Countdown to Tübingen

proof that the postal system works, at least some of the time.

There is a list of increasingly encouraging things supporters can do to make me feel awesome: respond to an email newsletter, call me on Skype (username: brownlowdown), mention me on their website, send me peanut butter, and fly to Germany to spend a week with me at work. More on the last thing later. This is about the third.

I have always been an avid athlete. So while I was support-raising, I spent afternoons down at Crossfit North Atlanta, a garage gym that makes itself unique by putting a large emphasis on the community of members. With the exception of a couple days where the extremity of the workouts induced vomitting, it was a fantastic, vomit-free experience – I got in shape, and I made a lot of friends from all ’round Atlanta. And CFNA supports Globalscope Germany.

I’m pleased as punch that six months after leaving the gym, they gave me a shout-out on their website. Thanks a ton, Travis and gang – I still practice the Olympic lifts I learned from you guys. Except dead lifts. I hate dead lifts.