I like camping. I have an inner narrative that believes that I want to be a lumberjack… a mountain man. Living off the land in complete self-sufficiency. Although I’ve learned A LOT in my adult life about surviving in the wilderness, and consider myself quite capable, what I really need most of the time is […]
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Back in May we took a multi-week long trip to the southwestern part of the United States. We’ve done similar trips in the past as we love the feeling of the open road, a van to camp in, and seeing a landscape that is vastly different than what we get here in Minnesota. We both […]
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I’ve been a computer geek since I was 8 years old when I got my first C64. Back then, digitizing media didn’t make sense. The resolutions of old monitors were too low, the sound quality was mediocre at best, and the equipment to do the conversion from physical media to digital was expensive and rare. […]
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As someone who grew up in the entertainment spectacle of the 80’s, endured the brooding alternative scene and ennui of the 90’s, and then dove into the new social media/influencer culture of our current day, I’ve started to have a strong distaste for a lack of authenticity. It’s not so much that authenticity hasn’t been […]
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Today the year of age 47 comes to an end. I believe it started sometime around March 2020 but I can’t be sure anymore. Or maybe it was 46…. Frankly during the last couple of years I lost track of how old I am. I’m not really joking. I do know that today starts 48 […]
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It’s finally time. Every year for the past couple years, sometime in March, I take the studs off my fat bike, thus declaring to the world, “Winter is over!!!” Invariably we end up with a big snow storm sometime in the coming weeks, but hey, a guy can dream right? In addition to removing the […]
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It’s time once again for extreme cold in the Great North! Every couple of years we get a solid week of frigid temps. Usually this means an air temp that averages between -25°F (-32°C) overnight and -5°F (-20°C) in the daytime. Because of our need to sensationalize everything it’s become known as a “Polar Vortex”. […]
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It’s that time of year again to look back at 2020 and start reflecting on things. In the coming days I’ll be posting my traditional biking, running, and overall reflection posts. However, I wanted to take a little bit of time today to talk about what I think the blog will look like next year. […]
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Tomorrow is the last day of November. It feels like the month flew by, and dragged on, both at the same time. Just about every month of 2020 has had that same feeling. We’re stuck in this strange limbo where we want to keep pushing and pushing to get past this pandemic (as of this […]
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Each year I try to do a Thanksgiving post, and talk about what I’m thankful for. As I stare back on the train wreck that was 2020, doing that seems like a tall order. I think instead of trying to list off all of the things I’m thankful for, I’d rather talk about the act […]
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For years I’ve had a big, heavy, gas powered, 2-stage snowblower. It’s a beast of a machine, and I really don’t like it that much. Every year when I go to start it the first time it takes forever. I do all the stuff I’m supposed to at the end of the season, like use […]
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I’ve been thinking over and over again about everything I want to say, could say, should or shouldn’t say, about the election. Honestly, I think many of us are still just coming down from the stress of it all and trying to process everything. I certainly have a lot of thoughts, and maybe I’ll talk […]
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