Category: Blog
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Podcasting: One Year Later
I did not want to start a podcast. I did not want to start another project and have it fail. I did not want to start something else and not have it pay off, literally. I did not want to think of marketing it or being “that podcast” or finding people to interview and, least…
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Picking up Russian (again)
These books have been sitting in my apartment since I moved in and I’ve hardly had time to look at them. Actually, it wasn’t the time, it was the ability to look at them and spend the time to read and gain something from them. I bought these books when I was traversing through Russia…
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Prepping for HSK 4 test on May 15th
So it’s official: I will write the HSK 4 test on May 15th here in Beijing. I need 60% to pass but there is no requirement to do so in order to move on. Even if I fail, I could take the HSK 5 test if I wanted to. However, this is a goal and…
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Eleven years a writer
Another year, another anniversary as I’ve now reached eleven years of writing online. Here’s the very first post I made: That was it. Eleven years on the tally is now at 449 posts: One of the original ideas I had when I started blogging some eleven years ago was to keep track of all of…
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The 4x4x48 – The David Goggins Challenge
So I did something this past weekend that I’ve never done before: I ran an ultramarathon. Not all in one go, of course, but I was running four miles every four hours for forty eight hours. Why those numbers? The idea comes from David Goggins, a former Navy SEAL, who runs ultramarathons in support of…