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🥔 Potato Week
Monday January 8th, 2024. First day back at work after the solo camping weekend while my wife Lauri is still out of town visiting family. Before starting my job at 10am I run to a quick dentist appointment to fix a filling that had come loose. Luckily it came lose and was noticed by the… Continue reading
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🏕️ Car in a Ditch & I Don’t Want to Kayak With Alligators – Weekend Solo Camping pt. 2
Sunday January 7th at about 4:30 am. I left Caddo Lake State Park (loudly) with the goal of driving south towards the state parks near Houston when I came across a car that was teetering over a ledge into a ditch. A person was standing outside of the car and no one appeared to be… Continue reading
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🏕️ Car in a Ditch & I Don’t Want to Kayak With Aligators – Weekend Solo Camping pt. 1
December 6th, 2024. My wife Lauri is in Lincoln, Nebraska and so I am headed on a road trip. During this trip I visited seven state parks, one national park, met a guy with a car stuck in a ditch, found a UV active millipede, learned about camp Dutch ovens (invented by Paul Revere) and… Continue reading
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♦️ Wreck This Deck pt. 3 – Is This Message Getting Through?
As you may recall I and my three cats Penny, Keanu & Remus have been worried about spooky whisper sounds that we have been hearing around the apartment. My demon deck- Speaking of demons, have I told you about my favorite demon? Clauneck? Truly a delightful demon. We’ll come back to this. My demon deck… Continue reading
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📄 Origami Postcard, But Not What You Think
Jan 2 & 3 were lost due to cedar allergies. All of my energy went into showing up for work. Jan 4th, on the other hand, starts with planning for the weekend as I will be alone and road tripping. The goal is to visit the six Texas state parks in the Northeast corner of… Continue reading
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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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