Summer of Bean

Mr. Costanza. ..your legs have sustained extensive trauma. Apparently your body was in the state of advanced atrophy, due to a period of extreme inactivity.
But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck, I think there’s a good chance you may, one day, walk again.
Ah, such high hopes for the summer. [...]

The light posting the last week or so has been due to my vacation schedule.  Every year I take July 6th through 9th off to help run the End of the Trail tournament down in Oregon City.  I’ve been doing this off and on now since high school.  Some people would go crazy sitting in [...]

I don’t remember my dreams very often and when I do, I rarely write them down or ponder them.  I had one this morning which seems pregnant with meaning, but what?
Dig:
I’m at the casino and sit down at the slot machine.  On my first pull I win $1,000.  I turn to my friend (Pete?) and [...]

It’s been almost a month now since the night I woke up gasping for air, my heart racing.  It happens every now and then and let me tell you, it’s a scary thing.  It’s sleep apnea and it freaking sucks.
I didn’t know it at the time, but my first real experience with it was when [...]

 
It seems a lot longer than two years since I declared the last Summer of Bean.  A lot has happened in that time.  I read The Dip and decided to try and live it.  I left a relatively stable job and struck out on my own to see what that felt like for a while. [...]