Year: 2026
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Standley Lake
I have continued to spend a good portion of my weekends walking and exploring. Three weeks ago I decided to try to walk all the way around nearby Standley Lake. I discovered it is not possible to do so on trails, because a large portion of the area is a bald eagle breeding ground reserve.…
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Little Dry Creek Trail
Two weeks ago Saturday I decided I wanted to take a long walk on the weekend. It was only about 5C, but sunny, so I figured it would be fine. I bundled up in my coat and thermal jeans. I wasn’t 100% certain where I would go. I am trying to get to know my…
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Power walking
No, it is not what you are picturing. I did not walk extra briskly wearing a jogging outfit today. Rather, I walked 1.2 miles to the supermarket and back. The way back is mostly uphill, and I had my backpack full with 10 cans of chickpeas (because they were on sale for 10/$10) and a…
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Walking
I just moved (back) to Colorado this week and I have been exploring my new neighborhood by walking. One of the nice things about Colorado is that the sun shines a lot, even in the winter, so taking a walk in the afternoon is a great way to get a bit of exercise, since my…
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Elasticsearch type gotcha
I recently was working on updating some elasticsearch tests we have for WordPress.com. We have so-called isolated tests, which use a real MySQL database and a real Elasticsearch test cluster. We create sample blogs, posts, and so forth, store them in the database, which triggers our hooks for indexing into Elasticsearch, and then we make…