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  • City narrows new bike rack design, down to 10

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    The NYC DOT had a competition for a new bike rack design, that the DOT will produce and install around the City. Some of the designs are pretty cool. I hope that we get some cool ones installed down here at WFC. The 10 design finalists can be viewed at the CityRacks blog. I think…

  • Good to be back, sort of

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    Sunday night, after we got back to the Heights and unloaded the car, it took me about 30 minutes to find a parking spot. I ended up parking on a meter on Broadway down by Piper’s hospital around 2 A.M.. Since I was already there, I decided not to wait until the sun came up,…

  • Show you my Kanye?

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    My morning commute never fails to provide entertainment in one way or another. Today I came across this poster for the first time. Being that it is my first time on the “A” train in 10 days, it may have been up for a while already. At first glance, I thought it was a fairly…

  • R.I.P. Napoleon

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    The latest heatwave in NYC claimed a victim in the Breinholt household. Napoleon, A/K/A Napster, A/K/A Napstar, passed away last night. It was not really surprising, given that it was still probably 110 degrees in our apartment at 1:30 A.M. last night when we returned. Thankfully, the Jacks seem to be fine. Napoleon was a…

  • Roughing it

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    Actually, not really roughing it at all. I fired up the lappy tonight just to purge the files from our camera. Lo and behold I am getting a wifi signal from the lodge. Man, this is camping the easy way. Anyway, here are some pics from the various hiking excursions that we have done, this…

  • Reunion numero dos

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    Today we are in a place called duck creek, that is near Cedar City Utah. We drove to CC straight from Moon Lake, yesterday morning. We have not had service for the first half of the week, and that, coupled with the fact that we have been pretty busy the whole time, is why the…

  • No missed flights this time

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    Jake

    Thanks again to our homies for agreeing to babysit our car, fish, plants, etc… Not to mention dropping us off at the airport and keeping an eye on PJ for us. We made it to my parents’ house without a hitch. The weather has been amazing, so far. We will be going up to the…

  • WWIII

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    Jake

    Is anyone else worried about this crap? How about, lets wrap up the current war, before we get involved in another.

  • Venting about the Vent situation

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    Jake

    I feel like I have managed to maintain a fairly positive tone lately when I write. I have have delved into the realm of criticism on a few occasions, but have been good about avoiding blatant negativity. So I feel kind of bad about this, but, right now I’m totally jumping off of the positivity…

  • High Heel Insanity

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    Jake

    I can’t think of many things in this world that are more exciting than waking up at 5 in the morning to watch 500 women sprint in high heels. Today, I was able to confirm this. Reagan and our friend Becca signed up for the high heel race a couple of weeks ago. It is…