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Seems blogging runs in the family

Matt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:40:43 +0000

Quite independently, without any prodding from me, it seems both my wife and my brother have started their own blogs today. I wish them the best of luck — it is an excellent medium to share thoughts with family, friends, and the world. My wife’s blog is BabyDayze and my brother’s is blog.nickmcc.com.

Coincidentally or not, they’re both running an installation of wordpress off my server.

2009 Goal #1: Muddy Trails 5K

Matt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:11:36 +0000

I think the goal is to escape the giant crawfish chasing you

One of my main goals this calendar year (notice how I avoided the term “resolution”; sneaky eh?) is to run my first 5K. I’ve ran here and there, but it’s always been on my own terms and often alone — this whole race thing is new to me. I have no intention to win it, but just to complete it in one piece is my goal.

So anywho, the Muddy Trails 5K is a nice little race in the Creekside Park section of The Woodlands. It goes down April 5th. I haven’t scoped it out yet, but I believe it takes place on some of the nature paths. How this translates to accommodate a couple hundred or thousand people remains to be seen, but at least it should be fairly cool (by Houston standards) in early April, and if it really takes place on the nature trail, there should be plenty of shade.

If anyone else is interested in running it let me know. Registration hasn’t opened yet, but it’s $20 if you register by March 20th.

Stop. Collaborate and listen

Matt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:29:31 +0000

My son, 18 months, recently has been on a kick for ice. He loves it. He’ll walk around the house asking for it: “Ice? Iiiiice?”. My wife and I, being the horribly awesome parents we are, decided to put this to good effect by teaching him to amend “baby” to the end. So now our son says “Ice ice baby”.

But no, we didn’t stop there. He now will sing the bass line: “dun dun dun der der dun dun”. It’s amazing. I’ve never been more proud.