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Today’s randomness: for the first time in decades, I wrote my name with seven strokes instead of eight strokes.

I hated it. It’ll be another couple decades before I do that again.

Unrelated, have a picture of a weed.

This should have been my #adayinthelife photo. #stillalive

A distraction hike along the Bob Stutz Path in Los Altos Hills, California, just after five in the evening, with Andy and his two dogs, Tilly and Luna. #adayinthelife

Puppy dog, get better, please. #stillalive

A woman who would take away the rights of women would not have the power to do so if not for the efforts of the woman she is replacing, the woman who fought for those rights and that power.

Without Ginsburg, would Barrett be where she is today? I say likely not.

I will never understand people who sort their bookcases by the color of the book jacket or spine. 📚

Strange lighting tonight.

Today in New Life Adventures, I trimmed a duck’s wings to prevent her from flying away.

. @help SSL cert expired or bad caching on my device?

I keep forgetting the garlic.

At least I remembered the tomatoes today.

Yeaaaaaaaah… someone get JK an editor. Too many words. 📚

Whatever you do, don’t buy the Trader Joes Pumpkin Spice Batons*.

  • unless you’re okay having all 12 wafers at once! Yum!

“So how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”

Give me another week, dog, just one more. #stillalive #chaseachu

A day.

Welcome, October.

Tempting.

The dog knows, when you are on your last legs, you leave the devil’s cut, even if you are a beagle. #stillalive #chaseachu

Life comes at you fast.

Another Red Rocks training hike, this time with the Cherry Gulch loop. #dawnpatrol ⛰

Spend the early afternoon plotting other hikes. Looking forward to next week’s planned 10k and 12k summits.

Walking to the store last night, I was jumped by a black cat. Friendly, well-fed, and insistent that she be petted.

Given how 2020 is going, if the universe wants me to pet a cat, I’m petting a cat, even if superstitions are screaming loudly.

“Bare with me, Kitt, as I rearrange schedules.”

Um… I am not getting naked with you, coworker.

“Sometimes endings are more important than beginnings.”

Watching a friend teach his child about chess endgames, I am grateful for being invited into their world.

Things I should not do at 6pm: have tea.

Things I am going to do at 6pm: have tea.

I hope they are hit by cars into being able to think intelligently.

First Colorado training hike complete. Little winded on the up, but far, far less than expected.

Will hike Red Rocks again before heading to Devil’s Head Lookout Tower in a few days. #dawnpatrol ⛰

An inauspicious beginning to the preparations for this first Colorado mountain climb. #dawnpatrol ⛰