Happy Birthday to Me

 

Urbanathlon

Patrice and I participated in this 12 mile race on Oct 18th in Chicago. This pic is of me and Patrice's friend Jennifer. She and two other friends of ours ran the whole race, while Jennifer's husband, Allen, joined Patrice and me doing it as a 3-leg relay race.

The race included 6 obstacles. Here you see us just after coming down from the "scaffold maze" at the end of the second leg of the race.

The first leg was 4.5 miles (Allen ran it), the second also 4.5 miles (I ran it), and Patrice ran the final 3 miles, with three obstacles that included running the stairs of Soldier Field (Bears Stadium).

We finished 35th out of 63 co-ed relay teams, and 546 out of 903 competing individuals and teams.

American Tears

Mark asked me to send this to you if you hadn't already seen it.

 

 

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RE: Childhood houses

I was in KC a couple weeks ago and took some pix of the neighborhood.

 

The house you do not recognize is the Shryocks house next to Crittendons.

 

Jon

Bill Clinton speech at Harvard's 2007 Class Day in June, 2007. Part 1/3

 

 

Bill Clinton speech at Harvard's 2007 Class Day in June, 2007. Part 1/3 watch video

 

The Amazing Randy Pausch

I'd like to share this speech with you all.

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/multimedia/randy-pausch-lecture.shtml

I found it to be very inspirational and meaningful.

This is the full speech which lasts an hour and 45 minutes.

There are smaller snippets available online as well.

Enjoy!

Jon

J( *} pics from Machapalooza 2007

Haydee, Liz and Sal, loved the pics! Here's some of mine
[attached].

Love,
J( *}

on the way home - Liz

I usually don't have a camera with me, but on the way back from Kelly, Wyo today, Mija & I stopped to let the buffalo cross the road.