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Ski Day 1
There are some things you can learn at any age, and there are some things that learning early can pay huge dividends. Skills like tennis, gymnastics, and violin requires you to be playing before five if you want to be really, really good at them. On the flip side, there are certain surgical procedures or…
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Chilly
A polar vortex is spreading across the country, and right now it’s -10 degrees Celsius. It’s very, very cold. Too cold to go outside. Too cold to really do anything. In a twist of fate, the three of us are all at slight gradations under the weather, so not feeling bad about being cooped up…
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Lockout
I have cut down my social media significantly over the past few years. I keep Facebook for the Messenger and Marketplace feature, but go to the site a few times a year now, and am perpetually amazed at how empty and terrible it is. I never had Instagram, bar a two week-trial, and I delete…
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Prehab
Ky and I are off skiing next weekend, and I don’t want these dusty old knees to get pummeled. Rather than spending time and money I don’t have on rehab, I have asked ChatGPT to build a gym program on prehab. There is no workout that will stop some bonged out snowboarder cannonballing into you…
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Snow Day
Two nights ago, it snowed. It has been three years since we lived out here in the mountains, and I must say, I still love it when we get blanketed in the white stuff. There are downsides; it is COLD, it feels like 90% of the drivers must have moved to the state from Hawaii…
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Ups and downs
Today was Martin Luther King Day over in the States. It’s not widely observed, so Ky and I decided to do our own thing. MLK lived an interesting life, full of ups and downs, soaring highs and crushing lows. Do you know who also experiences that regularly? The average cowboy competing at the Denver Stock…
