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On Saturday I climbed 37 stories of the One America building with a Flip Camera in my left hand to capture all the coughing and hyperventilating. You can view my video blog about the race above. If you have dial-up or can’t discreetly watch videos at work, I will spoil the ending for you: I got to the top without keeling over. We were also one of the top 4 fundraisers for the event, an honor for which I won a mug. Instead of dividing it into 50 little pieces and mailing it to all my sponsors, I will let you have a sip from it if we ever run into each other.

You can view pictures of the event taken by The Indianapolis Star here. I’m not sure what my official time was because, quite frankly, the official race site sucks giant donkey balls. (Yes, that is my professional opinion.) I think I got in at just under 14 minutes. The fastest people did it in just under 4 minutes, which make me wonder if [...]

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It’s a new year, so I thought I’d try something new: a video blog. Yes, that is me in front of my new lined empire silk curtains, only $10 a panel from Big Lots. (Thank you Linens-N-Things for going out of business!) Also note, I am aware that I refer to the Julian calendar in the video and I am also aware that most of the world uses the Gregorian calendar. For those of you who think I made a silly error that I was too lazy to dub out or to reshoot the video to correct, you are totally and completely wrong. I am a rebel who uses the Julian calendar and I wish you a happy day on this, the first of Ianuarius 2009.

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