Category: adventures
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Taking the plunge
Well, Sunday was my last night driving pizza. It marks a number of milestones for me. It’s the first time I’ve left a job and not burned the bridge behind me. Certainly we’ve all done irresponsible stuff, and that’s always been my thing. I put in proper notice, worked every last hour, and left with…
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Been a minute
Sometimes life intervenes, doesn’t it? I’ve been a busy beaver. So, for the first time in my life, I attended a business meeting, relating to my at-home job. I was nervous, quite nervous as this was way out of my wheelhouse, like, Antarctica. I’m developing software for a company, and that day I met the…
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Chambers Lake
I love this place. It’s a largely artificial lake at about 9000 feet elevation. Even in the summer, it’s nice and cool up here. It’s crystal clear, cold water. But then 2020 came, and like everything else that year that sucked, this fire happened. As it were, I had a trip scheduled to Steamboat Springs,…
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Road Trip!
So, Mom and I took a road trip, a little 3-day trip to Glenwood Springs. For her, it’s some distant relatives that live up there. For me, it’s all about the hot springs. Here’s their webcam, that you can move around even! Cool mural of what Glenwood looked like back in the day. The river…
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Mountain Day
Yesterday, me and the neighbor drove up to the antenna farm, since that’s our favorite spot. You’ve seen the pictures, the 70-mile view from there is simply undeniable. We go up there with various high-powered optics, and see what we can see. I was able to see Interstate 80, near Buford, WY I have one…
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More Weirdness about Town
I’m pretty sure I’d ruin some laundry were I to see something like this riding my bumper. I couldn’t find the owner, but this is pretty unique, I think. When I was a high-schooler, we had the Fort Collins Beaver Patrol that used to ride the main drag in trucks like these, but smaller Toyotas…
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Labor Day
Well, I didn’t labor, that’s for sure. No, a friend had something to celebrate, so we barbecued up here. I’ve known this guy 30 years, and never knew he knew his way around the grill. We also took a trip up to the tower farm, which he’d never seen before, and he was completely awed…
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Chicken!
It’s yet another form of dickdom. And not the kind you eat, either. No, I’m talking about the game, and when you think about it, we play ‘chicken’ pretty much daily in one form or another. In the store, on the road, pretty much everywhere. You can see two guys make the eye contact, as…
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More mountaintop fun
So we took a trip up to the antenna farm yesterday. We like it for differing but overlapping reasons. I’m interested in the electronics, he likes the spectacular view from the hill. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of talking with one of the transmitter engineers, who was kind enough to let me pick his brain…
The Night Driver 