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Today, I find myself thinking about the day I took this. It was one of those days that, at least in memory, was practically perfect in every way. And so, so beautiful. I'm counting down the hours. Mountains. Desert. Soon...
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Leaf'd
Yesterday, we had the best lost Mount Rushmore stop yet. If you've stopped by here regularly for almost any length of time, you've probably heard me complain talk about the tourists that turn up at the camp because of some elaborate Google error/prank. I will tell you right now that the problem continues to plague us. But every once in awhile, we get a gem. This time, a heavily-stickered Nissan Leaf stopped. No exaggeration on the "heavily" part of that. As it happens, we were inadvertently included in the Negative Carbon Road Trip , a fantastic undertaking with the goal of hitting the 48 contiguous states (and Quebec, if I'm remembering some of the writing on the car correctly) including each state capital in 100 days with an all-electric vehicle. For those keeping track at home, that's over 26,000 miles -- all without a drop of unleaded. BK (the driver) took us up on the not-totally-necessary chance to charge (hey, top off when you can!) a...
October -- Two-Thirds
I haven't decided what I think of this whole Windows 10 thing. That's not what I was going to write about when I finally pulled up Blogger, but then I was told that my browser wasn't supported. Why? Because I decided to give this whole Microsoft Edge thing a try. (Also because using two different browsers lets me stay logged into two different Google accounts ... and I'm lazy.) Edge. Fine. Whatever. You can put a new name on Explorer, Microsoft, but it's still just a browser. A browser that forces me to use Bing. Ugh. [This is where I would also point out that I feel like it means I moved from an SUV to a crossover with questionable lines and not quite enough fuel efficiency to make me happy.] I've got a trip starting soon, and what am I thinking about? Computer updates that, quite frankly, don't actually have a real impact on my life. 10 looks nice. It works just fine (so far). It's kind of a weird cross between 7 & 8, but since my only...