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German Vegetable Soup with Bacon
Kat made the following recipe for a Soup-er Bowl party and it came out really well! Here's the original recipe. And if you don't read German, here's what Apple Translate did with that photo above.
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Asparagus Bane
I was describing Spargelfest in Germany to a friend and they asked me, "What makes white asparagus different?" I said, "They take a Bane approach. It's cultivated in darkness." Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born
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2025 Summary
I'm doing this again. A year in review for 2025. If you want to catch last year's, you can find 2024 here. Pray that brevity finds me, for your sake. 2025 brought new challenges and plenty of adventure. Challenges Psychic Damage The first challenge of 2025
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An Open Letter to John Darnielle
I took an action item at lunch with friends to send this letter a few weeks back. I decided that finding John Darnielle’s address or email and then sending him this would sound too much like a request. And, walking by Merge Records to just drop it off would
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2024 Summary
It's been a while since I've posted. In fact, this is the first post of 2024. It's been a whirlwind of a year. The year started out spending lots of time with friends and saying an untimely, final goodbye in January. Lots of memories
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Becoming Anti-social
This isn't about becoming anti-social in the traditional sense, but more anti-social media. Asocial would be a more accurate term. A few years back I made a decision to disconnect from most social media platforms. If you wanted to get in touch with me or know what I
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Peru Trip Overview
It's been a dream of Kat's to explore Peru and hike Machu Picchu for years now. Thanks to her influence it also became a dream of mine. Before we get started on the details, here's a link to the curated photos of our trip.
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Canyons – Day 6
Day 6 after a short Cross Country interlude was our final day boarding in Utah. We decided to mix it up and head over to Canyons. The weather forecast was SNOW all day (up to 10 inches) and there was already 4 inches on the ground. Park City was effortless
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Park City - Day 5
Day 5 started out super lazy. We were gonna go to Canyons but the group consensus was to do nothing at all for a while. The day off included a ton of computer time... Then we decided why not go cross country skiing?! We rented skis and boots and did
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Park City - Day 4
Day 4 of Park City gave us a few more inches of snow. This day was completely dedicated to Adventure Alley runs. We completed all of the Adventure Alley runs on the mountain! Each one is demarcated by a little metal monster. I put together a string of runs during
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Park City - Day 3
Day 3 of Park City brought us a few inches of snow! We started right as the lifts opened up (or just a few minutes behind) and headed straight to the Powder Monkey “Adventure Alley” section on the back side of the mountain. This is a tree filled gully full
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Park City - Day 2
* Binding repair * Falling in the lift line (me plus new bindings) * Fast runs * A run that lasted for miles * Sunny skies * Powder Monkey tree run via super high lift * Lunch break * Anneka learning to ski backwards and crashing into a 30 foot wide bright orange Slow Zone barrier in the