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I can't believe my daughter is graduation from High School this weekend. I will travel to graduation with mixed emotions. While I split with her mother when she was barely one year old we have maintained quite a relationship over the years. I am proud, excited, saddened, exillerated and a bit depressed at the thought that my "little girl" is now really quite a young woman. Well, maybe I should look at it as a grand new chapter in both or our lives. And there is still little brother Rad who does live with me. :-)

Well, there really aren't many settings here with Opera, but I will just plunge into it anyway. Today is my birthday, that Wife and daughter didn't remember. Shouldn't have been a big deal as I have had more than my share of birthdays, but it was a big deal. I did do a three mile run and left work a bit early, so all was not lost. Well, here's to 47 years on the planet. :-)

I am starting now once again to pump it up. I have been too engrossed in other things to work out consistently, but now it the time. I really haven't done "bad" in quite a while, but I am not at nearly the level I would like to be. Yes, I am older and a bit slower, but that damn sure doesn't mean I can't get better. Oh, and by the way, Ubuntu Linux rocks!

Wow, I must get off the computer. I have recently installed Ubuntu Linux and love it. Problem is that I find myself continually looking for more things to tweak. Just got my Epson Perfection3490 installed and finally consider this project together. Now for getting a life. This weekend is "guys weekend". That is the build up I give the four year old when his mother is out of town. We will start the evening after picking him up from school with "Chineese". This is our favorite and not his mothers. We will probably rent a movie and tomorrow go to the Y. I will definately spend quality time with him and we will have a great weekend. I need to get physical. I will commit to at least three running days a week for the month and increase to four next month. I slowed down a bit this week, but of course I had some physical ailments as "excuses". Anyway up with Ubuntu and up with exercise. Let's see what the guy's weekend will bring.

My latest passion these days is Ubuntu Linux. I have just about fully converted from using Micorosoft at all to using this Linux Distro exclusivly as my operating system of choice. I really love this package enough to try and get involved and support its distribution and enhancements in the future. Ubuntu is an African word for "Humanity to others". This is a totally free package that includes operation system and software for daily computer tasks. I highly recommend it.

Well, the new year is moving right along. Been sick for a week, but better now. While I was planning on running a half marathon, I must change the plan for now. Wife will be out of town the planned weekend leaving me with the four year old. Oh well, may not really have been a good idea anyway. Work is up and down. Not sure that I want to be doing quality assurance for concrete from now on. Well, we will see what happens.

Yep, that's right, 13.1 miles. Decided to do the half at the Country Music Marathon in Nashville, TN. The run will be end of April so I should have plenty of time to prepare. I am not going to try and smoke it, just finish it. Off to a decent start this year running so far. I am just going to slowly build up for the run. Ran four days last week, just 12.5 miles total, but that is the way I want to start. I may only run three days a week for the rest of this month to make sure I am starting to get a good base down and avoid injury. Main thing is to do this for the long haul.

Well, to begin a new year with a fresh perspective and a clear head! Happy New Years to all and a wish for new wonders to fill your worlds. I would hope that we will finally come to some peace in the middle east and learn to keep our meddling hands out of it. I hope to reach a level of fitness that I haven't had since the 90's. While I am fit I could still find room for improvement. I hope that I can find more spiritual clues in my life and the connectedness of all. Above all, I hope to eat healthy foods that are lower on the food chain and consume less materially than in past. Above all I hope to live simply so that others might simply live and give back to my fellow man more than I receive. Happy New Year from the Fowlers.

Wow, what a year it has been. I am truly glad that I will spend a sober relaxing New Years Eve with my family. While I haven't upheld my "totfit" attitude near 100% of the time this year, I have made great progress and have done fairly well. I am looking forward to having an even better 2006. Just about all areas of my life are going superbly at the moment. I guess I am still looking for further insight and fullness in these areas, but they are great nonetheless. I wish all a safe eve and a wonderful and fullfilling new year.

Support our troops. Bring them home

Once again it has been a while since I have written here. Main goal for tomorrow is to get up and run. Think I will go to the gym after work and run on the treadmill. Two times this week and a minimum of three times a week for the rest of the year. Life is good and my spirituality is now beginning to incorporate Christianity. Where this will lead I am not sure, but mostly I am seeking to maintain mind, body, and spritual balance.

Well, all is well in Nashville with the Fowlers. Life is truly good. Sometimes things move a little slowly, but slow I can handle. I am grateful that I am fit and we are doing well. The one thing I would like to begin doing is writing a little more. I know that as things go if I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and point myself in the right direction then life will always progress in a positive flow. Currently, fall soccer season for 4yo Radnor is in the works. Coaching 3 and 4 year olds is a hoot. It is really a bit like herding cats. While there are certainly big contributions one could make in the world, I will at least try and make small ones toward a collective good. Well, really just rambling now, rolling along.

Life is good.

Wow, just watched the Emperor's Club. It was truly a thought provoking moview. Is anyone these days truly that moral. It really gives me some thoughts as to just what I want to show my young son as far as moral courage and honesty. This thinking is so far from my days past of running from everything drunk. I will get through and find out what total fitness truly is and is not and just where moral courage and honesty fits in. Yes, these traits are most certainly a part of fitness.

Been a little blue lately. Don't know if it is that I am getting older, unsatisfied with my job, or it is just an after shot of several months of sobriety and a what next feeling. I know one thing the summer heat is really getting to me at work. I am not sure that I want to work another day in the shop, not sure what I want to do. On a positive note, today was Rad's first day of school. It is hard to believe that we have a 4 yo boy at 46. Life is good though, just a little flat ate the moment.

Well, what to do on this fine Sunday in Nashville, TN. The plan at first was a nice long tandem ride pulling our son in a trailer, but once again it looks like the wife is backing out, "cause she has to ge some work done." Well, better her than me. I am going to do something fun!

Open Eyes, Open Heart, Open Mind, Feeling Fine Great run this afternoon. Things are really looking up in the fitness department and life in general for that matter. Life is so good I just can't stand it. Well, got to go for now. boog si efil

Home alone with the almost 4yo terror named Rad. Mom is in Macon, GA for the weekend in further pursuit of her Doctorate, upon which she will be nicknamed "Dr. Love", instead of her current title of just "Love". Didn't get to run today as I didn't want to leave Rad home alone. Will make my run in the morning. Todays event is primarily the pool. We have both cleaned up our respective messes, so I may surprise Rad with attending the new Batman movie. Yes, just a steady tour through life at the moment. All is well.

Today will most likely be a very slowwww day at work. I do hope it will be a little slow anyway. Going to get home and run at least 3 miles today maybe a bit more. My major home task will be to straighten the closet in my wife's bathroom. Wifey is not a whole lot of help around the house these days what with principaling an inner city elementary school and working on her Doctorate. Leaves me a lot of time to take care or our almost 4yo son, keeping him out of the way. Seems the house stays typically strewed no matter what. Course my energy level is up and down at times as a middle aged parent (46). Oh well, enough whining. It should be a beautiful day here.