Hey, so somehow I’ve had a lot more time on my hands recently, so decided to fix the issues I’ve been having with this site (database password got messed up – sorry, my bad). Also took the opportunity to upgrade to WordPress 3.3.1 – pretty!

Plan to post a bit more often, but we’ll see how that goes. Woo!

Every several weeks for the last few months, we’ve had at work a personal trainer guy come in and give talks on various health-related topics. The last one he did was on posture. My posture isn’t bad, but I’m conscientious of it and think it could be improved (especially since I sit at a desk all day), so I attended. After the talk I spoke with him, and realized during our conversation that this guy’s shoes had each of his toes separated, so it rather looked like he was barefoot, except that he was clearly wearing shoes. I had to know what they were, and he told me a bit about them, including that they’re made by Vibram (the same company that makes, for example, hiking boot soles), and they’re called FiveFingers (due to the separation of the toes).

My buddy Jack thinks they ought to be called “Monkey Feet,” but that’s another story altogether…
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As the subject line suggests, I passed the Basic Rider course I’ve been taking this weekend, so I now have a full endorsement from Vermont to drive motorcycles. Cool! Now all I need is a motorcycle.
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Today I had my first real day of learning to ride a motorcycle. I signed up for this Basic Rider Course about half a year ago (they’re very popular, you need to sign up way in advance to get a slot in one of these courses). It’s a two-and-a-half day course, running Friday evening, and all day Saturday and Sunday. Friday evening is just course work, while most of Saturday and all of Sunday involves actually riding bikes.
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“What Matt? You had waffles for breakfast?” No, although I wish I did. No, while I love waffles, I mostly mentioned them in the above context to make you think I might’ve had waffles, when, in fact, I intend to refer to waffles in an entirely different context. Basically, I was being deceptive and sneaky. That’s right: deceptive and sneaky.
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I found this poem in my local newspaper, the Burlington Free Press, about a month or two ago. While cleaning, I rediscovered it, and thought it would make an appropriate addition to my website.
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