Using up every last minute of vacation during my last month at work, I travel to Chicago to for the 4th quadannual Sociometry Fair. I have to fly to get there and back in 4 days. Having heard radio stories about new charges for checked bags, I take only a computer bag with spare socks…

I spend the day at my friend Mike’s house, demolishing what’s left of one of the six buildings he lost to a recent tornado. We had to cut it up and pack it into a big dumpster.

Something about outdoor time lapse photography really grabs me. Just going out my back door to capture this sunset made me feel more a part of my world, and looking at it does the same:

My dad is excited to share his discovery of this pretty trailhead on the North Fork of the South Platte River. We hike south from the Jefferson County open space park into Pike National Forest through Ponderosa forests and old burn areas. Pine Valley Ranch Loop Hike at EveryTrail

Reading these books in the order they were written has been an intriguing peek into the life of the author as well a satisfying plunge into a good story. Having written the series over the entire course of his life, Asimov’s interests and values changed and grew richer, and the books reflect this. The wonderful…

The Canyonlands Needles Outpost is not to be missed. Get your solar-powered, off-the-grid milkshakes and hot showers here. Scramble on the rocks by your campsite. Have a cold microbrew. But I probably am wasting my pixels, because every time I try to tell someone how great Tracey and Gary are, they already know!

We squeak over Vail Pass between closings for snow, then coast merrily down the Colorado River into Utah, where we enter a very different world. By nightfall we’re closing in on the Needles Outpost, where Dad and Sarah are waiting for us in campsite 23.

I went to this pre-meeting mostly just to listen in and see what’s up. My only contribution was when people were yelling out ideas for the website. Everything people wanted I recognized as features of a wiki, so I yelled out “Make it a wiki!” And everyone yelled out, “No!” Here are the minutes mailed…

I knew nothing substantial about the uranium mine being proposed near Fort Collins, so I went to a panel discussion held by the Fort Collins public library to see what it’s about. I’ll summarize what stood out for me in the three-hour discussion. The setup was like a scene from a movie: white-faced, white-haired men…

I think of our planned new year’s eve in Vedauwoo as an easy test run to prepare us for more challenging winter outings in the camper. Maybe part of being born in Wyoming is an eternal willful ignorance of her reaction to such assumptions. We’re beggin’ to be whupped like flapjack butter. I see the…