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Snow walk

Jim — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:59:24 +0000

Fat City is open so Nadya and I walked uphill in the snow to have breakfast and buy Christmas present.

Temperature peaked at 23 degrees today with the weather guessers projecting freezing rain and sleet for the next day. At least we got out today and it was pretty.

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Snowed-In Neighborhood Party

Nadya — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:13:27 +0000

What to do when everyone’s Saturday before Christmas plans were cancelled? Have an impromptu “bring what you were going to bring to your other party” neighborhood party. We were the lucky hosts. Everyone else had to tromp through 8 inches of snow.

Trackday!

Jim — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:46:19 +0000

Today was the first trackday of the year. It was threatening rain for most of the day but luckily no rain appeared and in the afternoon the sun even came out. A good day to shake off the cobwebs and get back on the track.

All of the sessions were uneventful for me as I slowly increased my speed. That is until the last session.

I had an instructor with me and was pushing a bit harder than usual. Towards the end of the session, the car started to get loose as the tires started to get a bit too hot. Nothing too dramatic as the backend stepped out on turn 6. The instructor said, Nice recovery, but I knew the car was loose and pushed a bit more than I should have.

Did I mention the video camera Nadya bought me for Christmas? I’m still experimenting with transfering video and trying to optimize the format for download.

Stats for the day: 97 miles and 9.7 gals of fuel

Geocaching

Jim — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:09:46 +0000

One of our Christmas presents was a GPS. After we recovered from the holidays, we went out and found our first geocache. It was not too far from the house and was an easy cache to find. Of course I didn’t read the directions which made it harder than it should have been.

Late Christmas Present

Nadya — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:45:36 +0000

The new entertainment center was just begging for one of these: (a big screen tv Related posts:Happy New Years (a little late) 784 Miles Major downtime Related posts:

Jim Builds a Trebuchet

Jim — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:16:27 +0000

For Christmas Nadya bought me a Trebuchet kit from Trebuchet.com

Assembly took the better part of a day, most of it waiting for the glue to dry. It easily sits on the table and throws a small wooden ball about 20′. Next I need to build one that can throw a golf ball 300 feet.