I made a custom cutting board for one of the secretaries at the office. She asked me how much money I wanted for it and I asked for ten just to cover materials. She insisted on giving me 40 and told me to go to the beer store.

More importantly daughter graduated from university. Went to ceremony. Afterwards went to lab where she did her fourth year project and met her professor and the grad student for whom she is also working this summer. They are doing something with HIV proteins. Professor and grad student said she was best fourth year student they ever had. That was nice. Met parents of her best friend of the last year. Her best friend is going to Stanford to do PhD. Best friend is basically a research superstar having done research since senior year in highschool. She was inspired by surviving cancer as a teenager.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

I just farted in your general direction.

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Judging by the angle of the sun and time of day, you actually did you sonofabitch.

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Adopted 3 kittens from the shelter where I volunteer.

Haven’t had a good nights sleep since.

My mom and dad came down to the lake with us this weekend. Got a couple of glasses of wine in mom at dinner and ended up talking and listening to old stories about the family until 2:00 am. Oral history and what not.

A while ago I discovered a group of cyclists in my area. Due to this and that, I wasn’t able to ride with them until today. I get really nervous before group rides (like almost race nerves). I worry about people wrecking into me. That’s my primary concern. Anyhoozle, I rode with the group. They were nice and rode well. Chatty.

I’m home. Kids are okay. I ate a delicious fried egg sandwich & now it’s time to chill out. I’m pretty sure I can talk my kids into swimming or badminton later. What a life! Best day ever!!!

I aimed roughly in your direction.

Whore.

My son and that girl were collateral damage.

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Photos?
I foster kittens during the academic year. I love cats!

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

I checked my location on google maps to make sure I was facing Moosefucker, Ontario before I took this.

Suck it, BLeP!

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I dunno, looks to me like you are aiming it at Quebec.

Suck it, Snoots!!!

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That's what I thought too. Hope so!

Got my EP up and running for the summer/fall season! I fill it with well water and then run a sample down to a pool store that tells me what chemicals to put in it---after that it's just a glurg [that's a technical term] of cholorine each week. Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy!






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those tiles! very very nice

that's just the pool liner style we chose from the good folks at EP

but thanks!

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Back when our EP was just a baby



The winter of our discontent




It does me happy tho each spring to fill the pool and get it warm enough to swim. Between my EP and my C2 rower (also out in the pool house) i can row & swim and not go anywhere! Ha!

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Annual cross country trip to Denver. Solo this time as my wife was off in Kona attending a swim camp. She would join me in Denver. I was a basket case laying up the house for our 6 week depart worrying did I forget, did I do it right? Eventually all is done ( I think) and I depart. I have a phone, I can do google map routing, I have a car with one of those computer tablets on the dash, my son in law downloaded some podcasts for me. Good to go right? Good God, no. I missed my navigator and teammate. Each day was a new revelation on how to blue tooth. By the last day I was able to simultaneously: speak/ transcribe a whats app message response, listen to a podcast and fast forward the 4 minute commercials, watch my blue dot travel across the map and listen to the lady tell me when to turn and when a speed trap was set ahead. Whoa!

My sister's husband up and left her recently after 52 years --their feelings about our political divide factored prominently. So I spent a couple days with her, just the two of us and her dogs, going back with stories of our childhood. It was therapy for us both. I left her on the day of the first 1/6 hearing thinking she would be in a good place cuddled up with a bowl of popcorn and her dogs in front of the TV.

Impressions from the road: Corn this time of year was just 9 inches in height, more and more wind farms are seen each year, Trump signs will simply not go away, cattle are still grazing and then penned up in feed lots by the road waiting for slaughter and market, coal is still coming out of the ground and loaded into train cars, hitch hiking is no more, people in the middle of the country are still a friendly lot, US 30 is still a lot more interesting road than I 80, help wanted signs dominate and tent camping in a soaking rain still ain't fun.

Impressions in Denver: Why do people here complain about the heat? It's a dry heat. Quit your bitching.

I love traveling/adventuring out on my moto.

but

I've found that time after time i am thinking to myself----I wish Valerie were here to share this with me

as a result we've nearly retraced every moto trip i've done in the wife's Subie together so she can see the cool things i've stumbled across. Obviously not the off road stuff. Boy Howdy Darby MT. If i ever won the lottery i'd buy property in that beautiful valley somewhere.


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The track faces North. Can’t really turn to the crowd and give you the finger. Just know that I am thinking it.

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Never a moto guy, but the sharing does make for better stories afterwards as recollections are sorted for the best version.

Darby looks isolated enough along the river valley snuggled into the foot of the Bitterroots. My son in law was born and raised in a similar little burg of Encampment, WY. He and my daughter may just end up there in 16 years when they get to be empty nesters.

anyone who has done the CDT---walking, biking or motorcycling

will recognize Encampment, WY. What a great place.


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Whilst you’re still dead to me… this did make me chuckle.

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Indeed it is the same young lady. Very bright young lady that has an outstanding future in front of her and hopefully we can help her to have her own business in the next 3-5 years.

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I saw the most intensely bright and beautiful double rainbow last night while driving north and naturally I thought of you.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W