Month: January 2012
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An Early Season Bicycle Tune-up
It’s only January, but the riding days have already started here in Denver. We had good weather the last two weekends, and it looks like mid to high 40s and sunny again this weekend. This good news means I’m itching to get out and ride, and to actually put real miles on my old Trek…
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Colorado’s Quality of Light
I’ve lived in Colorado for almost 5 years. In my second life I’m a photographer, and the light here has fascinated me almost since my first day in Denver. There is something unique about the light in Colorado. On a clear day from Denver the mountains are truly stunning. In the early morning light the…
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Restarted Fitness Goals
Several years ago I set a goal to get in pretty good shape by Andy’s wedding. Over that time I lost about 45 pounds, and I felt great. Now here I am a few years later and I am (quite literally) right back where I started. So here we go again. I’m setting some pretty…
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A Variety of Pens
Last week I decided, pretty much on a whim, to try out a bunch of different pens from JetPens. I take a lot of notes at work, and my pen choices have varied from a Fisher Space Pen to the great Uni-Ball 207 gel ink pens to terrible off-brand ballpoints (no link for those). In…
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Hey Look, it’s January!
No words of great import will be found here today. But that’s OK, not a lot going on. We had some warm days after I got back to Denver, and I got a good chance to get the motorcycle out of the garage for a while. Last night gave us a reminder that it is…