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comfort read
Yesterday I tried to distract myself from the events of the day as much as possible and, for a few short hours before the world woke up and began to obsess, I didn’t see enough in the news media or on social media to trouble me. That was never going to last, of course. When Read.
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served
Our trip to NYC was the first vacation My Darling B and I have taken together since March 2020. Yeah, it’s been a while. When Barb booked our flight to NYC, she managed to snag us a couple seats in the first class section of the plane for less than the cost of seats in Read.
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gloved
With daytime temps in the 30s, we had to bundle up against the weather every day we were in NYC. I could get by with a pair of trousers below my waist but wore many layers on my torso, usually an undershirt, a long-sleeved cotton shirt, and a flannel shirt. When I went outside, I Read.
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block block block
I have done what feels like a terrible thing: I blocked the American Red Cross on my phone because they won’t stop calling me. I used to donate blood and plasma regularly, ever since I was allowed to. I remember donating to the blood drive that came to my home town and set up in Read.
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IAT Devil’s Lake segment
I drove up to Sauk County to walk the Devil’s Lake segment of the Ice Age Trail. This is the continuation of the Sauk Point segment that I hiked on 10/14/2024 right up to County Highway 113, which is where I started hiking today. I intended to walk only as far as the IAT campground Read.
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The Porcupine Mountains
I’m back home from a three-day hiking trip to the Porcupine Mountains in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I left Madison last Sunday morning, hiked the back country Monday and Tuesday, and returned home this afternoon. I didn’t camp in the back country. Looking back now, I kind of regret not doing that, but this Read.
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IAT – Sauk Point
I took the day off from work today, so I drove up past Sauk City to walk the Sauk Point segment of the Ice Age Trail as far as Highway 113. One-way that’s 4.2 miles, but I had to walk it out and back to return to my van, so a total of 8.4 miles. Read.
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North Trout Lake State Park 9-2-2024 — 9-4-2024
Back today from a three-night campout at the North Trout Lake campground in the North Highlands — American Legion State Forest. I originally scheduled for just two nights, Tuesday and Wednesday, but I got some camping gear in the mail that I couldn’t wait to try out: a hammock, fly, and quilts, and a lightweight Read.
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road rage
Just got home from a road trip to Denver and back. Never thought I’d say anything like this, but after driving in the traffic around the Denver metro area I hope I’ll never complain about Madison traffic ever again. Not that I think Madison drivers are great. They’re not. They’re pretty piss-poor drivers by any Read.
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Guess Who I Saw Today
This Is Drivel 