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Changes

August 15, 2010

Yes, yes, I know, dear reader:  it’s been quite a long time since my last post. A lot’s been going on lately and I’ve mostly been keeping to myself.  Oh, I’ve been talking to people here and there about things, and it’s not that I didn’t feel comfortable talking to you about them, dear reader, [...]

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Weekend TRs

August 10, 2010

So I’ve been writing all night, but not here.  If you’re interested in reading my trip reports for this weekend, you can follow these linqs: Hunter & SW Hunter (Catskills) on Saturday Tabletop & Phelps (Adirondacks) on Sunday Maybe I’ll post the full text for tomorrow night or something, but I don’t feel like doing [...]

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Icky Thump

August 5, 2010

Work has been really weird lately.  Several key people have left in the last few weeks and everyone is pretty worried.  Nobody will meet anyone else’s eyes and everyone’s wondering who’ll be the next to quit.  It’s pretty messed up and overall, the vibes are wicked icky.  I went for a nice long run after [...]

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Self-Doubt

August 3, 2010

Yeah, it happens.  But it’s a total bitch.  For me, at least. I’ve been struggling with self-doubt for the last couple of weeks or so.  I’m not sure where, when, how or why it started, but it seems like all of a sudden I just can’t make any decisions.  And for someone who prides himself [...]

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Cardinal Jack Nicklaus

August 3, 2010

Shortly after the Pope had apologized to the Jewish People for the treatment of Jews by the Catholic Church over the years, Ariel Sharon sent a proposal to the College of Cardinals for a friendly game of golf to be played between the two leaders or their representatives to demonstrate the friendship and ecumenical spirit [...]

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A Pleasant Fiction

July 30, 2010

The old Jeep pulls to a stop at the end of our driveway, lets us out by our own faded Jeep and pulls a youie, Bill’s gnarled hand waving goodbye to us from where the window would be.  At the same time, Jen and I take a deep breath and smile broadly as we exhale.  [...]

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The Story of My Life

July 27, 2010

As written by Hakuri Murakami in On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (and unabashedly scraped from that linq).  This short story appears in Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes. Seriously:  this happens to me AT LEAST three times a week. Haruki Murakami: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning One beautiful [...]

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Peaceful Weekend

July 18, 2010

The last five days passed like a dream.  I was really hoping for some kind of spiritual experience or battery recharge or something when I headed off to the woods last Wednesday.  And I got it.  Well, I got something.  Not entirely what I thought it would be, but something nonetheless. I’ve been looking forward [...]

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OOO 7/14 to 7/18 – Unreachable.

July 13, 2010

I’m taking a couple of vacation days – Wednesday to Friday.  I’ll be up in the Adirondacks, bagging peaks.  I leave Wednesday morning and will hopefully be able to climb a mountain that afternoon.  I’ll be staying at the lean-tos at Flowed Lands.  Feel free to send me a fax. Thursday and Friday will be [...]

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The Men Who Don’t Fit In

July 7, 2010

Scraped from here, but discovered at WinterWarlock‘s facebook page: The Men Who Don’t Fit In by Robert W. Service There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,  A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin,  And they roam the world at will. They range the field and [...]

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