Quinn’s Brain, aka QBrain

I would love to write a eulogy after the passing of my father, but it will be a long time before I can focus my energy on such a task.
Sorry father, no disrespect, but keyboards don’t work well when soaked in tears.

Posted on August 27th, 2008 under General. Comments: None

I have struggled to figure out what I want to do with my life. I have given it a lot of thought, and other then the abstract “become independently wealthy” I have failed to find a life goal.
So I must be playing the wrong game. Maybe a life goal is not what I [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2008 under General. Comments: None

As far as I am concerned they are. The swimming is done, except for the 10k, and the swimming is all I care about.
In four years time, I hope they take some steps to improve the swimming coverage. Rowdy Gaines either needs to accurately announce what is going on, or NBC [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2008 under Swimming. Comments: None

I follow the budgeting for dummies method. I save $X every month, and whatever is left over can safely be spent. That way I am sure to meet my savings goals, and I don’t have a lot of overhead keeping track of what I am spending my money on or if I am [...]

Posted on August 16th, 2008 under Finance. Comments: None

Swimmers come out of the wood work during the olympics. Once every four years, swimmers get a ton of press from the Olympics. So I am going to share the olympic swimmer blogs.
http://www.swimroom.com/?page_id=87
Mark Warkentin’s blog, he is the open water swimmer, is quite entertaining. Since he is an open water swimmer, his [...]

Posted on August 10th, 2008 under Swimming. Comments: None

We went to the Restaurant Week Preview dinner at Chamberlain’s Fish Market last night with my mother and her husband. Dinner was about twice as good as I expected and the wine pairings were not quite as good as I expected.
Chamberlain’s is easy to get to in Addison and does not funnel everyone into [...]

Posted on August 10th, 2008 under Food. Comments: None

I have noticed that I am much happier in general now then I can ever remember being. Two major contributions are obviously my enjoyment of work and my completion of my degree.
First work. I don’t love my job, but I don’t dread Mondays in the least, and when someone calls me in the [...]

Posted on August 7th, 2008 under General. Comments: None

This weekend I bought a foam roller. I had read about foam rollers for a while in different workout blogs and fitness publications, but I had no idea what they were. Only that foam rollers were used for self message. This weekend I finally broke down and looked them up, and foam [...]

Posted on August 5th, 2008 under Swimming. Comments: None

The title says it all. What I have learned today, is that soft size is not hard size.
The nuggets of wisdom that are acquired during the course of a day are fascinating.

Posted on August 5th, 2008 under General. Comments: None