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Google does bike paths!

This is very cool! Google just added bike paths and bicycle directions to Google Maps! Currently, the directions are available for 150 cities. To enable it, click on the More button lurking up by the Traffic, Satellite and Terrain buttons in the upper right corner of the Google map.

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Thank God It’s Monday!

Today is Chuck’s birthday, and Saturday was our friend Valerie’s. So to celebrate, several if us went to the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes this past weekend. It’s located on the tip of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where Marineland once stood (and where they filmed the TV series Sea Hunt). It’s an absolutely beautiful [...] No related posts.

Firecracker 10K to wind up the weekend

Since Chuck wrote up the sprint triathlon we completed on Saturday, I’ll talk about the Firecracker 10K that we ran yesterday. It was a fabulous day – amazing after the deluge of the day before. Days like yesterday make it clear why people want to live in So Cal: the air was crystal clear, the [...] No related posts.

Super Sprint Tri

OK, let me start at the beginning. Sine the end of last March I’ve been struggling to get back in shape. Eileen decided I needed a carrot and a sprint triathlon would be just the thing…

When we found the Race On The Base – Triathlon we signed up. It was a reverse triathlon: 5K, (3.1 [...] No related posts.

Attack of the creeping crud, and reflections on training

I’ve been battling some weird illness for the past week or so and it has been getting in the way of my training for the Paris Marathon, which is now only about six weeks away. I thought I had come up with my own weird disease until I started talking to folks and realized it’s [...] No related posts.

The week that was

It’s been a solid week on the road for Chuck and me. We’ve been traveling since last Sunday, and got home late yesterday. We spent five days in Yuba City where Chuck was doing some training, then headed down to visit friends in Vacaville, then yesterday we went to San Francisco to check out MacWorld [...] No related posts.

Chuckstrong!

It’s been a nerve wracking week here at Chez O’Shea. This week marked nine months since the end of Chuck’s chemo treatments, and six months since his last PET scan. Monday they did a new PET scan and today we got the results. It was all good news. Mister Fatty Necrosis, of whom I wrote [...] No related posts.

Enough with the catalogs!

If you’re like me, you get inundated with junk catalogs on an almost daily basis. A lot of the time they’re catalogs from companies from whom I’ve never ordered anything. Argh! What to do? Try Catalog Choice! It’s a little tedious at first as you have to enter the info for the catalogs you want [...] No related posts.

The wait is over. The iPad has landed.

I viewed/read the Gizmodo liveblog of the Apple event this morning announcing the (ta-da!) iPad. Now that the wait is over (well, for the announcement, at least – you’ll have to wait 60 days for the device to start shipping), it’s oddly, well, if not disappointing then not quite as magical as Steve Jobs claimed, [...] No related posts.

Apple tablet, Apple tablet!! It’s coming!!

My inner Apple fangirl is about to burst out and take control of my body for the next 12 hours or so in anticipation of the big announcement coming from Apple tomorrow. Will it be a tablet? Will it be under $500? Will it be able to walk on water (okay, probably not that…)? I [...] No related posts.