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Oct
31
The Plan A Express
Category: enjoy the blog | 1 Comment
So I am still on my little mini-vacation before rejoining the ranks of the Gainfully Employed. I must say, I am enjoying myself. PLUS, as it turns out, the 6500' altitude here is taking some getting used to, so I have been incredibly grateful to be able to sleep in until 9:30 every morning without ghastly consequences.I've been doing artwork a bit more regularly, which has also been nice. For the past year and a half or so, I was lucky to get to work on a new piece once a month. Lately it's been more like a couple times a day, in between games of solitaire, playing with the cat, and of course the slightly-too-frequent killer swim ...
Oct
29
Girls Love Fins
Category: enjoy the blog | 1 Comment
Oct
29
License to Luv Life
Category: enjoy the blog | 1 Comment
Since moving to Tahoe 10 days ago, I have seen approximately tons of fancy cars with license plates announcing the awesome great Tahoe mountain life loved and lived by the driver of said fancy car.I think there's some be-jealous-of-me phenomenon going on here? Not that this attitude is exclusive to Tahoe at all, I guess it's pretty american, but still I am enjoying all the license plate manifestations of it tootling around the lake.
Oct
28
Lessons Learned/Re-Learned today
Category: enjoy the blog | 1 Comment
1. Try fiddling with fishtank heater's plug prior to declaring the heater broken and trotting off to buy a new one.2. Look for trail maps prior to driving partway up the mountain to nice looking parking area that seems like a likely place for a trail head unless we are O.K. with gross boring hiking straight uphill for 20 minutes. I generally hate hiking but actually this trail was beautiful so it was O.K.and 3. I actually really like baseball. Now it's football/basketball/hockey season. Sigh.
Oct
27
Cutie Pie
Category: enjoy the blog, four-leggeds, no-leggeds | 3 Comments
Here he is! We think he's half-ish persian? He came with the name 'Charlie' and it's basically sticking. I also got a new fish today, because the stupidhead black fish keeps picking on little Sweetie so I figured a third goldfish might even out the dynamic. New little orange fishy is christened Pipsqueak. She's about 1/8th the size of Stupidhead so wish her luck! And yes I do indeed keep changing their names. They don't seem to mind.
Oct
27
Truckee River
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I did a great ride today, starting from Incline Village and going along the lake to Tahoe City, then following the Truckee River into Truckee, then going over Brockaway (only not-exactly-fun part...) back to the lake. It's been a bit cloudy and hazy for the past couple of days, I wonder if the fires in Southern California are the reason?
Oct
26
Today, all the kids are off school and various businesses are closed so that people can watch parades and celebrate Nevada Day. I had never heard of such a thing, but then again I hadn't heard of Ski Week either prior to moving to San Francisco.Back to me: today I did my run workout on the treadmill at the gym, so that I could do my core workout there afterwards. ("Doing Core At Home" is the biggest joke ever in my experience.) The gym has several TV's tuned to different channels. Here's what I got to watch today during my run:-tail end of Dr. Phil, in subtitles. Most frequently used word was "gonna"....
Oct
25
Oct
25
Unpacked the Camera
Category: enjoy the blog | 3 Comments
Oct
24
I’m Back!
Category: enjoy the blog, ma says... | 8 Comments
Yay we have internet now! I am so excited! Now I get to spend the day "researching diesel engines", "catching up on correspondence", "perusing job classifieds", "etc." (meaning: I get to spend the day shopping on line, facebooking people, looking at a week's worth of cats that I missed, blogging, and generally being sedentarily productive.)Anyhow, I guess task numero primo is to drag this blog out of the boring ages.STORIES:1. I got a suspicious email from my mom, Sal, wherein she used the phrases "Howzit going?" and "Thanx!". Hmm. Who stole my grammar policemom and replaced her with a tweenager?2. The recreation center here (which is actually the gym, ...
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