Year: 2025
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Another thousand miles
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The Hellcat ticked over 31,000 miles on the way back from the office today… Ignore the low tire pressure warning – it was literally two degrees above an ice cube…
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Old Habits…
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Had an interesting encounter the other day at work – had an HVAC guy in doing some PMs on the building boiler and server room A/C, and as I walked…
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Good old days…
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Here at the office I’m still cleaning out parts of the building that haven’t seen human habitation since 2020… And today’s bit of entertainment is powering up a few antiques…
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Box Meals
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Last year I briefly tried out “Factor“, a meal delivery service, and after the first few meals wasn’t too impressed. The meals wound up costing about $15-18 each, and just…
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HellCosts…
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I get asked fairly often how much it costs to daily drive a Challenger Hellcat – and today I have some gas costs for you. I set up the Shell…
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TRON
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Went and saw Tron: Ares yesterday. Normally I don’t go to the theater as it’s too expensive and contains too many people, but I discovered that my local theater (AMC…
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AI “Art”
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The two primary arguments I see against AI are “trained on other people’s work” and “uses too much electricity” – with a third bonus point for “artists get paid to…
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Server Artifacts
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Still going through the accumulated tech-junk here at work and getting the e-cycler to come get it… Three full pallets of old computers and monitors are gone – roughly 5000…
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2025 Colorado British Motoring Conclave
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I’ve mentioned previously that my CFO has a Lotus Emira. Well, after relentless pestering he finally joined the local Lotus club… The day after joining, he went on a club…
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Summer’s Ending Soon
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[Verse 1]What if there’s no answerTo the questions that keep us up at nightIt’s just a fork in the roadAnd no matter where you goThere you are againFind a way…
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Amature Hour
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Henceforth, Rush Hour will be known as Amateur Hour. I only bring this up because this morning someone in your typical white shitbox van on temp tags expired by like…
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Labor Day ’25
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So, I got Labor Day off this year… Labor Day is generally a grilling day full of BBQ, brats, and beer – but I don’t have anything to BBQ and…
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Cold hard cash
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Back in ’99 I did some globe-trotting for work… In May I was in England for a couple of weeks. And then I jetted off to Amsterdam for a couple…
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Improvement…
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Just had my groceries for the next week delivered – lunch meat and cheese, buns, four breakfast bowls, four breakfast burritos, a half-gallon of orange juice, four spicy chicken sandwiches,…
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If you don’t like the weather…
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Wait a minute, it’ll change. Colorado has some really rapid weather shifts, and today it went from nice and sunny to thunderstorms and hail in like two minutes flat. I…
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Today’s view from the guest room
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My guest room’s windows face west, and the house sits on a ridge looking over Denver – so the view from those windows overlooks the forest outside my front door,…
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30,000 miles
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I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 455 days ago. So I’m averaging 11.42 miles a day… Still a daily driver. I did add about…
