semi-random flotsam
It’s not ideal, but it’s also not unheard of for me to have less than 10% of my step goal behind me by 1pm.
Ideally I would have a workout in the morning or maybe during lunch, so that I wouldn’t be so far behind by the end of the day. But it doesn’t always happen that way.
Continue reading “Slacking”Something is taking up residence in my underutilized backyard. Winter, you know.
Continue reading “What is it?”It turns out that poulet yassa is a traditional dish in both Senegal and Guinea, helping me catch up on the culinary aspect of my misadventures.
I decided to work from this version, though I also found a Guinean recipe that I decided I could also try if this one seemed promising but wasn’t quite the thing.
Continue reading “Virtual African Loop: Chicken Yassa”When I started this solo challenge, originally it was to end with the loop of Crater Lake.
Later, I decided to trek back north afterwards, to end in the Columbia River Gorge, more closely mirroring my IRL journey of a few years ago.
Continue reading “Solo mission NW: Crater Lake”I was listening to an episode of The Indicator on economics in space. Toward the end, one of the astronauts talked about how being in space changed his views of Earth fundamentally. And it was touching and thought provoking and sweet.
Continue reading “Sounds”So after my car battery died and we got it jumpstarted, here are the “exciting” updates.
(Exciting used very loosely, to be fair…)
Continue reading “5 Updates – Vroom vroom”This particular lament could describe me on a fair number of workdays.
It describes many of us after 4 years of government-by-crisis (or is it crisis-by-government?).
But no, in this case I refer to something more concrete and tangible.
Continue reading “Drained”While I’m still looking forward to making some Senegalese recipes, I seem to have tripped my way over another border, into Guinea.
Continue reading “Virtual African Loop: Into Guinea”So: 2020 started out with lots of promise. I had just come off one adventure at the end of 2019, and one trip was completed in January, with others planned, paid for, anticipated.
Continue reading “Final tally / Wall of fame”As if 6 hours of the BBC production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice were not enough…
Continue reading “A literary day”
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