Category: irl
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Speed limits are important, even if they are frustrating.
Yesterday my wife and I drove from Central Oregon to Seattle. It took us just over 7 hours, with only a few stops along the way. We pretty much entirely avoided traffic, and didn’t speed. Even on the expressway of Highway 97 through Bend, OR. Where the speed limit is 45 miles per hour. Through…
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The end of Blaugust Reborn
Holy smokes, y’all, it’s the end of August already! I am so glad that I heard about Blaugust Reborn on the Geek to Geek podcast this year, as it’s led to probably the most productive month of my life! Originally, I just planned to challenge myself to produce some sort of content each day that…
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In Honor of Boog Boog: The first casualty of my Nuzlocke Run
A few weeks ago, I started a Nuzlocke Challenge run of Pokémon Gold over on my Twitch channel, inspired by Daniel K’s Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke Challenge. For the unfamiliar, the Nuzlocke Challenge is a self-imposed rule set to make Pokémon games harder, with three main rules: In a normal Pokémon playthrough, when a member of…
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The ABCs of Overcooked (and real cooking)
While we were camping last weekend, my wife and I wanted something to play on the Switch that was a little more goal driven than Mario Kart and easier to play in tabletop mode than Hyrule Warriors. We settled on Overcooked, a game we had only played a few levels of before on the PS4,…
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Kayaking is great (without boat stunts)
One of our favorite things to do in the summer is to get out on the water in either kayaks or on paddle boards. Normally this means a lazy float down a river (often with some inflatable rafts along for the ride), but today we decided we’d rather go out to a lake instead. We…
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