A Bit of History Laura initiated this three-ish year project to improve the approach to the house’s front door. I too thought it could be improved and we therefore took it on without completely nailing down what we wanted. Nonetheless, we knew enough to get started, whittling away at it in phases. While we didn’t …
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A Car Chase Done Well
If you’ve seen One Battle After Another, I wonder if the car chase toward the end had an impact on you. I’m going to add a snippet of it here and hope I don’t get in trouble for hosting it. Why tempt trouble? I’m glad you asked. You can picture many (most? all?) Hollywood car …
Wind Maps
For those who don’t know, Denver sits adjacent to the Rocky Mountains in what would relatively speaking would be called a flat plain (the further east one goes, the flatter land gets). Given that, you’ll no doubt spot the boundary between mountains and plains. It’s fascinating to see how the wind rips down the mountains …
Italian Doors
Here are all the doors I snapped during our trip to Rome, Florence, Montepulciano, and Montalcino in July, 2025. And yes, I take photos of doors while vacationing. As a bonus, here’s the hand burned front door of our old Sonoma County, CA house and our newly painted door at our current Denver home. It’s …
Impressed…But Only in the Slightest, Unimportant Way
Trump is clearly a lying, corrupt, inept, incurious, narcissistic, amoral jackass. But, damn it, his signature is fantastic. Note: His signature attained notoriety after a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced. It’s still great even as we add probable pedophile to his biography. I expect to update this post again as probable turns out to …
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Snowfall
We’ve had a weird first half to the 2024-2025 snow season in Denver. Cumulatively, this season’s 15.7” of snow isn’t far off the recent historical average of 18.6”. Variable differences, right? No biggie. But let’s take a closer look, shall we? Here are the average snowfall amounts, in inches, 1991-2020. September .8 October 3.9 November …
Another Day, Another Rush Anecdote
My go-to band, Rush, is never far from my daily existence. Spotify obviously has me pegged as a fan, Peloton rides will surprise me with a song from their catalogue (more of that please!), they pop up in movie soundtracks, and some lyrics have a knack for being spot on during particular situations. Most recently …
Bouldering
Living in Colorado, climbing is pretty popular—even on a Friday night when I’m writing this. Maybe I should pick it back up, but that’s for another time and another post. Right now, Reese is in her happy place bouldering. And while I hate the drive to get here (there’s another bouldering place way closer), at …
Heavywinter—Young Edition
This site has been around since 2004, though technically I got the domain in 2003. But I consider 2004 the true year I began to blog. I don’t write much anymore, but that’s gonna change (you’re in the presence of the proof yo!). The Wayback Machine has snapshots of the blog even after I deleted …