Happy New Year!
(posted from home)
(This post covers 1 – 8 January 2012)
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Sunday, 8 January -
Hey, it's Sunday so it must be time for a motorcycle ride, yes? Today's weather isn't quite so nice but, still, it's almost fifty degrees out, though a bit cloudy. I took the Concours and the iPad, intending to catch up the blog. I worked for an hour or so as I sipped my cappuccino only to have the iPad suddenly black out the screen and lose my work. NOT cool.
I packed up and headed toward home, intending to divert to Rocky Ridge until I realized I didn't have suitable walking shoes. What the heck's wrong with me? Ahh, well, no bother. I did 5K yesterday and have been doing a good bit of walking so should probably rest anyway.
I returned home and re-created the blog entries I had lost and posted the blog update.
That evening we began watching 'Mad Men'- Season One.
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Saturday, 7 January-
After a morning of doing a few chores and patrolling the web news sites, I took the GS down to York to look at cargo trailers. I'm thinking of taking an ATV and a motorcycle along to Florida this year and wanted to see if a trailer would be practical. I then hit Starbucks and walked at Rudy Park. I had again gotten a later start than normal so went to Rudy so I wouldn't get caught too far from the bike as darkness came on. As it turned out I had made the mistake of using the time on the GS and hadn't changed it to daylight-savings time. I had plenty of time before dark. (And that explains why the sun seemed higher in the sky than it should for that time of day!)
That evening we watched 'Smoke Signals', a nice little indy movie about two young guys from the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation who have a complicated relationship which plays out in a road trip to Phoenix and back. Good one!
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Friday, 6 January -
We spent the morning on the web and then later in the day we joined Mom and Dad and one of their neighbors for a visit to Cafe Bruges in Carlisle. Dad loves the moules-et-frites there and I like their Monk's Ale, a sour red ale. Today's temperatures were over sixty so it made for a nice day to be out for meal.
I also worked on Dad's answering machine today (it was hung up, perhaps by a power surge) and on his Skype application on his PC. Dad and Labashi use Skype quite a bit for routine contact so I need to keep it running. Unfortunately, the latest Windows version has problems with Windows Vista. I downloaded the beta version and that seemed to tame the problem.
That evening we watched 'Gold Rush' and 'Flying Wild Alaska' for our nightly entertainment.
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Thursday, 5 January -
This morning MissusMaypo made us a hearty (and low-carb!) breakfast, then Maypo and I drove over to the Greene Township park to look at the new ice rink. This is the first year the township has tried the rink (which of course is an extra-warm year). We happened to arrive as one of the township guys responsible for it was just wrapping up today's inspection of it. He had hoped to get started on the final surface prep today but it's not quite ready. The surface prep is done with a squeegee-type contraption with a water connection, in this case to truck-mounted water tank since there's no water connection handy. The water melts the surface a bit and then it refreezes to a flat surface for the skaters to enjoy. It was great to run into this guy and get some inside info on the ice rink and efforts by the township to increase recreational opportunities, even in such tough economic times.
After the rink, we drove to the nearby Gander Mountain store to peek in the used-guns case and look around in general. Nothing special today.
After dropping Maypo off I headed home, arriving around 1400. I changed clothes and jumped on the Concours and rode over to Pinchot for a walk.
Pinchot Lake is ice-covered but it's still unsafe for skating and ice fishing. We had a pretty good breeze today so I headed away from the lake and walked up to the Ridge Trail and circled back to the Nature Center. Again, I started out a bit late so my walk today was only an hour.
That evening Labashi and I watched the last disk of season one of 'Modern Family'.
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Wednesday, 4 January-
This morning I called Maypo and arranged to meet him at his house around lunch time. He's off for a few days. I drove Labashi's car over, stopping at the Carlisle Starbucks for a quick cap-to-go along the way (lunch!).
We jawed a bit catching up on the holidays and then went over to 'Good Ta Go', a local beer emporium that's relatively new to the area. I had not been to this place before but Maypo had been there just yesterday with his son and had enjoyed himself. I'm not much of a beer drinker but was interested to see the place. It's a bit odd in that it has covered drive-through lane yet has bar-style (high) tables, a munchie-menu, and a big-screen TV for those who want to venture inside.
We were greeted by an offer of a free draft and then given a tour of the rows of six-pack-filled coolers with sections devoted to Domestic, Import, Specialty, (and other) beers. You can mix-and-match a six-pack if you like (subject to some restrictions). They also have a PC set up to access BeerAdvocate.com to help in your selection process.
They also have almost a dozen non-traditional beers on tap. After finishing my freebie Yuengling, I tried a Lindeman's Framboise Lambic and Maypo tried a toasted lager (I can't remember the name).
We went home after just the two beers but not long after arriving Maypo received a call inviting us to 'the FBI'-- the Fannettsburg Inn.
I drove us (me, Maypo, and MissusMaypo) the forty-five minutes to the FBI where we met up with a small group of Maypo's friends from work. We had a very pleasant and light-hearted evening as most of the group indulged in Taco Night. I stuck with a Coors Light and a bacon-cheeseburger without the bun to try to stay somewhere in the neigborhood of what I should be having on my diet.
On the way back to Maypo's he invited me to stay over rather than make the long drive home tonight and that sounded like a great idea.
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Tuesday, 3 January -
This morning I had another late start because of being awake a few hours during the night. I began thinking I'd like to go visit Maypo today but waited too long to make up my mind so didn't go. By mid-afternoon I was getting antsy so rode the Concours down to Rocky Ridge for a walk. Unfortunately, I waited too long to start out and had to cut my walk off early, only getting about an hour of walking in.
That evening we watched 'Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dellaire', an intense documentary about the civil war in Rwanda and the isolation of the UN peacekeeping force during the genocide.
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Monday, 2 January-
We're so out of it we didn't even realize today's a holiday. I wondered why there were football games on TV and why the mail didn't go.... until the lightbulb finally went off.
We started back on our low-carb diet today and I'm looking forward to it. The diet quickly gets my blood pressure back down out of the 'borderline high' range and I normally sleep pretty well while on it.
I had called in our phone line problem last week and we were supposed to have a visit today from the phone company tech this afternoon. But he called late morning and said the problem had been fixed. A mouse had built a nest in one of the phone pedestals down by the creek road. In any case, the buzz and crackling noises are gone. Thanks, Verizon!
That afternoon I rode down to Rocky Ridge on the GS to take a walk. When I saw the parking lot crowded I headed for the more remote parts of the park. And when it started to rain lightly, I thought that would be good to clear things out a bit. I was surprised to run into four other people in the steeper and most remote part of the park, all with the same surprised look at seeing someone else back here on a rainy day. This walk was a longer one than normal, taking about two-and-a-half hours- about six miles. Afterwards I took it easy riding the wet roads home.
This evening we caught an episode of Alaska Wing Men, a reality show about pilots accompanying the Iron Dog long-distance snowmobile race. At the end of the show we saw a brief shot of one of the pilots, Jim Arie, with a note saying something like 'he died doing what he loved best'. I stayed up late finding the notices of the flying accident in which he was killed. His plane clipped a tree while searching for wildlife at very low level. After watching him operate in very sketchy weather conditions to support the snowmobile racers, it was a shock to learn he had crashed in good weather and it was apparently due to pilot error. What a shame.
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Sunday, 1 January -
Happy New Year!
I was awakened around 0200 this morning by unexpected noise and lights. I heard a few whoops of a police siren and then noticed our back yard was being flooded by the strobing lights of a police cruiser. The back yard runs along a side street and apparently someone being tailed by the police car had pulled off the main road into the relative safety of our side street.
I couldn't see much due to the trees on that side of the yard but did see there were at least two police cars and the perp's vehicle. I didn't hear much, just muted voices--- and they didn't seem angry. After a half-hour one police car left but the other stayed another half-hour or so until the tow truck showed up and took away the car. I'd guess it was a drunk-driver stop but who knows.
After sleeping in a bit I took the Concours down to Tollgate for my Sunday coffee-and-blog, then went on to Rocky Ridge for my five-miler. Nice day.
That evening we watched 'Darwin's Nightmare', a documentary about the lives of Tanzanian citizens affected by the perch-fishing industry as managed by the First World countries. Not a pretty picture but very worthwhile.
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(posted from home)
(This post covers 1 – 8 January 2012)
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Sunday, 8 January -
Hey, it's Sunday so it must be time for a motorcycle ride, yes? Today's weather isn't quite so nice but, still, it's almost fifty degrees out, though a bit cloudy. I took the Concours and the iPad, intending to catch up the blog. I worked for an hour or so as I sipped my cappuccino only to have the iPad suddenly black out the screen and lose my work. NOT cool.
I packed up and headed toward home, intending to divert to Rocky Ridge until I realized I didn't have suitable walking shoes. What the heck's wrong with me? Ahh, well, no bother. I did 5K yesterday and have been doing a good bit of walking so should probably rest anyway.
I returned home and re-created the blog entries I had lost and posted the blog update.
That evening we began watching 'Mad Men'- Season One.
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Saturday, 7 January-
After a morning of doing a few chores and patrolling the web news sites, I took the GS down to York to look at cargo trailers. I'm thinking of taking an ATV and a motorcycle along to Florida this year and wanted to see if a trailer would be practical. I then hit Starbucks and walked at Rudy Park. I had again gotten a later start than normal so went to Rudy so I wouldn't get caught too far from the bike as darkness came on. As it turned out I had made the mistake of using the time on the GS and hadn't changed it to daylight-savings time. I had plenty of time before dark. (And that explains why the sun seemed higher in the sky than it should for that time of day!)
That evening we watched 'Smoke Signals', a nice little indy movie about two young guys from the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation who have a complicated relationship which plays out in a road trip to Phoenix and back. Good one!
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Friday, 6 January -
We spent the morning on the web and then later in the day we joined Mom and Dad and one of their neighbors for a visit to Cafe Bruges in Carlisle. Dad loves the moules-et-frites there and I like their Monk's Ale, a sour red ale. Today's temperatures were over sixty so it made for a nice day to be out for meal.
I also worked on Dad's answering machine today (it was hung up, perhaps by a power surge) and on his Skype application on his PC. Dad and Labashi use Skype quite a bit for routine contact so I need to keep it running. Unfortunately, the latest Windows version has problems with Windows Vista. I downloaded the beta version and that seemed to tame the problem.
That evening we watched 'Gold Rush' and 'Flying Wild Alaska' for our nightly entertainment.
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Thursday, 5 January -
This morning MissusMaypo made us a hearty (and low-carb!) breakfast, then Maypo and I drove over to the Greene Township park to look at the new ice rink. This is the first year the township has tried the rink (which of course is an extra-warm year). We happened to arrive as one of the township guys responsible for it was just wrapping up today's inspection of it. He had hoped to get started on the final surface prep today but it's not quite ready. The surface prep is done with a squeegee-type contraption with a water connection, in this case to truck-mounted water tank since there's no water connection handy. The water melts the surface a bit and then it refreezes to a flat surface for the skaters to enjoy. It was great to run into this guy and get some inside info on the ice rink and efforts by the township to increase recreational opportunities, even in such tough economic times.
After the rink, we drove to the nearby Gander Mountain store to peek in the used-guns case and look around in general. Nothing special today.
After dropping Maypo off I headed home, arriving around 1400. I changed clothes and jumped on the Concours and rode over to Pinchot for a walk.
Pinchot Lake is ice-covered but it's still unsafe for skating and ice fishing. We had a pretty good breeze today so I headed away from the lake and walked up to the Ridge Trail and circled back to the Nature Center. Again, I started out a bit late so my walk today was only an hour.
That evening Labashi and I watched the last disk of season one of 'Modern Family'.
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Wednesday, 4 January-
This morning I called Maypo and arranged to meet him at his house around lunch time. He's off for a few days. I drove Labashi's car over, stopping at the Carlisle Starbucks for a quick cap-to-go along the way (lunch!).
We jawed a bit catching up on the holidays and then went over to 'Good Ta Go', a local beer emporium that's relatively new to the area. I had not been to this place before but Maypo had been there just yesterday with his son and had enjoyed himself. I'm not much of a beer drinker but was interested to see the place. It's a bit odd in that it has covered drive-through lane yet has bar-style (high) tables, a munchie-menu, and a big-screen TV for those who want to venture inside.
We were greeted by an offer of a free draft and then given a tour of the rows of six-pack-filled coolers with sections devoted to Domestic, Import, Specialty, (and other) beers. You can mix-and-match a six-pack if you like (subject to some restrictions). They also have a PC set up to access BeerAdvocate.com to help in your selection process.
They also have almost a dozen non-traditional beers on tap. After finishing my freebie Yuengling, I tried a Lindeman's Framboise Lambic and Maypo tried a toasted lager (I can't remember the name).
We went home after just the two beers but not long after arriving Maypo received a call inviting us to 'the FBI'-- the Fannettsburg Inn.
I drove us (me, Maypo, and MissusMaypo) the forty-five minutes to the FBI where we met up with a small group of Maypo's friends from work. We had a very pleasant and light-hearted evening as most of the group indulged in Taco Night. I stuck with a Coors Light and a bacon-cheeseburger without the bun to try to stay somewhere in the neigborhood of what I should be having on my diet.
On the way back to Maypo's he invited me to stay over rather than make the long drive home tonight and that sounded like a great idea.
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Tuesday, 3 January -
This morning I had another late start because of being awake a few hours during the night. I began thinking I'd like to go visit Maypo today but waited too long to make up my mind so didn't go. By mid-afternoon I was getting antsy so rode the Concours down to Rocky Ridge for a walk. Unfortunately, I waited too long to start out and had to cut my walk off early, only getting about an hour of walking in.
That evening we watched 'Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dellaire', an intense documentary about the civil war in Rwanda and the isolation of the UN peacekeeping force during the genocide.
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Monday, 2 January-
We're so out of it we didn't even realize today's a holiday. I wondered why there were football games on TV and why the mail didn't go.... until the lightbulb finally went off.
We started back on our low-carb diet today and I'm looking forward to it. The diet quickly gets my blood pressure back down out of the 'borderline high' range and I normally sleep pretty well while on it.
I had called in our phone line problem last week and we were supposed to have a visit today from the phone company tech this afternoon. But he called late morning and said the problem had been fixed. A mouse had built a nest in one of the phone pedestals down by the creek road. In any case, the buzz and crackling noises are gone. Thanks, Verizon!
That afternoon I rode down to Rocky Ridge on the GS to take a walk. When I saw the parking lot crowded I headed for the more remote parts of the park. And when it started to rain lightly, I thought that would be good to clear things out a bit. I was surprised to run into four other people in the steeper and most remote part of the park, all with the same surprised look at seeing someone else back here on a rainy day. This walk was a longer one than normal, taking about two-and-a-half hours- about six miles. Afterwards I took it easy riding the wet roads home.
This evening we caught an episode of Alaska Wing Men, a reality show about pilots accompanying the Iron Dog long-distance snowmobile race. At the end of the show we saw a brief shot of one of the pilots, Jim Arie, with a note saying something like 'he died doing what he loved best'. I stayed up late finding the notices of the flying accident in which he was killed. His plane clipped a tree while searching for wildlife at very low level. After watching him operate in very sketchy weather conditions to support the snowmobile racers, it was a shock to learn he had crashed in good weather and it was apparently due to pilot error. What a shame.
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Sunday, 1 January -
Happy New Year!
I was awakened around 0200 this morning by unexpected noise and lights. I heard a few whoops of a police siren and then noticed our back yard was being flooded by the strobing lights of a police cruiser. The back yard runs along a side street and apparently someone being tailed by the police car had pulled off the main road into the relative safety of our side street.
I couldn't see much due to the trees on that side of the yard but did see there were at least two police cars and the perp's vehicle. I didn't hear much, just muted voices--- and they didn't seem angry. After a half-hour one police car left but the other stayed another half-hour or so until the tow truck showed up and took away the car. I'd guess it was a drunk-driver stop but who knows.
After sleeping in a bit I took the Concours down to Tollgate for my Sunday coffee-and-blog, then went on to Rocky Ridge for my five-miler. Nice day.
That evening we watched 'Darwin's Nightmare', a documentary about the lives of Tanzanian citizens affected by the perch-fishing industry as managed by the First World countries. Not a pretty picture but very worthwhile.
****** END OF POST *********
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