Training Log Archive: barb

We watched "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" recently. The lion tamer said the reason for them holding a chair in one hand (there's a whip in the other as you'll recall) is that tracking the four different points of the chair legs confuses the lion and diverts its attention away from wanting to kill and eat you. So next time I do that Tucson trail run, I should bring a chair instead of a knife. (And a whip?) I wonder if it works on dogs too.

Today my stepson Caz came over and made dinner (!) - a really fine dinner. He brought along his new girlfriend, and I like her very much. They met four weeks ago at a Dr. Who party. I found out she used to do track & field in high school. I told her about orienteering and showed her a map, and she started bugging Caz about when they could go do it. Best reaction I've gotten from anyone yet, and I've explained orienteering to a lot of people. This was not the only reason I liked her.

Read "Three Cups of Tea" - recommended.

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Event: WCOC DU-O #1
 

Snow above Tucson. Taken on that February Sunday when John, Cristina and I did the trail run.

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Pine Hill map. Dave and I set some eggs in the woods for kids to find, then went on a gentle mostly on-trail exploration of Pine Hill.

In the MIT student center before going to see the Shakespeare Ensemble's "Twelfth Night". The kids did some too, and my parents each did one dance! They were good! Maybe I inherited from them whatever it was that instantly drew me to Dance Dance Revolution.

The student center game room has been squeezed into a space less than half its previous size, to make room for a bank.

Into Boston, then work. Big wind.

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Setting a street-O in the neighborhood for the Lego club.

Work commute. Frozen precipitation.

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Work commute

Harriet & Amisi making radios a couple weeks ago, from Quaker Oats boxes.

Awesome speech by Obama today. Which he wrote himself. (Whereas the Pretender currently occupying the White House wouldn't be able to read a single one of those sentences off a teleprompter.)

Today I came across this nugget for nerds:



... In other news, today I read a bit more on how they caught Eliot S, which development has had me quite curious to see whether people cotton on to how closely They (and their algorithms) are watching us.

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Something horrible happened in Central Square today. I don't know exactly what, but saw the aftermath just outside of DD - tons of police, Mass Ave closed off, detectives measuring a rear wheel of a big Shaw's truck, dark streak on the ground for many yards behind it.

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