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A quick post from Stowe, Vermont, where it’s currently snowing.
Spent a lovely day on the slopes - a bit painful with the new boots, but that’s the usual song-and-dance with new stuff. But the conditions were excellent.
Saw a fellow Conn alum while shopping in town a while ago - same class year, too. [...]

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I hope yours is merry, safe and joyous!
I leave you with the lyrics to my favorite modern Christmas song: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon.
(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)
So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The [...]

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Heading north for a week. Not much more to say than that, right now.
I hope that DC has a good Christmas, one free of anything too weird.
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And they meant a lot to me, but for different reasons.
First, there’s Patches.
He was an undersized, gray and white cat who was born during the summer between my junior and senior years of high school, back in 1990. His mother was a feral cat who adopted us (isn’t that always the case?), [...]

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As I get ready to post a review of a cool, bike-oriented gadget, I point to this wonderful, does-it-all computer for the bike: the Cerevellum Bike Computer.
Sure, it costs as much as a laptop, but it has features: the usual speed, distance and time, as well as a GPS, elevation gain/loss, wattage produced, and rear-view [...]

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Thanks to Sweetpea, I’m now reflecting on the Christmas traditions that make me smile.
1. Favorite Christmas cartoon: A Charlie Brown Christmas is my hands-down favorite. First of all, it’s the Peanuts gang, before they became all soft and PC. Secondly, the soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio is great jazz music that happens [...]

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