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Winding down the year…
Welp, here we are — December 2020. TDay is now firmly behind us, Christmas is still ahead of us, and the long shadows of winter sunshine makes for short days…
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Post TDay Post
My four days off went better than they usually do in that I actually took four days off. I was technically at work until about midnight on Wednesday working out…
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Lockdown Update
As of Friday we’re back to March lockdown levels: Just when things were starting to feel ‘normal’ again… And in case that wasn’t enough, this morning at 9am we all…
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Holiday via UPS
While I hear that celebrating Thanksgiving is frowned upon these days for reasons ranging from ‘catching a case of the zombies via direct eye contact with someone’ to ‘some people…
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Chef Me…
I don’t really “cook” all that much outside of microwaving stuff, mostly because I have a roommate who kind of leaves the kitchen in a shambles all the time and…
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View from the roof
Had to go up on the roof to check on the fiber switch for the outside cameras, so here’s I-225 looking south on this snowy Monday…
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Winter Wonderland
It snowed all night and in fact is still snowing right now, which made the drive into work fairly interesting. Not that the Murano has any issue in the snow,…
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Right on schedule
It’s pretty typical here in Colorado that the first real snow happens right about halloween — this year is no different. I’m a big fan of winter, so to celebrate…
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Notes from the Edge
Just a couple of photos I thought were interesting. The first is something of an alert: I stopped in at the local Carl’s Jr. for breakfast (they make amazing breakfast…
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The hub of the grub
For being so bleeding-edge technologically, I’m a bit of a Cro-Magnon when it comes to trendy high-tech gig-economy services. And accordingly today was my first use of “GrubHub” which has…
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Movies
It was May in 1980 when the sequel to Star Wars was released; The Empire Strikes Back. I remember standing in line for the theater there in Longmont with my…
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Supplies
Some of those supplies I mentioned a few entries back came in today… The first was the two one-week boxes of rations. As long as I have water, I have…
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The sounds of silence…
I’ve had tinnitus most of my life. It all started with a trip to a HamFest with my parents. A HamFest is essentially an organized garage sale for radio nerds,…
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It’s a mad mad mad mad world…
Given the sliding scale of crazy out there as the year winds to a close, this week I ordered another 60 rounds of 45-70 and two 7-day ration kits that…
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Changing of the seasons…
It’s the end of September, which means the first real snow here in Colorado should be less than 30 days away. While it’s already snowed here for a couple of…
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The more things change…
I’ve been working at the same place for over sixteen years now; you can even read about the day I got hired, and it’s been quite an adventure since then.…
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Smokey
With large sections of the west coast being on fire and the jet stream moving west to east, and Colorado having a few of the yearly blazes as well, it’s…
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Went to a show…
Saw “Tenet”. It was very SciFi Channel, but after not seeing a movie since “Rise of Skywalker” nine months ago, I won’t complain. And the popcorn was really good. Scott…
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Waaaay back…
I was just looking through some old emails and found the email trail I sent back and forth to someone here on LJ in order to get a code to…