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  • seoul

    Have to say, that 4 week trip was even shorter than I imagined. I knew as soon as I got off the plane I would be getting back on it, and yep. Despite the hot, damp weather. At least the mosquitos were minimal this time around!

    And I’m glad it went well overall. Visiting the Seoul office and for the first time in my life in an office with Korean speakers all around me. The family trips to the islands where we saw aquariums, petting zoos, and a busker my daughter really liked.

    Meeting old friends, lots of laughs though their conversations are at another level, making future promises, family, being able to gift them something nice, while still managing to argue about something. Still being able to go for a few runs here and there.

    Seems like a dream, actually.

  • home

    It’s an interesting feeling visiting your old high school. Lots of memories come flooding back. Fierce nostalgia, strong feelings of things I can’t describe, and a lot of sweetness. Thankfully I’ve nothing but thankfulness, esp considering in 15 minutes I’ll be meeting some childhood friends I went to this school with.

    But for a few minutes I feel content sitting here, thinking of all the time and events that have happened between then and now.

    Deep feelings of gratitude and self congratulations of everything I went through those times

  • 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.

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