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		<title>Don&#8217;t Follow Your Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 17, 2013 &#8211; That sounds negative, doesn&#8217;t it? Wait and read on though, it will make sense. Maybe. Just a bit of rambling tonight as I am thinking about people and their penchant for getting stuck on an idea and refusing to let go, even when there is no sense in hanging onto it. Have you ever encountered that mindset that comes to a conclusion and simply won&#8217;t budge, no matter the evidence, no matter the arguments. I think there is a certain amount of pride involved in such cases. People hate to admit that they don&#8217;t know, or that they are wrong. We invest energy into a position/idea/direction and to admit it wasn&#8217;t the right choice seems to be perceived as a monumental undertaking that the vast majority don&#8217;t seem capable of. It&#8217;s akin to the religious mindset. Once the indoctrination takes hold, there simply isn&#8217;t any point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Prism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Kirk and I rode down to Washington for the day. We got a late start and, as a result, we were on the Lougheed just past the Haney bypass, near 11:30am, or somewhere close to then. I first noticed the cloud (??) on the straight stretch where the road becomes single lane until it widens again before Mission. At first I thought the sun was reflecting strangely on my visor, casting a prism on the surface. But when I lifted it to check the phenomenon was still there to see with my bare eyes. I kept thinking it would disappear quickly so didn&#8217;t pull over to dig out the camera from my tailbag. Now I wish I had because it didn&#8217;t go away quickly. It was like someone was shining a light through one of those little glass prisms and a rainbow effect was on a spot in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Closed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Road Closed! The road to the mid-way parking lot isn&#8217;t open yet) June 15, 2013 &#8211; 450km. That was our distance today. It was supposed to be farther, but we got a late start. In the end, it was probably just as well it wasn&#8217;t farther since the seat on my new bike is far from broken in and after three or four hundred kilometres, my butt really hurts! We rode out to Sumas via some back roads and then rode up to Mount Baker. This will be the Kawi&#8217;s first trip up there, and it&#8217;s a challenging road near the top. The new bike is a much bigger animal than my old bike, but I figured with 2500km on it now that it was time for a bigger challenge. Baker is always a good one. The ride up was good, I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect by way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24-52-2013: Sunny Skies and Cloudy Attitudes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 14, 2013 &#8211; This morning, when I took the bus downtown, the weather was not so nice as in this reflection, neither was the attitude of the woman sitting across from me. I sat down and a moment later a woman sat down across from me, and she plunked a small child in the seat next to me. The boy couldn&#8217;t have been more than four, and he was well behaved, an ordinary, cheerful, somewhat chatty and inquisitive kid. I don&#8217;t know if the woman was his mother or his nanny, but she was nasty. She snarked at him loudly a couple of times, something about &#8220;Do you want me to repeat what you said last night for everyone to hear?&#8221; And then told him to sit there and not get up. I faded out for a bit, watched the inlet slip by under the bridge, and then as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstractly Stacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 14, 2013 &#8211; Had today off and after lazing around home for a couple of hours I made a phone call and ended up downtown for a spontaneous hair appointment and lunch with a friend. Meandered through the city for a while afterwards, browsed in Chapters, MAC, and then wandered along Robson Street. Robson Square was unusually empty and I caught a shot of the steps without people. 113 in 2013 &#8211; #109 Abstract]]></description>
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		<title>23-52-2013: Ninja</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 03:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 09, 2013 &#8211; Bit of everything today. Cold, warm, hot, cool, sun, cloud, rain… It was one of those days where you shouldn&#8217;t trust the weather report and leave your rain gear at home. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Well, not really all that bad since it didn&#8217;t rain all that hard, not for that long. Late last week I got the new bike over the 1000km and yesterday got it in for its first service, then rounded out the weekend by bringing it up over 2100km, followed by a good wash. Feels like I&#8217;ve hardly ridden it at all, but it&#8217;s not really all that bad considering April mostly rained, I was away the second and last weeks of May, and also away most of last week. But for what little we have done together, the Ninja and I are getting along well We got a typically slow Sunday start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Day Island Hatchery Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 6, 2013 &#8211; Almost 800km to visit six Vancouver Island hatcheries over four days. A chunk of that on rough and dusty logging roads. And almost all of it sunny. Can&#8217;t ask for more than that for a working road trip. Have I mentioned that I love my job? I am on the technical committee for a project that will see the Snootli Creek Hatchery in Bella Coola go through a complete rebuild to the tune of $20+ million dollars. It&#8217;s an amazing opportunity to be involved in a project that will take the best ideas from all of the other major Salmon Enhancement Program facilities, consider ways to maximize fish health during culture, allow a thoughtful consideration of people flow, water flow, and fish flow within the facility, investigate all of the leading edge technology, build in maximum flexibility, and a plethora of other things. (Loki doesn&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>22-52-2013: You&#8217;ve Got Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 2, 2013: I love rural areas in the US if for no other reason than the mailboxes. Today was a bit unplanned, and aren&#8217;t those types of days the best? We took a look at the MLS for any new listings that might be of interest. Nothing. Open Houses? Ditto. So that left the day free for other things. And since the weather looked great, it was a perfect day for a ride. We figured the first weekend of June was a bit early for Mt. Baker, so we opted for Chuckanut Drive and lunch in Edison at the Longhorn Saloon. The traffic was relatively light, and once we crossed the border it always seems friendlier as far as drivers attitudes towards riders goes. We took a route I found that makes a normally short trip to Bellingham take almost two hours. It&#8217;s awesome! The route winds along the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 31, 2013 &#8211; Driving comes with a huge responsibility. It&#8217;s not just about drinking and driving, it&#8217;s about being distracted while behind the wheel. A car/truck is a powerful weapon when used in an irresponsible or aggressive, immature, or distracted manner. I took the opportunity of a decent day to ride from North Vancouver to Chilliwack for work purposes today, and as always, the lack of attention to the road by some drivers just terrifies me. I hate the freeway on the bike, but because of time of day, just didn&#8217;t have any other good choice to get where I had to go. I watched a truck travel from Grandview all the way to Chilliwack without ever leaving the left hand lane. I rode for stretches where there was one car in the right hand lane and 10 cars bumper to bumper in the left. Why on earth does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good [End of] Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spend so much time trying to squeeze every ounce out of life, and we try so hard to not think about the end of it all. I think if we live a good life and are considerate of each other and the world around us, offer everything we can to make life and the world better for as many as we can, then we have made a good contribution. But what about the end? This is a thoughtful presentation on that topic. Worth watching.]]></description>
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