Year: 2022
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Road Trip
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I’m pondering taking some time off from work and driving back to New London Connecticut to do some site-seeing and reminiscing. It’s a mere 2000 miles, each way; easy if…
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Chryslerpunk
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Back in the 80’s cars were very analog; carburetors and chokes and points and manual steering and mechanical everything including the windows. Back then the Lamborghini Countach, the space-age dream…
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More old iPhones
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It has been a while since my last Old Apple Crap post, so here’s a new one. After my original iPhone, I migrated to a 3GS. Unfortunately the 3GS, being…
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Tags and Title
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So the notice regarding the county having my title work done came in a few weeks back, so I set up an appointment at the DMV to get my old…
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There and Back
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So after some discussion yesterday morning, I sent my roommate and his relatives off to Rampart Range Road in his jeep while I enjoyed a quiet day at the house…
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Out and About
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Today my roommate’s sister and her husband arrive from out of state for a short visit. I’ve been volunteered to take the lot for a tour up in the mountains…
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Cheap
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Given the insanity in the world right now with spiking energy costs, ill-conceived federal spending, and generally piss-poor state government timing, I’m once again cutting a lot of my usual…
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Mayo
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I despise mayonnaise, and that goes double for the “Better Living Through Modern Chemistry” liquid fat analog that passes for mayo at a fast food place. So, you can imagine…
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Xanth
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I guess it was about 1980 or so, on one of my routine trips to the local book store on Main Street in Longmont, that I spotted my first Xanth…
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300
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For about a year now, the local Chrysler dealership has been pestering me to come buy this 300 sedan they’ve had on the lot since fall of last year; it’s…
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Second Life
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A quick video walkthrough of my latest sim build; Selentia. This is my personal hidey-hole in Second Life. My roommate owns the sim next door, and I themed that one…
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Eco
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My neighborhood has both a regular trash service and a recycling service, each with a different can. I generate so little trash that I don’t really participate… I mean, by…
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I’ve Seen All Good People
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Yesterday I posted about the Pink Floyd show I saw in 1994, which was notable as being the last Pink Floyd tour ever. A few years prior to this I…
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Division Bell
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It is June 18th, 1994, just after sunset… I’m standing in a throng of 69,788 people on the field of Mile High Stadium; the scent of pot thickly fills the…
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Red Barchetta
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I’m sitting here at work, working (as one tends to do at work), and I’m playing my ‘old man’ music… Today is a selection of old Rush from the recent…