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Telecommute

There are so many ways to make a living on the road. This is a neighbor in Steamboat Springs. Every morning brought a cup of coffee, a cigarette, a telephone earpiece, and hours of conversation. She appears to be making her living on the road. We have no idea what she is selling, or talking about, but she has figured out how to do it from a trailer in Steamboat.
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Travel update

Saturday. A winding two lane through the forest from Durango to Pagosa. An eight mile twenty-five mph uphill grind to the top of Wolf Creek, then a twelve mile, twenty-five mph ride down the other side to South fork. West to east. This is the easier way across the pass; an easier downhill going this way. It’s all about the downhill. Lunch in Monte Vista, across the San Luis valley, through Alamosa, over La Veta Pass (hardly even notice this one), down the hill to Walsenburg, hang a left, through Pueblo, and stop for the night just south of Colorado Springs. Pizza dinner at the KOA Café. Won’t make that mistake again soon. An easy day Sunday, north to the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont. We were there for seventy-two hours. Appointments, errands, kids, and grandkids. Left today at lunch; stopped for the night at Island Acres State Park in Debeque Canyon, just east of Grand Junction. Tomorrow, Utah. Utah. They have juniper titmouse in Utah, don’t they?
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Weekend upupdate

A week ago, it was Monday night, Memorial Day, we’re in Colorado, and I’m ordered to appear for jury duty at 8am Tuesday morning, in Corpus Christi, Texas, or face the wrath of the court.
I called and called, but they are not set up to receive phone called excuses. In fact, all their recorded messages as well as their website state that rescheduling is not allowed and there are no excuses.

So I wrote them a letter. I apologized for not being there. I explained why I wasn’t there. I told them I would be there in January. I volunteered to reschedule and come in sooner if they wanted, and could get reasonable notice to me. I even gave them my phone number! (actually, I gave them Judy’s phone number)

Seems like a fair response to me. What are the chances they could get that letter and be angry with me. I’d say about zero. I mean, it’s not like they’re going to issue a bench warrant or anything….. is it?



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Connection speed

We go so many different places and get so many different kinds of connections, we never know what our connection speed is going to be. There is a website we go to which will measure the true upload and download speeds. Sometime it’s as slow as as couple hundred “k” each.
This week, with the Verizon card, we get a really strange reading. We get 679 download, and 3,181 upload. That’s quite a difference between the two, but really really fast for sending stuff.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

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Rags the cat update

We thought we were going to have to rescue Rags from Becky’s house last time we were there, but he has been getting along better, so she didn’t want to give him up.
Rags is such a nice cat, and he is officially Teigan’s cat, and who wants to take a pet away from a four year old, anyway?

Good news on the cat front.