My personal glimpse into the first half of the 21st Century for some yet to be known future
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Monday, June 21, 2021
Trail 10 - Shady on a hot day
This past weekend, Allie and I drove a bit. The destination was Meyer Ranch Park (backup link) From the book, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles for Denver and Boulder, this is entry #10. Though the book lists this trail as being in the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, for all intents and purposes, this is in the Rocky Mountains. The entire park is west of the Legault Mountain Peak (9045ft). The drive here is a bit longer than places I would call "Foothills".
Meyer Ranch Park is worth the longer drive. This is a great place for a hot day. Most of the Lodge Loop Trail (that forms a full circuit at this park) is shaded under tall trees. The trail itself is very well maintained. The uphill portions aren't steep. Overall, Allie and I really enjoyed this location and will definitely consider coming back.
Saturday, June 05, 2021
Friday, June 04, 2021
Thursday, June 03, 2021
Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Found in the wild at the mall (slice of life)
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Fun and Important Words: Highfalutin
Highfalutin is a word with mysterious origins. Typically, the word means pompous, arrogant, haughty, pretentious or excessively ornate or bombastic, often in reference to a manner of speech.[1](1) However, how such a word came to mean such things is not known definitively. The alternative spelling of "hifalutin" doesn't offer any clues, either. It's common for dictionaries to claim it highfalutin is derived from the words "high" and "fluting". Although this may make sense, it is actually not likely according to other sources. Long before highfalutin was first recorded, another term meaning something similar already existed, "high flown". It seems more likely that highfalutin is a corruption of high flown. I've used highfalutin from time to time. However, my use of the work tends to carry an ironic tone. Between the spellings, ngram shows that highfalutin is a lot more common than hifalutin, these days. The rise in use of highfalutin also seems to roughly coincide with the reduction of usage for the term high flown.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Elite Dangerous Odyssey: Trying to start a bar fight, and figuring out free camera
Monday, May 24, 2021
The Balance Pin Incident: First CMDR in Elite Dangerous to Destroy His Own Ship from Another commander's Ship
Friday, May 21, 2021
I just stopped for a moment for a vista photo while farming materials at one of the Crystal Forests (Elite Dangerous)
I just stopped for a moment for a vista photo while farming materials at one of the Crystal Forests (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CO_1Kmyly5g/)