reading over at Bubs place about clutter, refrigerator items, and general family stuff. I thought I would invite you all over to our place. First comes the item everyone is talking about, the refrigerator. At least I think there is a refrigerator under all those magnets and pictures... One item of note, we are proud owners of the original set of Starbucks magnets where you can pull them all apart and spell out cute little phrases. Remember these? At the front of the house is our "living room" where we don't really live. It is consumed by a computer center that has Skyler's iMac on the left with a larger external monitor so he can see better, and the family computer in the center. On the right is a flatbed scanner that I will gladly scan in my ass for a nominal fee... Moving to the left is a couch and bookcase, mostly with junk. Couches are always covered because of 4-legged family members. The picture on the wall is the 20th Anniversary Boulder Bol...

Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, the voices of Ace and Gary do a running commentary on their characters from the SNL cartoon skit Ambiguously Gay Duo. This is just laugh out loud funny people, check it out! Ambiguously Gay Duo Commentary by sporkythespaz

Back at the end of April I started on a project for my wife to tear out a bunch of old bushes that were dieing in front of our house, and replace them with a planting area she could put flowers and whatever in. The project started off wonderfully, when I found that the bushes were in such bad shape that the root systems were dead, and I could tear them out pretty easy. I had all of the bushes torn out, and the rock that they grew out of all shoveled and raked out of the way, and then in an unrelated event, I tore the rotator cuff in my left shoulder . This left my project unfinished, and in just about the worst possible place for it to be, with all the rock piled up and no way for me to start laying in blocks to build up the area. But Kathy was pretty understanding about the whole thing, and as the summer moved on with no flowers, I finally had rehabbed enough to finish things up. I moved in a whole bunch of decorative blocks, found a place that had some fill dirt to build up the leve...