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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Mr Gary Patriquin is sponsoring the 2008 Heroes Run in Lockport, IL in honor of CPT Travis Patriquin and service members killed in Iraq. It will be 9 Aug 2008 at 0800. It starts at the Lockport High School, 1323 E. Seventh St., Lockport, IL 60441.
You can choose from a [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Here’s more amazing video from Rob T’s Antarctica trip; set to some music that got my soul singing along, too!
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
This was some footage Rob T. took on his trip to the Antarctic Marathon, and it’s awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbXtnh2K1Bk
This is not recommended for children too young to watch some of the "meatier programs" on Animal Planet.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Rob T. did something pretty amazing after running his first eight marathons: He ran the Antarctica marathon! (I didn’t even know there was such an event). He and some friends and family put together a short video on YouTube about it.
The event was run on King [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
My Grandma passed away today.
Grandma was the mother of four children who grew up close and have remained so for my entire life. She worked as a nurse on the night shift; she went for years simply ‘high-fiving’ Grandpa and her children as she walked in the door and they walked out [...]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Glenn made the Austin American-Statesman, check out the guy to Gov. Perry’s right (larger picture here)!
Glenn, his brother, and the Governor are all Eagle Scouts and are all members of the Order of the Arrow; much like the two guys who make Weltanschauung possible (primarily this one but also this one). [...]
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
My wife and some friends and I all went to Appi to get some skiing in. This would likely be my last skiing trip from Misawa, as I’m due to be reassigned before next winter.
I started off on the black slopes and tried some of the techniques my friend Trigger [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Yesterday my family and a friend of my wife’s all caravan’d out to Hachimantai to try some skiing there. We hit the Panorama side, which had six or seven easy and well-groomed runs (two or so had decent powder in the morning that was gone by midday, since it wasn’t snowing). The other families [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Today my wife and kid went to the Hakkoda ski area with Shep and his family. Getting there and back was more time-consuming than normal, one of the roads up the mountain was closed, and all of them were snowy (fortunately not icy). The Sheps are snowboarders, so it was my first time both [...]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
May everyone in all the world experience the peace and joy of the season, even if only for a few moments.
Please keep the folks who are downrange in your thoughts and prayers!
Let’s all keep in mind "The Reason for the Season": This is the celebration of the birth [...]
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