I see your shirt and raise you a cup. Got Covid, unemployed, Somehow got shingles.3yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/Wellthatsucks
[update] A decade ago I weighed over 300 pounds and couldn't run a mile. Sunday I finished my first (but not last) Ironman!9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/pics
We added Prague to the itinerary because the flight home was cheaper. The city is so beautiful it ended up being a highlight of the trip. This is Prague castle over-looking Charles bridge.6yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/travel
My daughter needed a nebulizer and I thought I'd dress her up as an astronaut to make it more pleasurable. It almost worked.7yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/daddit
The draft from this wooden stake created a huge block of snowdrift and ice.8yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/mildlyinteresting
I woke up at 5:15am and braved the hazardous trek along 395N to get this shot of the Jefferson at sunrise.7yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/washingtondc
[image] 9 years ago I weighed over 300 pounds and couldn't run a mile, this is me from September finishing the swim of my first half ironman. Sometimes it takes seeing where you were to realize how far you've come.10yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/GetMotivated
This was taken a few days before he was to be discharged home. He went into organ failure and died unexpectedly fighting the whole way5yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/lastimages
Hiking on the Appalachian Trail through New Hampshire. I'm trying to imagine what this looks like in the wet season.9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/CampingandHiking
[update] A decade ago I weighed over 300 pounds and couldn't run a mile. Sunday I finished my first (but not last) Ironman!9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/progresspics
The SPCA near my hometown of Charleston, SC was flooding and asked for anyone willing to provide temporary housing to the hundreds of animals in their shelter. This was the response. Sometimes humanity gets it right.9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/pics
A Sequoia tree under last month's full moon, Sequoia National Forest, California [OC] [1080x1620]6yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/ExposurePorn
SC governor Nikki Haley has closed all interstates around Columbia, SC. Judging from this picture I'd say that was a good idea. I-20 at 779yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/pics
Baltimore is using water powered conveyor belts to collect garbage from tributaries before it can get to the harbor.9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/pics
[HAFF] The Plantaris is a small muscle in your calf that is believed to be used by our ancestors to grip with their feet. It is so weak that it is considered functionally obsolete and arguments have been made that humans are evolving it out. It is absent in 7-10% of the population worldwide.10yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] today in 1861, confederate soldiers opened fire on the union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC. This was the official beginning of the Civil War, or as southerners call it: the War of Northern Aggression.9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
I see your well-organized tri gear and raise you my disaster zone. Camping before an Ironman is not recommended.9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/triathlon
DC now has these great 'service stations' around town with a water station, a bike stand with any tool you might need and a vending machine stocked with tubes, patch kits and miscellaneous tools. It makes the long ride that much more enjoyable!9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/triathlon
View of the porch outside my office. A bit too snowy to sit on the rockers...10yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/windowshots
my mother-in-law and her hiking buddy (aged 60) as they pass the half-way mark10yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/AppalachianTrail
I work in HomeHealth. Today I saw these terrifying things out of the corner of my eye. Just watching.9yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/creepy
I showed my neighbor T-Rex shower head from this sub a few months ago when he got a 3D printer. He gave me one today!6yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/ATBGE
