I just returned from the GLSKS up in Grand Marais, MI. It was a highly successful weekend, as judged by me. Doug and Corrina headed up early Wednesday on Doug time – meaning they left about 1:00 in the afternoon. I didn’t want to take the day off just for… Continue reading
Alticor has voted holidays – meaning that there are six days each year which are chosen as additional vacation by general consensus. This means that I had Friday off for the fourth and Monday off just because. Friday afternoon, I headed up to Traverse City to visit the family and… Continue reading
Josh’s wife was out of town at a food science competition for the weekend and I guess most of this week. That meant that Josh had a burning desire to get out kayaking. So we did. Saturday Josh, Doug and I headed down to East Race for some man made… Continue reading
Last weekend was the annual Western Michigan Coastal Kayakers Association symposium. It runs from Thursday evening through noon Sunday and is pretty much two full days of various classes, events, talks and socializing with other semi-local kayakers. Since Doug and I started kayaking in ’05 it has kind of marked… Continue reading
Wednesday through Friday was the 2008 Magnetics Conference put on by webcom in Denver, CO. Wednesday was the magnetics boot camp, which was pretty much a one day crash course in magnetics. In theory, this makes up for the fact that neither Josh nor I have any magnetics classes or… Continue reading
Monday I was in Novi for a work meeting with one of our suppliers. Six of us went down from Grand Rapids and 9 or so of them came up from Ohio. Lots of discussion on where we stand and where we are going as far as eCoupled building blocks…. Continue reading
The weekend of June 10th and 11th, Jeff, Oren and I loaded into Oren’s Range Rover and headed down to Slippery Rock PA for some white water action. We were joined there by Todd, Linda, Kathleen and Denis. The weather upon arrival was a heavy rain, which was a joy… Continue reading
The last two weekends I, among others, ventured across the state to run the mighty Huron river in Ann Arbor. It was good fun with good people and good students. Beyond that, this post is likely interesting to very few people. Last weekend Todd, Linda, Dennis, Kathleen, Doug, Josh, Jeff… Continue reading
The past two weekends have seen two runs on the mighty Huron river. The following is probably only interesting to a few people who likely don’t read this, so it will serve mainly as a future reference for myself. Last weekend the Huron was running at about 550 cfs. On… Continue reading
For those who haven’t met me in person, I drive a blue Jeep Cherokee. It’s old, it’s rusted, it’s dented, it’s been rolled once and declared totaled, and I don’t do preventative maintenance. I have about a five mile drive into work. Last Friday, about 3.5 miles into the trip… Continue reading