More people are going to school for longer
Access to the internet is increasing
Solar power is getting cheaper
Beer consumption going up ??? 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
details on vox
(via Bill Gates)
Category: health & fitness
New Year at the Adlards
For the 3rd year in a row I crashed the New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Adlards in northern Idaho.
For a change, they got a LOT of snow this season.
Their log cabin in the woods looks like one of those Christmas shops. Very festive.
Here’s where Dave works online. 🙂
Dave got a new barbecue for Christmas. Whoop whoop!
Delaney got new snowshoes.
And there’s a new playhouse in the back yard.
The no excuses 10km run went well for me again.
I finished 2nd behind Andy this year, just ahead of Dr. Jeni, my best finish ever.
Andy put on a burst of speed uphill to finish first. Something was motivating him. I can’t imagine what he was thinking about.
Thanks to Dave, Lisa and 5yr-old Delaney for hosting. 🙂
on Obamacare …
Here’s the good news.
Number of Uninsured Americans Near Historic Low
Just 11.3 percent of Americans were uninsured in the second quarter …
But that progress has come at great cost. Sen. Tom Harkin, one of the co-authors of the Affordable Care Act, now thinks Democrats may have been better off not passing it at all and holding out for a better bill.
It’s a mixed legacy.
KathmanFlu
I’m sick again in Kathmandu. 😦 Everyone tourist gets sick here, actually.
Catching up on the interwebs.
___ original post from Nov 2009:
I’ve always exalted the mystical, magical capital of Nepal.
Sadly, fact is, it’s a hellhole.
Everyone in the polluted city is sick. Sick with respiratory problems. And worse.
The rivers are trashed. I hear that cremations are being discouraged, but there are still corpses in the water.
Everyone you meet is coughing, horking and spitting. The valley holds air pollution.
Tap water makes people sick. There are electrical brown outs almost every night. Can’t they generate hydro-electricity in the Himalayas?
I studied the trash removal system. There is one, actually. But it’s hopelessly bad.
As in India, best case scenario is to feed your paper to a sacred cow.
The only “progress” I can see over the past 11yrs is that the first KFC / Pizza Hut just opened. Is that progress?
I want to blame the Mayor for not improving this city … but Wikipedia tells me there is no mayor of Kathmandu at the moment.
Why am I not surprised.
Retrosi on Simplicity
‘A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.’ ~Henry David Thoreau
… what would happen if I uncluttered my life.
A life uncluttered by most of the things people fill their lives with, and left with space for what really matters. A life that isn’t constant busy-ness and rushing, but contemplation and creation, connection with people I love and time for nature and activity.
That doesn’t mean I have zero clutter and zero complications: I’m a part of the world, not a secluded monk. I have possessions, electronics, distractions, and occasional busy-ness. I just would reduce it to make space for things of more importance. …
That’s from a Gymnastics friend of mine, Tony Retrosi.
He’s preaching to the converted in my case. 🙂
One point in that post hit home more than any other:
• Your attention is your most valuable possession. Give it as a gift to the people you love most, not a bunch of clowns on the Internet. Give it to the work that matters most, not distractions. …
Got it.
bus to Syabrubesi, Nepal
7-9hrs of crumbling mountain roads today.
Wish me luck. 😦
missing Glen Campbell
The Country Music Hall of Fame member … was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2011
… video for the final song he’ll ever record — “I’m Not Gonna Miss You.” It was recorded in 2013 …
Click PLAY or watch it on VEVO.
Because of the progression of the disease, the 78-year-old Campbell was admitted to a special care facility in Nashville in April. …
Are we no closer to solving Alzheimer’s? 😦
running Nanning, China
Most mornings I jog along the river just outside the Green Forest hostel.
Folks are out dancing, doing Tai Chi, walking backwards, walking while clapping hands, swimming, stretching. Morning exercise outdoors is a great Chinese tradition. There are fitness playgrounds everywhere.
Striking is the contrast between the traditional and modern.
