Recent Locations#
- Location 1: Agness, OR
- Highlight: Drove over Bear Camp Road for the first time this year to get to Agness. Very clear and beautiful day.
- Location 2: Big Sur and Monterey, CA
- Highlight: After my race on Saturday, we drove to the coast and stayed at a hotel on the south end of Big Sur. On Sunday we drove through the entirety of Big Sur until we got to Monterey. After securing a campsite at Veteren’s Park, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. So Cool! Many other things of note for this trip, should do a longer post about the weekend.
- Highlight: After my race on Saturday, we drove to the coast and stayed at a hotel on the south end of Big Sur. On Sunday we drove through the entirety of Big Sur until we got to Monterey. After securing a campsite at Veteren’s Park, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. So Cool! Many other things of note for this trip, should do a longer post about the weekend.
Work This Week#
- Finalized the purchase order for all the camera gear we need this year. Should be here next week
- Went to Agness to troubleshoot some sensor issues. Turned out to be very minor issue, very easy and beautiful, sunny day. Not quite warm enough to take a swim in the river, but definitely looking forward to taking a dip on the next visit.
- Technical Milestone/Project Status: Camera Ops are moving along nicely. Feeling very stressed about the amount of work to do in the next 3 months, but starting to feel hopefull that it will all get done.
Personal Projects This Week#
- Current Focus: Building this website.
- Progress: Making design and formatting improvement. Getting the ‘bones’ established. writing some content for the site, hence this post.
- Next Steps: Flesh out the look, keep writing posts for the blog. populate the ‘About’ section.
- Background Focus: Continue digitizing this large stack of vinyl records.
The Week in Training#
- Training Phase: Recovery
- Key Workout: Key workout this week was mental: had a phone call with Coach Tom to establish training for the next 10 weeks. He will help me get ready for PR at Oregon 70.3 in mid July.
- Feelings: Gradually moving to 100% after race was total destructive on the legs and shoulders.
Reading and Listening This Week#
- Song of the Week: If I Could Only Fly - Blaze Foley
- Current Reading: Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
- Quick Thought: Picking up this series again after reading first in like 7th grade… picking up a lot more this time. I need to get more into sci-fi, I have totally devoured the first couple books in this series.
A Cool Website I Visited This Week#
- Cool Site: https://cascadiamesh.org/
- Why it’s worth a click: Very cool and informative website about the PNW Meshtastic network. Never heard about this until a coworker mentioned it the other day… turns out there is a very robust communication network independent of the cell providers and the internet. Decentralized, resilient, cheap, expandable… lots of intriguing applications come to mind.
Rose And Thorn:#
🟢 The Best Thing#
Safe traveling during the race weekend and all the travels down to California. No real issues at all, other than the absurd price of gas (almost $7.00/gal at some stations!). Race went well and the whole weekend was a lot of fun.
🔴 The Worst Thing#
Honestly nothing too bad this week… guess my mental state could be improved, but I think thats just the result of coming off the race being a little slower than I hoped for.
End of Log.