New Years Eve 2022

Some friends in Summit Park have a tradition on New Year's of holding a torchlight parade in the upper section of the neighborhood. They invited us to join this year and it was a fun mini-excursion. Kari, Tory, and I skinned in, while Tegan boot packed with...

A Night at the Bards

It's been over 20 years since Kari and I worked for the Bards in Evergreen, but they were throwing a party and put us on the invite list. Kari wasn't about to miss it and I thought it would be a nice getaway for the two of...

Murdock Ski Tour

Very nice day ski touring with Kari and Lin. Started in Upper Pinebrook traveling up Toll Canyon and ripped a few laps off the NE side of Murdock. Beautiful day

Baking the Bread

Since before the pandemic started I've been giving sourdough bread a solid try. It's mostly gone well overall and I get a loaf in the oven once a week, maybe once every other week. Getting the original starter going was pretty straight forward. I followed along on...

More Canyon Time Please

Got a few days away last weekend. Tegan was originally going to join me but decided to stay home - too many fun things going on here this weekend. So alone I went - Thursday evening to Sunday. It was a good quick trip, and very very...

Too much Raptor?

One thing I've been working towards with our truck is removing all areas of chrome. I like the blacked out look especially since the truck is white. The black wheels were the first step and still absolutely love them. The next upgrade on the list is the...

Tycho on Shuffle

Here's how to put together the perfect playlist to work to: Add all albums by Tycho to your librarySearch library by artist, find TychoClick shuffle Why is this the perfect playlist? It's like an unguided meditation, but with drive. Perfect.

Lemon Tree

About a year ago I bought a lemon tree from an online retailer - brighter blooms.com - and stuck it in the studio near the window. It seemed to be doing great for quite a while. It would periodically flower and even get tiny little lemons: But...

Got my wrist back

Last June I broke my Apple Watch (series 3) while puttering around the house. That watch was one of my favorite pieces of tech and had been on my wrist for going on 3 years straight. I love the health tracking stuff, and the quick notification views....

Considering the Laptop Life?

My very first Mac was a 17" Powerbook G4, purchased shortly after graduating from design school in 2004. It was a good machine for the time, but I basically only remember two things about it: How excited I was when I first got it, and how badly...