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Heading into the mountains!
Last night, we visited Nederland, Colorado - 8200 ft, the opposite of the real Netherlands! This was just a family dinner, and a chance to expose our bodies to the even-higher altitude. My old friend Dana came up from Denver to eat with us, it was great comparing where life had brought us, catching up, meeting her son Sullivan.
Last night and this ( Read more... ) -
Lake Nanita, North Inlet Trailhead, Rocky Mountain National Park
ProTrails: Lake Nanita, North Inlet Trailhead, Rocky Mountain National Park
Leaving at 5:00 am tomorrow for Rocky Mountains, 5 days hiking with family. Elevations 8,500-11000 feet, it's going to be really hard on me.
The only thing I've got going for me is a good pair of boots. I don't think that will make up for altitude sickness and general lack of ( Read more... ) -
Riding home from Leipzig
(Or is this the return trip?)
Leipzig was fun, but I won't write about that at the moment. Instead, I show off the video from the awesome motorcycle-mounted camera I got from spidertangle . The ride too and from Leipzig were really nice. Low traffic, mostly-no-rain, blue skies, and fucking fantastic high speeds (the speed-cameras in Germany shoot you from the ( Read more... ) -
My Weekly Carpentry: Rear Window! (okay Windows)
First off: the douchebag carpenter finally replaced my two big front windows, which gets me out of trouble with the merciless city government. That's good news and ends a year-and-half nightmare. I can't believe how long we had to chase him, how often he fucked up and missed deadlines. I should have taken him to court, but then this would have ( Read more... ) -
My Weekly Geekery: Hack de Overheid
I've missed regular updates here, but I've been quite active on the Geekery front so I have a nice backlog for posting here.
I went to "Hack de Overheid", (Hack the Government) day in Amsterdam. Like the US and UK, the Dutch government is really getting into the idea of publishing some of its data for the public to use. Then they encourage/promote/ ( Read more... ) -
My weekly Geekery, A training RANT
Granted, I'm 4 days through a severe 6 day head-cold. So maybe this is coming out harsher than it should. But whether I'm climbing out of my sickbed or taking time out of my work schedule, DON'T WASTE MY TIME when you claim to offer advanced trainings.
In computer trainings, there are some real benefits to investing in real-life training classes ( Read more... ) -
Spammers
Annoying. I've been getting more spam "comments" on my old LJ entries ( Read more... ) -
Thailand days ... ?
Did I link day 6 already ( Read more... ) -
and thailand day 4
Over at spidertangle's
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Thailand day 3
Courtesy of S:
http://spidertangle.livejournal.com/83323.html
I'm sick with runny nose. Sleeping a lot. Now off to last masterclass cooking night!