Outside the Rat Race

Over the Christmas holiday my mom let me borrow Charlie's Victory to read. I explained to her that I rarely read actual paper books (pr...

Last weekend we spent a night on the coast . It was extremely relaxing. One of the activities we (well, Jessi) did was puzzle. Jessi had pr...

At Christmas Jessi gave me a present of a one night stay at a bed and breakfast and we decided to "spend" it this weekend at the ...

Earlier I shared about earning my blue belt in jiu jitsu . You can read about it here . Now I have video to go along with it. I put togeth...

This last month I officially migrated over to Wells Fargo for most of my banking needs with Jessi. You see, back in December I got a nice le...

I know, I know, I'm a little late to the party, but I'm finally here. I'm officially starting to grow out my beard for the mon...

James, Rylan (Black Belt), David, Amber (Instructor), Mike (Instructor) One of my 2011 goals was to earn my blue belt in jiu jitsu . I...

I was unable to participate in jiu jitsu yesterday and so took the opportunity to capture some video of David rolling. I know lots of you a...

January had one theme with three activities for me: Jiu Jitsu training, working for HP, and studying for my property management license all ...

LinkedIn launched and pretty cool experimental feature showing the power of the data they collect called InMaps . The above picture is what...

This weekend Jessi and I watched a jiu jitsu tournament with some friends ( David & his kids, and Pat ) at the Oregon State Fairground...

As I've talked about, Jessi and I have a g oal of running a half-marathon this year . It'll be a lot of fun, but also a lot of work....

Here we are in 2011. For us, 2010 was very busy and full of a lot of excitement. Just purchasing a property probably contributed to that fe...

2010 was a busy year for us. We had just purchased our duplex , fixed up one side and rented it out. I managed to listen to a ton of books...

I am a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell. The first book of his I read was The Tipping Point and it was fantastic. I really like the way he tells...

Merry Christmas! I hope tomorrow is a day filled with joy and peace. My mom and brother are in Oregon visiting us this year. I can already t...

I came across this book while listening to a podcast called TWiT (This Week in Tech), which was talking about an article on Farmville, whic...

Last week I got to visit Singapore for work. This was my first time in Asia. As is usually the case, this was planned only a few weeks befo...

My brother recently installed Microsoft Access on his computer and was asking me what my skill level was at using it (presumably so he could...

This Thanksgiving Jessi and I decided not to travel anywhere. Come to think of it... I don't think we travelled last year either... int...