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“You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette…but you won’t get any sleep at all if you sleep with a redhead.”


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Starting the long commute from pine trees to cacti


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow will tour together this summer, but no Fortune Bay stop (Summerfest, July 3, is the closest)


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Guess I better get some onion rings from Porky’s tomorrow


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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I’m not a code monkey by any stretch, but damn this is some powerful stuff


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Pace code appears to be working on the new 7 Minute Miles run log


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Sam the bald eagle was on his perch this morning on Hwy 77 – that makes four days in a row


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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One slight wrench due to weird WordPress/PHP issue, but my old school code was fine. Now just need to calc pace


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Maybe there is hope for me – first stab at PHP/MySQL custom coding in years worked right away with no errors


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Fast and reliable internet access is something you really take for granted until you go somewhere without it


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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I *love* that Julie Nelson has a picture of her with Boba Fett on her website


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Ran 10K on Echo Point


@kingsbury tweeted March 31, 2011


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Just got invited to a party at Alice Cooperstown, “Where Jocks & Rock Meet”


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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Summer/Fall concerts at Fortune Bay confirmed: John Fogerty, Montgomery Gentry, ZZ Top/Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent and ThundHerStruck


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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This would be fun too


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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Peter Gabriel at Red Rocks? That wouldn’t suck


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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It’s almost 2PM and this is the longest I’ve been in my office all day


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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Finally got some sleep, but also just hit snooze for two straight hours


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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Thanks to our hospitality director, discovered I can watch Wild games on FSN in our data center. Next: run cable to my office b4 season ends


@kingsbury tweeted March 30, 2011


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What? A “new” Union South at UW-Madison? Blasphemy!


@kingsbury tweeted March 29, 2011


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Forecast tomorrow calls for sun, no wind and 40F – think I’ll take a day off from running today and hit Echo Point again tomorrow


@kingsbury tweeted March 29, 2011


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Instant gratification


@kingsbury tweeted March 29, 2011


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Screw it, I need some chicken wild rice soup *right now*


@kingsbury tweeted March 29, 2011


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7 Minute Miles Turns Five

Posted March 29, 2011

The oldest post on 7 Minute Miles was written five years ago tomorrow. I’ll skip the usual “time flies” references and all that – just glad to still be around to publish anything…

A lot has changed in my life during this timeframe, but the look of this site has not. I was kicking around the idea that I should write a new theme and incorporate all of the new features that WordPress has added over the years, but I’m both lazy and a slow learner. In the end, I decided to mostly keep things the way they’ve been, but did tidy up the joint a little:

  • Added new background image
  • De-cluttered the title bar and re-named some links
  • Modified the color scheme a bit and cleaned up the style sheet
  • Removed the sidebar and created a new sub-footer section
  • New social media and contact buttons in the sub-footer
  • Moved the bucket list items to the footer area
  • Upgraded the photo gallery to the latest version
  • De-activated and removed unused plugins (and added some new ones)
  • Adding a new running log section (not quite ready yet)
  • Re-writing the about section and merging it with the old bio and fetish sections (in progress)

I’ve been thinking a lot about how personal web sites fit in with the current social media landscape and decided I’ll keep this site as my online home base and have Twitter continue to feed the home page with short updates. When I do write the occasional longer post here, Twitter and Facebook will announce those posts automatically. And I still like the concept of owning the box (and the contents) and not worrying about the (sometimes) arbitrary policy changes of other companies. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all serve various purposes for me, though, so they will continue to stay in the picture (despite my occasional idiot freakouts).

A few stats as of today: 919 posts, 95 pages, 182 approved comments (78,255 blocked spam comments), 39,194 unique visitors in 2010 (who viewed 400,295 pages).


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Score: my work golf tournament Sunday is at #85 on Golfweek’s Top 100 modern courses (Saguaro 18 at We-Ko-Pa Golf Club)


@kingsbury tweeted March 29, 2011


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