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A day off of work, some sunshine, maybe almost 40 degrees. First time I’ve smiled and felt happy in weeks, since the San Francisco trip maybe. Rode the waterbury rec path down to the village and the river road until it was time to turn around. The rec path was untrammeled, and really it sucked [...]

The holidays continue their relentless march. At least today some people are filtering back into the office and I’m not sitting here all alone on the 3rd floor giving tutorials on how to use the fax machine to the other lonely souls who apparently have important fax business this holiday week. Maureen made everyone personalized gingerpeople. In [...]

So what’s going on in 2011? Though in my head next year feels like venturing into the great unknown, I guess I do have a lot that I’m thinking about doing. First up will be SSAZ in Tucson on February 6th.  As it’s currently 7* and snowing sideways here in VT, AZ sounds really good [...]

An hour and a half into my work day, and not one email has yet to land in my inbox. This is going to be one slow, boring week at work. A bit of a nor’easter is blowing through, unfortunately we’re not getting much of a share of the snowy part of the storm but [...]

Well, all that tranquility and contentment — that was fun for a day. Now I can return to being cynical and wanting what I do not have. While most of the world will be off of work this week, I have squandered all of my vacation time and will be spending next week in the [...]

Happy Christmas! Hopefully you have the good fortune of a real analog fire, not the digital fire that I settle for. I pine for a real fireplace, but it’s not going to happen in this tiny house. Last year my friend Sonya gave me what she thought was a  gag gift, the dvd, Cozy, Cracklin’ [...]

The other day I was depositing some money into the bank, money that for the first time in as long as I can remember wasn’t needed immediately to pay bills or alleviate some emergency. Money that should probably sit patiently in the bank waiting until I need to buy a new car in a year [...]

Temps in the low 30′s. Sunshine. Nice day for a ride. I managed just under 19 miles before being overcome by darkness. Because my geared cross bike is currently engaged in the trainer and the 22t cog currently on the One9 is too easy for the road, I took out the singlespeed Fisti, which at [...]

Saturday I pulled out my cross country skis for the first time this winter and Seamus and I went over to Cottonbrook. It’s part of the VAST system, and Umiak has already been leading lots of tourists on snowmobiles making for some well groomed terrain. We don’t actually have that much snow, cover was a [...]

“Well, this is going to be one screwed up Christmas.” My Dad You said it Dad. For those of you that might not know my Dad, know that for him Christmas is the high holy of holidays. Growing up it was fancy holiday dresses, decorations, holiday food, a preponderance of presents etc. And so when [...]