Training Log Archive: CleverSky

The cryptic footnotes are more verbose than the text, which crawled in at 11 words per day, significantly less than the 64 that my initialsake managed. The duy is gaft. Just stay away from the locker and see how the disorigami evolves. A lanai isn't too far off the mark, I think.

RHIN-O #7 pretty serious rain, but I didn't have any trouble with being cold. The main problem I have at Ratlum is that since I know the area so well, I tend to look at the map, see where the control is, and just try to go there without looking at the map again. That can be okay in the daylight, but it's riskier in the dark. It bit me on the first control, costing me a couple of places. Easy enough to go to the pond, and maybe even safest to take Wleft Road to get there, but I went on the more direct smaller trails and managed to make a wrong turn at the first junction. Before long I was north of #15 and heading west, but even in the rainy dark I was able to recognize that it was wrong, realize where I was, and correct without looking at the map. But I was already down a couple of minutes. The rest basically went okay, though I was a little too far right on #3. Phil was coming out of #5 when I was heading in, and by #8 I had reeled him in. We were more or less together from there to #15, though sometimes on different route choices. We passed Rick DeWitt at #14, and then I went through too much laurel getting up to the trail. I had some trouble using my headlamp in combination with a hat, especially in the wet, as the headlamp fell off a few times when it got hit by branches. My prior knowledge did help me on #17, as I was able to blast to the trail, recognize the buttonhole, and had an easy attack from there. This is likely to be the last orienteering of the year, as it has been every year since 2008. Are there others who have done all seven RHINOs?

C • all seven 6

I don't think Rinehart did me much good, but I'll have to manage as best as I can. Silly of me to put so much theoretical effort into degenerate origami, but it looks like the dimensions are okay. At worst this should be benign, at best probably a bigger flaming tornado than I can handle, but what are the chances of that? Avoiding all hazards is not the point of the game. Maybe I should have gone with "eeyolpme".

I shouldn't even bother with worrying about whether the time of ebola would rhyme with fiction. Although I was once among those who needed at least a hint of a last name to resolve the ambiguity, I've more recently been widely known by just a pair of letters. But preparing the die, at least, holds some promise of being therapeutic. With proper care, what's the worst that could happen?

Half-measures would seem to be called for, along with reorganized perspectives, restrained imagination, and realistic expectations. But some realities seem unlikely until you acknowledge that they clearly are realities. Nevertheless, it can be better to strategically sneak up on things than to come into this world like a bulldozer and start ripping up the place.
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C • Given the wording, I'd gues... 7

At least double the usual level of koyaanisqatsi. Gimli's assessment seems accurate, although his recommendation is suspect. Plenty of puzzle pieces lying around, but I'm not sure that any of them fit. Should I be clapping my hands for the tale? Would anybody? Let the water hold me down. Without a lot of unavailable telepathy, neither the odds nor the stakes are available. Several useless aphorisms and proverbs may apply. I can burn without fuel.