Alcohol in an un/healthy lifestyle

The Health and Fitness blog has an article about America’s contradictory stances on alcohol. It references a New York Times article on the subject. The main gist of both articles is how drinking is both promoted and treated with kid gloves in the media and how...

Working out in inclement weather

What to do when an outdoor workout is scheduled for a day when the weather is less than ideal? Perhaps you want to do a speed workout, but it is extremely hot and humid, or perhaps it is snowing with 40 mile per hour winds. Or maybe you just want to go for a bike ride...

No more Red Sox this year…

The Red Sox have been swept, and will not be continuing on with their post season. I am not really surprised, though; they barely made it into the post-season as was. It would have been nice to have a repeat of last year, but if they are going to insist in putting...

More cosmetic work on this site

I have been doing more cosmetic work on this website. This post is to let my readers know about it, and to test some of it for functionality. Two birds with one stone, as I figure it. I am playing with making it easy to add related posts to new posts, and I have...

Running Dog Sports

Running Dog Sports is a new running shoe specialty store located in Gorham, Maine that opened in May of 2005. I have seen the owner, Kathy Hepner, at many of the local races as both a participant and as a sponsor. She is very actively involved in the community. I...

No more NoFollow in comments

When I was looking over a comment that I made in my post about managing hunger to stay fat, I realized that my new blogging software butchered my link. Then I realized that it was set as NoFollow. I figure that if somebody wants to go to the bother of commenting on my...

Managing Hunger to stay fat

I was reading earlier about tips to control hunger, which goes on about how a calorie deficit is the best way to lose weight. The problem with a calorie deficit, though, is that if you do not eat enough then you will actually get fatter because your metabolism will...

Soccer: FIFA leans more towards RFID in balls

FIFA is giving the goal line technology a second go in Liverpool at the end of the year. When FIFA has its annual meeting in Zurich next March, they will decide whether or not to implement the technology for the World Cup. They have not yet decided if it is an asset...

5 ways the Red Sox can beat the White Sox

The Boston Herald has an article entitled 5 ways the Red Sox can beat the White Sox. Matt Clement steps up. Bottom half of the batting order experiences wake-up call. The bullpen comes around like it did in 2003. Keep the White Sox offense a one-man show. Have Curt...