James Pearl Thinks Blogging is Dead

if you are willing to sail the seven seas and can access an internet browser on your tv (obviously works great on your phone), you should be able to watch any CFB here with a little clicking/closing popups: https://methstreams.com/index17/

i have had great success this year with Redzone. for some reason they dont stream hockey which is lame
 
Cookies

One of the things Julia likes to do is bake cookies. This works out, as one of the things I like to do is eat them. With my new job being CST-based, I have back-shifted my day and started riding in the morning again. I’ve been feeling great! I also ate 3 cookies as my pre-workout meal. Also, that was great. Because I like cookies.

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Vermont

It's that time again, just earlier this year. First trip of the ski season and for the first time ever, we've come up before Xmas. This will be the first season we don't open up things in Tremblant. In reality, we're testing out the lodge of the ski club we joined (Central Jersey Ski Club). It's somewhere between Killington & Sugarbush, just south of Rochester. The fee was $75 to join for the year and $55 a night to sleep. Given the cost of everything these days, that's a bargain. Bonus is that the internet is fast, at least when we're the only 2 people here. We'll see how this shakes out as the season goes on.

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Killington

We started the ski season this past Saturday, and while we did not expect it to be a miracle (unless you think of the ice rink in A Miracle on Ice) it was far, far better than expected. There were more trails open than expected, and while the mountain wasn't a fully-functioning snow star or anything, it was pretty solid overall. We ended up skiing almost 40 miles according to Strava, which is a lot at any time of the year. This is the first time we've started the ski season before the yearly Xmas trip to Tremblant, so we're getting a start on things a bit earlier this year. Somehow we found a December weekend where we didn't have anything planned and we made the best of it. The day was clear blue, and while there was a little ice here & there, mostly it was a fabulous day to be out. We pieces together the mountain a little more Saturday, as it is laid out in an odd way. We're aiming to use all 7 days that the Ikon pass gets you at this mountain. Plan it to be back 2nd weekend in January.

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Ski Season is Back!

A few weeks ago we kicked off the ski season with a quick trip up to Vermont. This past Xmas break we raised the game a little with our usual trip to Tremblant. We got in 3 days, out of the 5 we were on the ground. The last day was raining and the second day we had a dog-on-dog issue that I'll talk about in another post, which led us to spending a good part of the day at the vet, or going back and forth to/from the vet. The 3 days were pretty mixed, with the most ice and most sun being from the shot you see below. I know I talk about skiing a lot in the winter. But I should point out that I am, flat out, not that good at it. To me, that really doesn't matter. I enjoy the skiing, but also the whole vibe of the hill, the concept of how sliding down the hill on 2x4s is both absurd and awesome, and the part where you eat poutine at the end. All of it makes the doldrums of winter far more enjoyable. Hopefully you can find something to make your winter less drab and more sunny, but maybe with less ice. So far we have 5 days in already, and we're looking to make this the biggest season yet.

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And She's Gone

Just like that, she's back on a plane to Columbus. It was nice having her around over the past few weeks, though the time went pretty fast. With the Canada trip in there, it seems like she just got here and now she's off for the spring semester. The first one went great from a social perspective, though not as well from an academic perspective. I'm hopeful she gets her act together for the second stage of her freshman year. Otherwise, this will be a one-and-done freshman year for her. I know we all go through various stages of growing and messing up. Shit, I'm sort of the king of that. I know she'll snap out of it at some point. But as a parent, it's hard to hang tight and let it play out. But really, that's all you can do. Kids get there when they get there. I just hope she doesn't have to crash out before that happens. Anyway, she's in the air as I write this, and will be back in the dorm in an hour or so. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. I think that's all you got at a certain point.

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The End of the Holiday

We mark the end of the holiday with a party at our house every year. I don't know how long we've been doing this. Maybe 5-10 years now. Sometimes we throw in a few tangential bike friends but this year was just the bike team. It's a pretty hectic 3 hours, then we take a picture and everyone starts to go home. I like it, but I also don't enjoy the fact I talk to some people for about a minute all night. That said, with 40 people here, if we were to try to have dinner with everyone individually, it would take us all year. The team is as big as ever, mostly. But we really don't have many "glue" events, as I like to call them. Events like the races we used to hold would serve to glue us all together for a day. As we all get older, and the race scene is firmly in the rear view, we do struggle a bit to find glue This is 1 of those events. As always, it was a nice way to wrap up the official holiday season.

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  • Take your list of team members (or couples)
  • Do a dinner a week.
  • Cross who you did dinner with off the list and do another the next week.
  • Repeat when finished.
 
Speaking of race, I rode through short track Sunday.
Any desire to put up a one and done? I can look into this if so, like to keep an open dialogue with the camp.
 
mattybfat said:
Any desire to put up a one and done? I can look into this if so, like to keep an open dialogue with the camp.
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I don't know. We would need to do the old style scoring, aka "pen & paper" - Dave Castnor's old method. RIP Panhead.

Usually our window to hold these is in the spring, which is kinda meh timing for us now that we ski. You can look into it and see where it goes.

How's the ST course holding up at this point?
 
Norm said:
I don't know. We would need to do the old style scoring, aka "pen & paper" - Dave Castnor's old method. RIP Panhead.

Usually our window to hold these is in the spring, which is kinda meh timing for us now that we ski. You can look into it and see where it goes.

How's the ST course holding up at this point?
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Webscorer.
for $60 can have start lists, lap races with splits, divisions within same race. multiple waves.

Sure you still need lots of manual input - takes 1 or two people spotting, and 1 inputting, but not horrible.
@Stef has used it on lap races.
 
Patrick said:
Webscorer.
for $60 can have start lists, lap races with splits, divisions within same race. multiple waves.

Sure you still need lots of manual input - takes 1 or two people spotting, and 1 inputting, but not horrible.
@Stef has used it on lap races.
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Crazy someone doesnt have timing equipment on the team
 
Stef said:
Crazy someone doesnt have timing equipment on the team
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I've looked, Norm has looked, Schwartz has looked.
it is a big investment - even renting from elite feet is expensive.
(they send transponders and bibs, run it remotely - which means cell service is needed.)
easier on this scale with a few people -
 
Patrick said:
I've looked, Norm has looked, Schwartz has looked.
it is a big investment - even renting from elite feet is expensive.
(they send transponders and bibs, run it remotely - which means cell service is needed.)
easier on this scale with a few people -
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Oh you mean actual equipment like that? Yeah that was a $20k investment 10 years ago. I imagine with inflation, that's not $4.5M to get that up & running.

I own a pencil and lease a ream of paper. So that'll have to do.
 
Norm said:
Oh you mean actual equipment like that? Yeah that was a $20k investment 10 years ago. I imagine with inflation, that's not $4.5M to get that up & running.

I own a pencil and lease a ream of paper. So that'll have to do.
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i'll spring for the webscorer subscription.
I use it for cross country anyway.
still need paper and pencils tho.
 
Norm said:
Oh you mean actual equipment like that? Yeah that was a $20k investment 10 years ago. I imagine with inflation, that's not $4.5M to get that up & running.

I own a pencil and lease a ream of paper. So that'll have to do.
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When I talked to the person who runs Sassquad Trail Running about this before I moved down here, there were a few options that weren't horribly priced. They were using one at their races that I don't recall the price but it was extremely reasonable, probably because the hardware costs have dropped immensely.

However I'm sure those numbers don't work out running a single short track race a year.
 
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