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Continue reading →: My blog had more traffic in January 2022 than all of 2021. How did I do it?The month of January was a good month for me. As I wrote the other day, I over-indexed on miles as part of my quest to walk or run 500 for the year. But another fortuitous thing has happened to start 2022. This very blog got more traffic in January…
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Continue reading →: Runner’s Blog: January stats on quest to 500 miles + first 5-miler in more than 3.5 yearsIt’s said by some that New Year’s resolutions are out the door by the third or fourth week of January because life starts to happen. This year one could almost mark the time with that. In Oklahoma, we had a big winter storm, and then the week after, we had huge…
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Continue reading →: Here’s how easy it was to get 4 at-home rapid COVID-19 testsWhile the first Omicron variant (there’s a subvariant starting to spread, so be watching or reading your local news) is starting to recede, it is starting to become easier to get at-home rapid COVID-19 tests. Thanks to the United States Postal Service. We’re the government, and we’re here to help.…
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Continue reading →: Life: The best professional advice I ever received came from a Harvard Business Review articleDo you know a Virgo? Their to-do lists and their Post-It notes adorn their desks, capturing every available moment in time to accomplish as much as possible every single day, all in the hopes of avoiding the inevitable self-loathing that happens should they not reach perfection. These people — and…
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Continue reading →: Digital: Will posting more often on TikTok result in growth?My chiropractor and I like to use a phrase relative to keeping my back healthy: motion is lotion. The idea is that the more I move, the more I *can* move. The better I feel. The healthier I get. In the digital world, my current obsessions are this blog and…
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Continue reading →: Health: Quick & VERY easy overnight steel cut oats recipeThe idea of eating oatmeal for breakfast, to me, has always been more appealing than eating it. I grew up on Quaker Oats instant oatmeal, and it’s ok. Doesn’t get me excited much. That changed with instant overnight oats, pre-produced probably by Quaker. Add milk, chocolate chips and whatever, and…
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Continue reading →: TikTok: ‘Buddy The Rat’ invades New York CityToday I was introduced to a man named Jonothon Lyons, who dresses up as a rat (Buddy The Rat), in New York, and crawls around in a crouched position, acting like a rat in public. In Manhattan. And I watched him do it live for an hour as I worked.…
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Continue reading →: What’s that catchy song on the Microsoft Surface commercial?If you watched the Sunday night NFL game between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, you may have seen this spot for Microsoft Surface: The commercial ‘resurfaced’ Monday night for the CFP championship game between Alabama and Georgia. Get it? ‘Resurfaced’? Intended. That my friends is “Don’t Lose Sight” from a…
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Continue reading →: Health: Quest To 500 Miles Update? So far, so goodMy health-related New Year’s Resolution this year is to walk 500 miles, a la The Proclaimers. To do that, I need to walk 1.37 miles per day or about 20-30 minutes. And that sure seems easy until the weekend drift hits. Do you know what weekend drift is? When you’re…
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Continue reading →: Sports: These days, I root for people more than I do for teamsAs the NFL season winds down another year in which the Cleveland Browns won’t win the Super Bowl, I wonder where Baker Mayfield will play next year. When he was drafted by the Browns No. 1 on April 26, 2018, I remember thinking, “Welp, the Browns are now my team.”…
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