Author: Steve Block
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I’m Being Lazy
This bicycle tune-up thing is showing how I can get stuck and be a bit lazy. I now have all the parts I need to rebuild the bike. This includes a new bottom bracket, new chain, new brake pads, new brake and shifter cables, and new tires. I’ve cleaned up most of the frame, including…
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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…
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I Went Down to the River
It’s a remarkably warm December here in Iowa. Last night what should have been a huge snowstorm was just a lot of rain. Before that we’ve had sunny 50 degree days. This weather belongs in Denver, not Ames. But we have it, so I guess the answer is to work with it. I grew up…
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The Last Weeks of 2011
I’m sitting here listening to Back to Work, drinking RoS, and thinking about how nice it is to sit at the table on a weekday morning doing exactly what I’m doing. I’m very glad I took this time off and just hope everything is going smoothly back in the office. But I’m not going to…
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Journey to Wind and Fog
I finished off what felt like a really long week at a wind farm in Northeastern Colorado. The land was covered in heavy fog for most of the day, all the way from Denver up to the project site. I couldn’t see much but it was pretty in its own way. At the project site…
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The Year is Ending, But Not Winding Down
I feel overwhelmed. I look at my list of tasks to get done in the week I have before I leave for a two-day workshop and then a long Christmas break, and they seem doable. At least on paper. But every day I feel like the list gets a little longer while I get less…
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