Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up earlyish, more interviews in the morning,
COOL TC call in the middle. Lunch, sync with Eloy
& Simon.
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J&N cooked dinner for us, caught up with
bloging action.
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Plugged away through the day, did a last round
interview of a number of people.
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Sync with Eloy & Noel, slept a bit.
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Drove out for dinner with Christian - so nice
to catch up.
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Worked on and off through the day, trying to
catch up - J&N. went for a run and then to Target.
Caught up with Simon.
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Out in the evening by commuter-rail for a
lovely dinner with Miguel in downtown Boston - back
lateish.
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Up earlyish, still a painful back - there is
a thought that I should actually do the exercises from
the physio - so tried that.
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On to the Carlisle Congregational Church with
Joel Schofield - great talk on Psalm 131, enjoyed
catching up with some smart cookies afterwards -
learned how satellites shed heat, how heat-pipes work,
government project management and much more.
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Out for a Diner brunch with T&B, bid a sad
'bye to H&M. at Logan, swapped the car for a less
odiferous & maggot infested machine - nice.
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Slept badly, B. made a fine breakfast,
went for a walk around a reservoir, then on to see the
Woosocks - our epic support drove them to a 9:1 loss.
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Home for crumbly cookie birthday cake with
candles and singing to celebrate M. whose house
contract was finally sorted out.
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Got some of the more critical E-mail handled,
various pieces signed while J. went thrifting with
all the girls & L.
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Helped S. with some maths, played basket-ball
together (badly on mypart), adjusted his biked' bowden-
cable to fix the gear change.
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Chat with Sebastian at some length.
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Off to visit Richard & Danielle at their
lovely house in Newburyport, enjoyed fine food, and
good company, for much of the afternoon & evening,
and a short tour of the town - inspiring.
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Watched latest Silo late.
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Up late, looked after S&L - J. did some
art work with them. Walked to the nearby farm for
ice-cream with H&M through the forest, while
J,N,E shopped.
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Home. Bob & Carol over in the evening
for a BBQ, talked until late at night
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Up early, out for a run with J. breakfast.
Quiet time, hung out washing together. Relaxed with the
babes, snoozed.
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Waited for a new cooker to arrive. Visted
Level 99 - an
amazing experience for a couple of hours; ate there,
home.
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Up early, packed, curious breakfast. Returned car
to the airport, TSA, two flights back to Boston.
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Rented new car with an odd smell, off to T&B's
for a pasta dinner. Up late chatting to Tom & the girls.
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Up earlyish, breakfast in the babes' room together
Packged, drove north to Lamar valley.
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Saw lots of prong-horns, bison, a badger, coyote,
buffalow, Osprey nesting and some Bald Eagles. A
good haul of charistmatic mega-fauna.
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Lunch out of the back of our cars. On to Mamouth to
enjoy the springs and the slowly growing rock pools of
interesting colors. Ice-creams & visitor centre.
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J. drove us back to Boseman's Days Inn, out for
a meal nearby, watched Silo with H, bed.
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Left the Tetons, listened to a sermon together
while driving north back into Yellowstone Canyon.
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Stopped off at a beautiful lake to get some
fine photos. Lunch on the side of the road looking at
Buffalo.
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Off to moose falls, then checked-in at the
Canyon lodge.
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Walked through some steaming sulpherous vents,
and then down the top of the amazing canyon admiring the
colors, rock formations, waterfall etc.
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Back for dinner at the Canyon Lodge cafeteria.
Watched some Silo intermittently with H.
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Relay ferried the family to the star gazing
session, lovely show, with lasers to point very
effectively at constellations. Bed late.
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Up late, into Jackson Hole to Genevive's for a late
breakfast. Shopped in town a bit.
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Off to Astoria hot springs for a very relaxing
afternoon in the sun, alternating between a hot and freezing
plunge pool. Record freezing times from Thomas and Hannah of
three minutes without hypothermia.
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Pottered back via Target, got pizza at the very
unhelpful Hand Fire Pizza, took refuge in the pouring rain
under a handy tent near the nearby Church.
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Ice cream, the Jackson Hole then the shoot-out,
before going back to our AirBnB.
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Up early, breakfast out of the back of the car.
Drove to Jenny Lake, walked around it with the babes while
T&family took the boar. Saw a moose on the way enjoying
some river weed.
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Hiked up to insipration point for some amazing
views of mountains & lake with amazing superposed
ripple action.
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Walked some way into cascade canyon, enjoying the
freezing stream and lovely views; ran out of water by the
stream. Walked back somewhat parched.
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Off to Signal Mountain for a pile of natchos, saw
some oxbow bends, drove south to near Moran for a fine AirBnB.
Watched Sheep Detectives
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Up early, drove south to see the prismatic pool with
some Elk on a pinacle to see first.
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On to sea more thermal pools at the edge of lake
Yellowstone. On to another visitor centre for lunch and a
lovely view of the lake. Watched an interesting video
about the park, and symbiosis between Whitebark pines and Clark's
nutcracker.
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Drove south again into the Grand Tetons park, enjoyed
views from Jackson Lake Lodge. Onto Signal Mountain Marina for
swimming in the cool water and some kayaking.
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Checked into Coulter Bay - lovely log cabins; out for
some bison burger dinner, with a walk around the ~water free
Coulter Bay area - with shutdown marina. Sunset over the
Tetons, and dusk, bed.
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Up early, breakfast together. Off into the park,
enjoyed some vents and boiling mud.
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Off to see Old Faithful, had lunch waiting for it,
wandered fields of geysers of different frequences. Back
for ice-creams & the tourist centre.
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Drove in a loop through the park seeing our first
valley full of Bison, some Elk, beautiful vistas, enjoyed
the views of Yellowstone lake.
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Home, girls browsed expensive tat shops: bit
depressed by the many tasteless T-shirts on offer.
Chicken & pasta dinner, relaxed and listened to T's
AI generated music.
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Up at 3am, Ubers to Logan, met up with H. & M.
coming from their airport hotel. Flew to MSP, then Bozeman
Big-sky.
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Shopped & drove south through Montana to
West Yellowstone. Stopped of for lunch by the river
together.
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Arrived, unpacked at AirBnB, got some bear-spray,
saw some elk, fine scenery, a waterfall.
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Home for rice & chicken cooked by N. and T.
Relaxed, bed early.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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