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November 26, 2005Good Night, and Good LuckI watched Good Night, and Good Luck a few nights ago. I could almost feel the older population I was watching the flick with looking over their shoulders...Westcott Nation was, I would imagine, a fertile breeding ground for radical ideas like communism back in the day. In honor of the late Murrow, Laura and I said good night, and then woke up the next day and hiked Good Luck Mountain in the Adirondacks.
We picked up Jay, an RIT student from Utica on the way, and then I joined the Laura and Jay yearly tradition of doing a low peak dayhike the day after Thanksgiving.
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I travelled a bit over Thanksgiving Break, but not where you might think. Avoiding my typical New Jersey haunts, I went with Laura down to her family's place in Skaneateles, where I put on my chef hat and cooked a fair portion of a large Vegetarian Feast.
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| All this food, and all edible by me! |
I'm glad to finally know people with like eating habits during the holidays. Even better to be dating one of them...
I found a rather hilarious bit of news today -- a class action lawsuit is being raised against certain online dating companies for paying female users to use men's credits.
For people who haven't been reading a long time, you heard it here first.
The weather has been so great so late in the season that I've been riding every day of each weekend. Last weekend I rode in a SU Triathlon road ride that nearly killed me -- no breakfast (just a cup of coffee) and no water, combined with a 60 mile bike ride meant bad things for blood sugar levels. Somewhere around mile 45 or 50 I couldn't feel my arms and got some neat tunnel-vision, so pulled off the road. I was barely able to talk...fortunately Keisuke came riding back and said 'here' when I mumbled something about gatorade. A little sugar and salt and I was back in the saddle fine for the rest of the ride. Awesome.
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| I've also been MTB'ing again |
Here's hoping the weather holds out for another week...I could definitely use the exercise. Especially with the amount of stress that's coming up in the next few days...
Winter is coming later this year than I ever remember it. Maybe my memory is fuzzy...but the days feel so long and warm still, even though I go in to work before sunrise and come out after sunset.
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| Paul, helping us get ready |
I'm once again living in a place with a woodstove, though. To help cut down oil usage, we've chopped up (and bought) about 3 cords of wood. Will it work? Time will tell -- we did make it to November 1 without turning on the heat though, so maybe this winter won't be as expensive as we fear.
After re-discovering meditation and other fun tactics to live with the stress of work, I've discovered something else fun -- walking. I'm taking around an hour of your tax dollar's time to go for a stroll across the street from the base to work each day.
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| Something else occupies my time... |
To give an overactive brain something to do, I've started at-work trainspotting. These apparently abandoned Adirondack Scenic Rail cars move almost every day. I'm attempting to decipher the pattern.
Of course, maybe it means my sanity is shitting the bed, and that I need to find a line of work that is more intellectually stimulating?
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| Returning to America |
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