Category: N.O.S.
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Tuesday
The nose stays on the grindstone Tuesdays. Six hours of TA work, three in practicum training, two point five hiking, 45 minutes wrenching on a bike, 30 minutes training in the basement (core, balance, pull ups, like always these past two months). And all the rest.Where do they all go?
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How to slideslip
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Switchback attack!!
Bill gettin’ shit done today on Sheep Mountain. Bill, Ed and I (and later Rich, how we happened across near the summit) had a perfect day: uber-bluebird, immaculate singletrack, one crash (Ed knocked some ribs on an ill placed rock), and one flat (me, pinched it, tubes SUCK), and beer and pizza to end it…
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Saturday in September
The weather persists, for the moment, in being excruciatingly clear. Today was either the ultimate or penultimate farmer’s market of 2009; the first hard frost in town in due within the week.I did lots of quality reading and writing, before getting out for a walk this afternoon.I’ve also been thinking about shoes a bit lately;…
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Thursday Night Riding
I had class every Thursday evening last year, and another this fall, about which I was not pleased. We didn’t have class this evening, so I knew where I was headed. I broke out for the trails early, needing to leave a hectic day behind. My legs felt stale, not inclined to come around, fuzzy,…
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Whuhtryulukkinat?
This mule (?) seemed pretty chill, though it did have an air of quiet desperation about it. As would I, had I been given my own orange bandanna before being left at camp tied, lengthely, to a tree.“It is still true today that our scientific and medical knowledge of madness rests implicitly on the prior…
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Bob
It’s not a coincidence that M and I have lived in some pretty cool places. While hiking yesterday my mind drifted back (waaaay back) to the autumn of 2005, when M had graduated from college, we were both working full time, had saved up enough money to buy the Xterra (used) outright, and were generally…
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Salsa! (food throwdown 4)
This one’s dead easy. Roughly chop (don’t even THUNK about deseeding!):~25 fresh jalapenos~15 assorted small chilis~6 anaheim peppers1 monster walla-walla sweet white onion (or 3-4 conventional vidalias)2-3 pounds of assorted cherry tomatoes Run it all through a food processor. Not too much now. As you process the veggies, add about 8 oz of a good…
Bedrock & Paradox 