A few blogs back I wrote about finally hooking up the latest scanner I acquired a few years ago. Another one of the pictures I scanned in my first batch is from a backpacking trip Hawk and I made in July 2000 ( Read more... )

Today is Groundhog Day. February 2 in the US (and Canada, apparently) marks a strange tradition in which people living in the countryside forecast the next several weeks of weather by observing the behavior of the local groundhog population. If the groundhog emerges from its burrow and sees its shadow, the folklore goes, it mean 6 more weeks of ( Read more... )

Richmond, VA - Wednesday, 13 Sept 2017, 11am.

I came clean to my secret hunter this morning: I am the one who hates marmots. I did it to put him out of his misery ( Read more... )

Richmond, VA - Wednesday, 13 Sept 2017, 8am.

Tuesday night we were playing a social game at my company's offsite training program. We all had a "secret" for one person to find. Mine was "I hate marmots (ask me why)", and the person searching for me was flailing- and utterly failing- at finding me. As people filtered out at the end of the evening, ( Read more... )

Richmond, VA - Tuesday, 12 Sept 2017, 11pm.

Dinner Tuesday night with 30+ colleagues was a fun event. Not only were the mojitos at the Cuban restaurant delicious but there was a social game afoot. As I explained previously we all had secrets: one to find out, and one to be found out. The game worked in that it spurred us to have conversations with ( Read more... )

Richmond, VA - Tuesday, 12 Sept 2017, 10pm.Day One of new job training has gone smoothly. Of course, since this is Week Seven of actually working here, it ought to. I've learned all the basics on my own already ( Read more... )

Rocky Mountain National Park - Sunday, 3 Sept 2017, 7pm.

After a late lunch and visiting the weekend art fair in the town of Estes Park we headed back up into the high country of Rocky Mountain National Park. Our destination: Trail Ridge Mountain, which we drove past last night coming back from Alpine Ridge but didn't have time- or energy- to hike ( Read more... )