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Lazy Sunday Organization
My goals initially today were to clean up the garage and tune up Kate’s bike. After breakfast I was ready to spend the day on the couch watching movies. Fortunately the lack of anything worth watching got me back into action with my initial goals. The main mission today was to get Kate’s bike working…
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Great day for a bike ride
It was wonderful weather for a bike ride today. I should have worn warmer gloves but I made it home in time to jump in the hot tub. It had been a few weeks since our last ride so we took it easy and just went into Mancos for coffee and a cherry tart. Not…
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Diving into Indoor Rowing
Just before Christmas I got an indoor rowing machine. The goal of getting the rower was to give me a way to exercise aerobically during the winter months. My left knee has no meniscus since it was removed surgically 4 years ago. This means that running is over for me, unless I want to accelerate…
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Review: Counterpart (TV Series)
What if there was a door to a parallel universe that you could visit just by walking through it? What would happen if you met yourself in that parallel world? Would you get along, or would you feel threatened/jealous/envious/afraid? Now consider that everyone else in your world has a double in the other world and…
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Review: Sid Meier’s Memoir!
For the amount of time I have spent playing Civilization and its various sequels and offshoots I had to listen to Sid Meier’s Memoir!. For nostalgia’s sake it was fascinating to learn how Sid had become a games developer and then one of the greatest of all time. My other reason for listening to this…
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Chillin at the Maya ruins in Piedras Negras
During our rafting trip on the Usumacinta we spent 2 nights at a Maya ruin known as Piedras Negras. These ruins are only accessible by boat and our guide estimates that at most 200 people a year visit them. We spent an entire day camping at the site and were given an extensive tour by…
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Editing Video and staying sane
One of the main services I offered customers when I had a company was short form Youtube videos. This was in 2010 and Youtube had been around a few years but was still just catching on. I couldn’t get my clients to write blog posts but I could get them to sit still for a…
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One extreme to another
We got back home on Friday from the Mexican jungle and today we spent the day skiing and snowboarding. If you are going to make the most of things then why not take it as far as you can? The drive to Telluride is about an hour and a half from our house. So we…
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Layover Day
When we were halfway through the river trip in Mexico we had a Layover Day. On Layover Day no rafting happens and you get kinda a day off. Sure you still have an assigned job to help with dinner, or dishes, or water, etc but you get to leave your camp setup for two nights…
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Back Home
We flew into Salt Lake City last night from Mexico and opted to get a hotel room rather than start the 6 hour drive home to Mancos. We got up around 6am this morning, found coffee and started the drive. There was some snow in the forecast and the roads were icy in places. We…