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Personal posts that are not project related. It is blog, I think we all know what a blog is.

  • So this is the new year

    I think the problem with New Year’s, as a concept for me is focused so heavily on the clean slate aspect that it makes resolutions that are not about reinvention seem unworthy of the event. I want to be clear in how I say that is, with full understanding, from my point of view I’m…

  • Ice skating is a cultural phenomenon, I guess

    Yesterday I took Thomas and a friend of his to the Montgomery Whitewater Park, which is, as the name might imply, a kayaking and rapids obstacle water course, it was recently used as the time trials for the USA Olympic team to determine who would make it to the Olympics. Anyway, this year, they built…

  • I killed podcasts and you can too

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    I stopped Listening to podcast probably sometime at the end of summer or the very beginning of fall. why did I do it? It’s all because of the environment in which I became comfortable listening to podcasts. A big part of this had to do with the app I was using called overcast by marco…

  • Curling

    Curling is such an expensive sport. It really is insane that it can exist in anyway you have to have sheets of ice that have the right type of pebbling that gets applied to you have to have outrageously expensive stones that way 40 to 50 pounds and I do mean expensive these stones are…

  • Day 2 – Toledo: Foggy Beginnings and Grand Endings

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    The day started early, with all of us groggily boarding a bus bound for Toledo, an ancient gem of a city about an hour south of Madrid. Toledo isn’t just old—it’s really old. As in, “Hey, this bridge was built in the first or second century BC” old. The city is a tapestry of temples,…