ESSENTIAL THINGS: The Wacom Tablet

This is the first edition of ESSENTIAL THINGS, what I hope will be a series of highlights of some of the things that I own that I plan to have and to use for years to come.  For my first week, I want to talk about something that is not at all essential to most [...]

Introducing: UNDAD.COM

So I haven’t been around in awhile, I hope you can understand I was a little busy on returning home from the Tough Guy race, taking care of the wife in her last stages of pregnancy, along with introducing my first son into the world.
Cole has been all I had hoped he would be for [...]

Tough Guy 2010 Report – Part 3

Here is Part Three of my report on Tough Guy 2010 – Year of the Original Hero.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Below is a video taken by a crazy racer who strapped a camera to his head. It covers pretty much what I cover in parts 2 and 3, and by the look of [...]

Tough Guy 2010 Report – Part 2

Here is Part Two of my report on Tough Guy 2010 – Year of the Original Hero.
Part One is here.
Part Three is here.

I’m number 6532. Not at all looking happy to be there.
The Tiger
I was thrilled when I hit the first major obstacle, the “Tiger”. To me it meant that I was at least halfway [...]

Tough Guy 2010 report – Part 1

Here is Part One of my report on Tough Guy 2010 – Year of the Original Hero.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
I remembered to carb-load the night before. Orange juice doesn’t go with anything non-breakfast-y FYI

Race Day:
“the only people doing this thing are athletes and nut jobs…” this guy Jurgen from Holland said to [...]

In the UK Day 7 – Wolverhampton/Race Registration

Don’t mind the melodramatic tone I put forward in this video. I am not worried this will be my last video for this, but man, I am indeed scared after seeing the place up close. Most of the structures are a bit smaller than I expected, and a couple were shockingly more fearsome up close [...]

In the UK Day 6 – Taking a bath in Bath

When Christine and I were planning my itinerary, Bath was towards the end of my trip.  Now, my ADD affliction makes it hard to see pretty much anything through to the end, especially something like planning, something that Christine adores and that I loathe. I would like to think that by the time we reached [...]

In the UK Day 5 – Train Day (The choo choo kind)

I was excited about my “train day” through Wales. Getting up early after a good night’s sleep, I headed out to catch my 6:30am to Crewe.
Turns out, it was a 5:50am to Crewe. Undaunted, I waited patiently for the 8am train in the cold, listening to Hanz Zimmer’s score for the boxing show “The Contender” [...]

In the UK Day 4 – Inverness/Glasgow

Ok I promise there is no whisky in today’s update (Though there were Whisky Shops in both Inverness and Glasgow. I can’t get away from it) but there is beer.
I was happy to leave party hostel early this morning for what would be a very long travel day. I didn’t particularly mind making enough noise [...]

In the UK Day 3 – Edinburgh

I have to guiltily say that I barely scratched the surface of Edinburgh.
To be fair, one day is barely enough to make a dent in this unbelievably pretty town. I had meant to arrive via sleeper car between 6:30 and 7:10AM that morning, but upon discovering the sleeper cars cost 43£, I opted to head [...]