bren : blog

I always think I’m not much of a goal setter, but then I keep various little mental benchmarks in my head. Sometimes I talk about ‘em, but mostly not. Might as well mention the current goal(s)…
A while ago I was able to convince some friends to plan a climb on Mt. St. Helens with me. [...]

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Tru got to stay up for New Year’s Eve, so to kill some time we messed around with stop motion animations. Have a look!

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My (very sweet) sister-in-law, with whom I apparently disagree mightily about both politics and religion, has a nice post-election blog posting.
I considered responding with a blog post of my own, but ended up just dropping a comment in on her post. My comment is so long I probably should’ve made it into it’s own post. [...]

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I looked for a McCain-based version to do an apples to apples comparison, but it doesn’t appear that they’ve put one out. If you know of a McCain branded calculator similar to this, let me know and I’ll slap it up here too.

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(Advent Conspiracy)

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I’ve been up King’s Mountain before. This time though, I went with an old friend, Del, and Truman (and Frodo). We took it slow, but it was super fun, and Tru did great!
Truman wanted to carry my Camelbak for a while, so he carried it from just below the summit ridge up to the summit. [...]

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How can I not post this?

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Comedy gold:

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