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  • wow

    It’s been what, a couple of months? I still can’t believe it. Maybe even more so than football. I still sometimes think, damn, we won it all, and can’t help but smile.

    I’m sure I’m far from the only student who spent time in the Michigan dorms, cold weather outside, watching the usually kind of bad team with a couple of friends who came uninvited but you were happy to see them nonetheless. I really wasn’t into basketball much, not that I was into much anything back in those days, including things and people I should have been into, but still it was a reprieve from time to time.

    After graduation and life… happened I’d lost interest pretty quick. Didn’t exactly cheer you up when things were going on that utterly relegated sports to a tiny corner. Still I’d watch the couple of Final Four runs they made. It’s something magical advancing through a do or die bracket. …Only to get our hearts broken at the end.

    So even this time, with an undeniably great team, I’d steeled myself for the inevitable loss. Which never happened. Again, I still can’t believe it. In fact I think I feel much happier these days than the actual day of victory, when it felt surreal.

    So, thank you Michigan for the great memories. A benefit of that #1 public school tuition I suppose. Too bad I only keep in touch with a couple of folks from Ann Arbor. But hey, that’s life. I’m sure we all smiled wherever we were.

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  • ah maybe sometimes the closest places are the most beautiful

  • Great wolf lodge

    Isn’t too bad I guess. Never was a big fan of indoor swimming pools, but its just large enough, with rides that I confess I had fun with. Not to mention just floating in water is always a welcome feeling. Crowded but not too much, and everyone is nice and having a blast.

  • shoes

    For someone who never, ever cared about shoes beyond if they were ok for work or not, ok, I get it now. Not that I’ll ever become anything close to being a collector. But yeah, it feels nice. Especially if I get a great price. However, Hoka’s for her still not quite motivating her to come with me yet.

  • AI

    I have some strong opinions about AI. Probably every adult on the planet does.

    On one hand I cannot believe how awesome it is, that you basically can create characters just like a Star Trek holodeck. To go from having to learn the abacus as a kid to this is wild. On the other hand, it’s still almost entirely non-deterministic, when most careers are built on being deterministic.

    But I do have to say some AI augmented songs written as a counter-perspective to the original lyrics, are really cool to listen to. It’s like a long lost answer to a question I never knew I’d asked as a teenager a long time ago.

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  • Audiobooks

    Well I used to read a ton of books when I was a kid. Not many of them had literary value. Actually, probably none of them had. It was mostly fiction, novels, Choose Your Own Adventure. Hardy Boys, Sweet Valley Kids, Tolkien, Rober Jordan, etc etc. They were fun, and escape from the pressurs to study, and I’d stay up late at night to read, much to my moms chargrin. I did somehow manage to read Lee Iacoccas autobiography ha.

    Fast forward to college, and with basically unlimited freedom and more interesting distractions, reading became a thing of the past. I hardly read my own textbooks, but thats another story. Movies, games, friends etc became much more fun obviously. I did pick up Game of Thrones somehow, even attending a reading by the author himself when he swung by Ann Arbor.

    So who would have thought decades later, I pick up reading again, in the form of Audiobooks, to help me with my runs? By the way, I don’t count web comics and reading, my concious won’t let me. Again these are hardy Shakesphere, but I can’t deny I’m falling in love with them again.

    Just thought it was interesting. I do have to try not to go home and read the rest of the story before my next run though!

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  • tahoe in the snow

    not sure how I convinced myself to run in this.

    Looking at all the snow falling around me in Lake Tahoe, and it’s a lot, once again I learned I’m really not a good driver in the snow. I remember vividly trying to dig our rented SUV out of the snow when we were doing a Christmas tour of Colorado(it’s beautiful btw), and nope, not doing that again.

    The trails were fun though. As long as you could actually see the path. Which often you couldn’t. And thank you so much to the cross country skiers who padded down the path beforehand.

    So even if the entire family is on their phones anyway, it’s nice to look outside and see the snow fall.

  • not a bad day

    Also did not realize eating something super cold can be hard to digest during a hike, sorry honey.

  • strava

    Sort of rambling here, but you know, this app has been out for quite awhile, and I’m assuming anyone who has done any sort of endurance activity has heard about it or has an account. Which contrasts with the fact that as I get older, everyone including myself has seemed to all but ceased(understandably) using any social app(including Facebook and Instagram), except two. Linkedin and well, Strava.

    It makes sense, the former is tied with your career, the latter your health. And given the good feelings you get finishing a workout, getting kudos on the app, and seeing your progression, its an all around positive experience. And uploading nice pictures and videos of the deer you see on the way doesn’t hurt.

    Even Kacie is starting to wear her new Venu which I gifted against her protests, everywhere. Which is surprising since I tease her that the most activity I ever saw women my age like her do growing up in Korea during phys ed class was sit around and talk. Which she happily and proudly admits. But then again there’s a running boom these days over there where it seems like half the population is running. Something something socializing, half bragging results, a bit of positive peer pressure making it take off I think.

    But anyway, now that I’m on the app, it’s suddenly clear the vast majority of people around me aren’t into endurance activities. I’m a recent convert who uses it to deal with the stress and frustrations in my life, but for those who HAVE taken up running, cycling etc at a younger age, I wonder what drove them. Perhaps its all the same.

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  • sleep

    As I get older, getting a good amount of sleep has never been more important. Sometimes you’re in a situation where you don’t get quite enough, but when you do and have enough energy to go for trail runs in the Santa Cruz mountains, life isn’t too bad.

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