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Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Peaceful Motorcycle Ride: Part 5: Raspberry Hollow Bear

After my delicious meal, I had to ride on a major paved road for a few miles to Raspberry Hollow. What a buzzkill. The little 200 cc Yamaha air cooled thumper has all the grunt I need to stride through … Continue reading →

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Peaceful Motorcycle Ride: Part 4: The Crown

I was on a motorcycle ride in the forest and I was happily lost. Eventually, I started thinking about lunch. I had a self heating MRE and planned to “cook” it on a picnic table at Raspberry Hollow. I dug … Continue reading →

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Peaceful Motorcycle Ride: Part 3: Goals

The forest I wanted to explore is not small. You could spend a lifetime there. I had a weekend… or perhaps a lifetime’s worth of exploration that has just begun. I had two goals; I wanted to check out “free … Continue reading →

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Peaceful Motorcycle Ride: Part 2: Escape Velocity

Having abandoned my plan to promptly depart after work Friday, I embraced the delay. I treated myself and my family to dinner at a restaurant. I’d made it through Friday. Sometimes that’s all you can do. Plus, family is the … Continue reading →

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Peaceful Motorcycle Ride: Part 1: The First Step Is The Hardest

Daily life is a gravity well. Uncommonly, a rare and glorious unchained mind may pass well beyond its reach; merely deflected a bit or perhaps untouched as it follows an unfathomable course charted from and into the void. For the … Continue reading →

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Peaceful Motorcycle Ride: Part 0: Who’s Patience Is Wearing Thin?

Did you listen to it? I’m talking about the Potato in Chief’s tantrum at the podium. Mark the calendar for Thursday September 9th 2021 and remember. Do not forget. It wasn’t a mistake. What he said was intentional. If you … Continue reading →

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Today Is Pictogram Day

I’m only briefly near WiFi. Today is (mostly) a day of being off grid. However, there’s much I’d like to discuss. If I wrote it out, I’d wind up typing for hours. Fuck that… it’s sunny out. So instead I’m … Continue reading →

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Calm And Optimistic

I would never entangle myself with YouTube. Why work with a platform that hates you? However, if I did videos I’d strive to be as cool as Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen. I wanna’ be like him when I grow up! Bjorn … Continue reading →

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Bat Signal And I’m Outta’ Here

Some basic announcements for the upcoming weekend: I’m going off grid for a while. This is normal. No cause for alarm. My absence probably will be brief… unless it isn’t. In which case it just means the trout were biting; … Continue reading →

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Rhythm

I just did a Neandertal click. That’s my term for it, I just decided. A “Neandertal click” is when you click on something even through you realize that only a friggin idiot would care. Lets face it, the only reason … Continue reading →

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