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Hiking with my Daughter

This post is a story. It is fairly long one for a post – about 5,800 words. It is about a hike my daughter and I took in early July, 2018. But it also contains back stories about events leading up to that hike. All the stories in this post have a common theme. I’ll let the reader figure out what they are. Comments are welcome.

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4 am thoughts

It happens more often than we realize. It’s 4 am and our subconscious pokes our conscious and says: “Wake up! I got the answer! You went to bed thinking of some problem. While you, or your conscious self slept, your subconscious worked to solve the problem. More often than not, it comes up with a […]

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How AI may happen

This won’t happen: It’s 2031 and you just woke up and grabbed a  freshly ground  cup of coffee from your morning machine. You walk into your media room and the screen turns on automatically to the news.  You hear:”Good morning Fred.  Today, Super AI is now available to be purchased. You may get it for only […]

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Jack Ryan Wilbur – RIP 1997 – 2018

Tomorrow, June 27, we leave to drive to Massachusetts to attend services for our grandson, Jack.   On June 22, 2018, around 8:30 pm, Jack was on his motorcycle traveling at a speed he should not have been going.  A car turned in front of him and in the process of trying to deal with that, […]

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May 2018 – Update

Here it is mid May already.   Delaney spent a week with us.  She and I took a road trip from May 8 to 11 to Massachusetts to visit family.   Note to self: don’t ever offer to pick up the tab for dinner with this crew. They drink and eat well and let you pay for […]