The loneliness of the mascot. Mason is one of Zac's teammates, and the little kid on the bench is Mason's younger brother. This is from Thursday night's championship game, which ended up being a loss for the good guys, the home team, the guys in white. This picture sums it up in a sense. So close, able to see, able to have it right there, yet seemingly so far away. Just like the mascot in the picture, Long Hill came up short of the party at the end. They got out hustled by the kids from PIscataway, who simply played harder, made fewer mistakes, and worked their way to the win. Solid season regardless, and it was great to watch these kids through the year. I really hope Zac stays with this game, as he has some serious potential to go with his height. We'll see what the future brings.
So a few more links for the 2 people actually clicking them:
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Day 1: From Reality We Escape
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Day 2: Conclusion of the Great Escape
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The main Mohonk Page
In all, it was a really great experience to check out Mohonk and we are super grateful for the generous wedding gift from
@graveyardman67 and his wife. This was definitely a memorable weekend.
My next projects look like this:
* Still need to backfill the last 2 days of the Xmas trip to Canada
* Going to Chicago next week for a 2-day, 1-night work trip. That'll be a single post
* Following those I'll drop the Kentucky trip into the travel blog
We had a demo with the NIH today, and there is some chance that I will go to Bethesda for the on-site there. We also have a huge one in Atlanta but I'm off the hook for this right now. In the end, I don't think either will happen but I'm also realistic that there's a non-zero chance I get roped into going. I pretty much don't want to travel much for work these days, though I enjoy Chicago and I would take the Bethesda trip because I could probably roll that into something fun in the DC area. I have never been a fan of Atlanta.
I got on the trainer for an hour yesterday and 90 minutes today. Yesterday was a hard effort and today was just turning the pedals. I'm watching season 3 of Man in the High Castle and it's ok. I have too much invested to not close it out. I think I started episode 5 today, with another 5 after this. I assumed today that this will need to go to a season 4 to resolve anything and I just checked it out and indeed, season 4 is coming sometime this year.
So after last weekend at Mohonk, and the oral surgeon savagery on Tuesday, I took a few days off the bike and have been trying to get my legs & motivation back in gear. I felt fine today but I was kind of bored. I'm not feeling very good these days, but I think I'm both tired as well as beat up from Tuesday's surgery. And like everyone else, I'm sick of the weather and just worn out. I have 2 Zwift rides lined up for this weekend but I think I need something more intriguing than High Castle to get much more than 90 minutes out of it.
I don't really have much in the way of Short Track insights to share more than what I put on the main thread. What I will say is that I'm really pushing to get away that weekend to go skiing for 2 days, likely up in the Catskills since we have Friday night dinner plans, so we need to be able to drive there Saturday morning. Hoping to rope
@2Julianas and
@MurderBort into going with us. I think they are game, just need to iron out the details.
On that note, today the 4 of us booked a week in Sedona for next February. But that's too long to wait to see them, so we're going to try to get a ski weekend in before that. In addition to that 16/17th weekend, I'm lining up a ski day on the 24th with me/D plus the boys and Julia if she wants to go, but I'll guess that she elects to stay home with her mom that day. We may do a day trip up to 1 of the Catskill places we have not been that day. Plus we also have twilight passes for Camelback we need to use. And I was hoping to give Zac a day of skiing during the week and letting him skip school 1 day. Need to figure out how that's going to work and I admit that we'll need to really work to make this happen. That would be 5, yes count them FIVE more ski days this year. I'm all-in, because as you all well know, the weather will just turn one day and before you know it, it'll be 60 degrees and biking will actually be possible again.
I'm also trying to get D to think about buying the 19/20 Ikon season pass. As crazy as it might seem, we could probably squeeze out 10 days up in Tremblant next winter if we line things up right and the Ikon pass is unlimited for Tremblant with no blackout dates. I just looked at a 7 day pass for Tremblant and it's $412 US. Add in that we would get 5 days each of Killington/Pico, Sugarbush, and Stratton. If we can get 7 days at Tremblant next winter, this would actually be a pretty solid deal. Ok I may be getting ahead of myself. I've got an essay lined up on the ski thing, but I'll get to it at another time.
I did yoga twice this week. I think I like it.
DST this weekend, which I like. I prefer longer daylight after work. I wonder if we'll be able to think about Mondays at CR again soon.
I know it's Friday night but I'm going to let this one fly. I hope everyone has a good weekend.