Journal
Thinking about building one of these…
Haven’t been very motivated to write much in the last two weeks or so, probably because I haven’t had any interesting adventures. That, plus work, work, work…
Last weekend we were in Steamboat and it was amazingly green, it reminded me of Oregon. Unfortunately I didn’t get any good pics because I forgot my camera at home and the pics I took with my iPhone aren’t that great. Plus I can’t get them to download on my mac for some reason.
Ok, my last post about the Steamboat Marathon, which was run last Sunday. I didn’t actually run it or really even consider it. The posting was an inside joke of sorts. What happened was that in 1992 we went to Steamboat to hang out with some good friends, a couple who was running the marathon. Their race would be the culmination of an extensive and very difficult training regimen they had stuck to for many months. Being a runner myself, I knew how much they suffered to get to that point. I had been training myself but nowhere near the distances they ran, which was about 20 miles regularly. But I did want to run at least one marathon in my life and so… At the last minute I signed up for the race. I thought what the heck, it’s generally downhill and I could probably get through it. I did and was able to struggle to the end, the last 8 miles were excruciating. Both of my friends had rough days, as can happen to anyone, and surprisingly I finished ahead of them. I got lucky, or rather they got unlucky. And of course they’ve been harassing me about this for the last two decades. This is called the Balthazar effect.
So… The photo at the top is a nuclear fusion reactor. Turns out that it is possible to build one of these at home. More on this later…
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