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🧻 New Year, New Journals and a Roll of Toilet Paper

Monday January 1st, 2024. My pal Tony has recently sent me the most hilarious postcard. A postcard of an unknown family’s Christmas cheer. I am a competitive man and so I need to turn up my postcard game and this is the result. Diameter measured to compare before and after the post office’s handling of Continue reading
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🐄 Commons Ford Ranch – Hike Through A County Park

Sunday December 31st. Lauri planned a surprise hike for this day. I am excited to see that we are going to a Travis county park. I recently discovered that there are several county parks in Texas, some of which offer campsites similar to the way they are handled by Texas state parks. We packed a Continue reading
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🐙🚣 Inks Lake State Park & Tony Got Me Back

January 6th Karnack Texas, I am currently camping in the cold without a sleeping bag or pillows, but while I am under blankets I’d like to catch up the blog a bit, so let’s discuss December 30th and the visit that Lauri & I made to Inks Lake State Park. The plan was to take Continue reading
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📩 I Send Dumb Cards To Tony

Tuesday December 19th to 29th. Returned from the Portland trip to two postcards Sent a couple of postcrossing cards as well. This card above was sent to a dog’s profile. Of course I sent a bunch of nonsense postcards to my buddy Tony. A free postcard from the library. A postcard from a vending machine Continue reading
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🌲Portland pt. 4 Vinny the Gas Station Cat 🐈

Sunday December 17th, our final full day in Portland, Oregon. On the 18th we fly home to Austin. This morning we chose to skip hotel breakfast and try out a food truck. My vegan wife Lauri picked this place and I made the assumption it was a vegan restaurant and so I told the worker Continue reading
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🌲Portland pt. 3 A Day of Shopping

Saturday December 16th Another morning waking up in our hotel in downtown Portland and another quick hotel breakfast. Each day we do a bit better with the food as we learn what the best aspects on offer are. First things first, there is a Saturday market just down the road. Let’s check it out! Sick Continue reading
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🃏Wreck This Deck pt. 2 What To Do About The Portal?

The last time we checked in I was investigating a portal that I was pretty sure was evil, but according to my newly created demon deck this is not the case. From here I have two options. 1. Attempt to make the deck more powerful by capturing a demon or 2. Try to figure out Continue reading
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🏜️ Let’s Build a Fantasy World Pt. 2 – The Floating Cube of Briovox

Let us return to the world of Hallgrim and answer some more questions about this place I have three sets of world building questions and I used a dice roller to determine which question to ask. I rolled a 27. Question 1: What are the seasons? On Earth, we have four seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer Continue reading
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🌲Portland pt. 2 1800s Cooking & Woodworking!

December 15, 2023. Day two of our visit to Portland, Oregon. While prepping for the day I wrote a postcard to my buddy Tony. Lauri added some stickers to her tablet case as well. I believe that beetle is the new addition. Possibly the whale as well. Today is the day we go out a Continue reading
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🌲Portland pt. 1 – NBA – Fuck Ticketmaster

Saturday December 23rd 6:26 pm. December 14 – 18 Lauri & I were on vacation to Portland Oregon. I’ve always wanted to see what it’s like in the Pacific Northwest and her favorite NBA team The Blazers is there. To leave Austin we got to the airport an hour before our flight was ready to Continue reading
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🃏Wreck This Deck pt. 1

I got a new solo RPG. I have never (intentionally) played a solo RPG like this before and one of the aspects of this game is journaling and so I will be doing that here on this blog. Adventure. The first step is “Who are you?” What do people call you? Levi What is your Continue reading
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🫢 Busted! Postcard Hijinks

December 12th & 13th. Unrelated to the hijinks I sent a postcard to Iceland. The postcrossing profile was very specific about what kind of cards to send, but I think I was able to pull it off. This is from a Pecan store just outside of town that has many nut related items for sale. Continue reading
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🏹 Pedernales Fossils & a Bunch of Postcards

Austin, Texas Tuesday December 12 9:35 am 48° F (9° C). This is the refrigerator of my pal Dan who lives across the parking lot from me. That South Padre Island card is one that I recently sent to him and I see that he placed it near a postcard that I sent him years Continue reading
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🎒 Postcards & Slingshots

Friday Dec. 8, 8:56 am. I am currently at my doctor’s office after an annual physical waiting for a flu & tetanus shot. I’ve been having a good time sending odd postcards to my friend Tony. I have confirmation that he is not annoyed with them and so they shall continue. The most recent odd Continue reading
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🚶♂️1,600 Steps @ Bastrop State Park

Monday December 4, 7:42 am. The weather in central Texas is still decent (mid 50s [13 C]) and so it is still a good time to visit the State Parks and add another stamp to my State Park Passport. When I checked in at this park the ranger asked me if I wanted red ink Continue reading
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