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8
Sep 16

Remember this

If ever you should feel homesick, remember this: look around.

Before long, you’ll find something that is familiar and right. Take this water valve. I saw this walking back to the office from lunch today:

Albertville, the “Fire Hydrant Capital of the World” is just 100 miles northeast of where I grew up. (I remember the first time I saw that slogan on a sign outside of Albertville. Now I’m going to smile about it every time I pass by that Mueller.

Also, I mentioned I found Milo’s Tea, right? That’s brewed in the town where I lived as a kid. Same water supply.

You just have to seek it out.

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1
Sep 16

As seen on my bicycle

The barn on my bike ride home from the office:

This is on a bike path. The route is just under five miles, much of it on quiet neighborhood roads. Near the end I can enjoy a stretch of a seven-tenths of a mile stretch on this path with only the odd walker or occasional jogger. On one end is a round about, on another is a playground with a punchy little climb up to another playground and park and then the easy downhill home. In between is that barn, sitting there like a forgotten toy, out of place tucked into the suburban carpet.

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25
Aug 16

Indoor peektures

My second in-the-building bike sighting:

I imagine this won’t last long. I’m going to ride my bike to campus, but I will leave it in my office. At least until the indoor bike storage area is complete. (We have one of those. Pretty fancy, no?)

We’re one day closer to being in the television studio today. Pretty exciting stuff. We should be in there in another week or two. Here’s the tally light on camera two:

There are four robotic cameras in the studio. You can control them all from a joystick and a touchscreen in the control room. Very fancy.

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18
Aug 16

Snap! Ting, ting tong, ting

On today’s ride I broke a spoke. It wasn’t a big deal, everything worked out after I wrestled it away from the rest of the machinery. Here it is at home, after I eased my way home:

Mass and wear are the most likely culprits. My mass wore it out. So I’ll get that fixed tomorrow. Before all of that, according to my app, I hit 45.6 miles per hour. I assure you that was going downhill, so score one more for mass.

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11
Aug 16

Just a bit of the new workplace

Working in the new television studio today. Here’s the new news desk:

And here are three of the monitors in the adjoining control room:

I wonder where I’ll spend the most time while working with the television crew.

Just outside in the giant atrium, there’s the also-giant television screen:

They say it is 12 feet tall by 25 feet wide and four inches thick. Also, it has six Directv tuners which, right now, means a lot of sports:

I wonder how long before that becomes something you don’t gawk at when you walk by.