Texas Gives Finger to the Hague!!

I don't know why this makes me so happy, but man it does. I love Texas.

New

For those who truly have time to kill I started a blog to track my hiking, biking, trekking and general travel data from my awesome new garmin 60CSx. Link Here.

War Protests

I don't give war protesters too much thought, but they were on the news last night as they made a ruckus over the fifth year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. I was just struck by a couple of things:

- In Berekley about 100 people came out to see Cindy Sheehan speak and 80 more marched on the Marine recruiter there in Berekley. I assume there were a few more people than that in SF, given about 150 were arrested, but they all made the news. I've seen more than 100 people at Hometown Buffet. More than 100 people go to Crossroads Church on sunday. Oh well.

- Channel 2 interviewed a conciencious objector from Iraq Vererans Against the War, he was a pretty young guy who said that the events of 9-11-01 had moved him to act, so he'd joined the marines. Good for him. He had to leave the marines however when, during training, he'd discovered that the marines were training him to fight and kill people. So not only was he a dufus (doofus?), but he wasn't even in fact a veteran of the Iraq War. Oh well.

Update

I don't want my blog to get too dusty, so here's the updates:

- I've been with Fard for three years now, making it my longest employment engagement.
- Finally there's a good radio station again in the bay: KCNL 104.9 Sunnyvale.
- Lifelock, a provider of sevices I'm very intested in, doesn't really do anything you can't do yourself. We'll see how my efforts work out.
- It's almost summertime, which means that we have trips to Las Vegas, Yosemite, Monterey, and Mexico coming in the next three months.
- Melissa and I will be 90% debt free by 2009. Given how we started 2007 that makes me very very happy.
- Climbing Mission peak is a lot of fun this time of year. It's not too hot and it's actually green.

That's all the random information I can think of right now. Happy Easter everyone.

Squats

When you do a squat you're supposed to go all the way down, then all the way back up. It's cool if you're squatting alone and you can't tell, I used to do that, but today I was on the rack right next to one of the personal trainers who was teaching a guy to squat. He loaded the guy up before the guy learned how to do the move so the squatter couldn't even go down past 45 degrees.

Personal training is kind of expensive, the guy should be be able to teach you how to squat. Even this kid knows how to do it. Perfect form.