Bit of a hiatus this week as I traveled to Belgium, Germany, and Italy for work. Interesting to see how focused on the US election Europeans are, mostly holding their breath, waiting for us to do the right thing and elect Barack Obama. Nobody over there that I spoke has anything but the highest admiration for him and complete puzzlement […]

We’re back from our trip to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Much fun was had, many beers were drank and four years of wedded bliss were celebrated. We spent the evening of our anniversary drinking the same sparkling wine (“Talismon“) from L. Mawby winery that we served at our reception while lying on the beach where we had the […]

I’m off to go backpacking in the Nordhouse Dunes National Wilderness Area for a few days with my son before he heads off to his freshman year in college. After that it’s a few days with my wife in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Then it’s back home to put our noses to the grindstone to get Senator Barack […]

Speaking of sexy ladies, I present Mrs. E: Isn’t she just the cutest and sexiest thing evah? I’m just sayin’…

Hah! I knew it!!! Vegetarians Live LongerThe battle has long been waged, and will certainly continue in spite of this study. Are humans designed/evolved to eat everything and at risk of malnutrition as vegetarians? Or is vegetarianism the healthy and ethical choice? The most impressive data arises from a study of 1904 vegetarians over 21 years by the German Cancer […]

Well, having jumped the sinking ship that is efx2blogs.com, I find myself landed here and managed to get my blog looking pretty familiar now. I’ve been able to duplicate the look pretty closely and I’m happy with that. I’m having some issues with the widget layout thing because (I think) the template I used has some flaws in it. But […]