• Life @ Home

    Birthday Blog

    Happy Birthday to me! That’s right, it’s my birthday, and I’m finally adding a new blog post to the famous Gribblog. So far, I’m having a splendid time. We slept in a bit,…

  • Adventure,  Climbing,  Movies,  Traveling

    Oh Canada!

    After crossing the border into Canada (see the previous post), we headed north past several small towns. Interestingly, many are much cleaner and more affluent in appearance then their counterparts just south of…

  • Books,  Life @ Home

    NaNoWriMo

    November is the National Novel Writing Month, and I thought I’d give it a try this year. In truth, I’d never heard of it prior to this year, but with our busy schedule,…

  • Music

    Music Composition

    I thought I’d do something a little different this time, and post a bit of music I’ve been working on. It’s still pretty rough around the edges and only about half done, but…

  • Traveling

    Homecoming at Wittenberg

    Jess and I disagree slightly about the lyrics to the Simon and Garfunkel tune “Kodachrome.” She favors the “everything looks worse in black and white” version, while I prefer the “better.” Of course…

  • Adventure,  Caving

    LaSunder Cave

    Last weekend, I ran a trip to LaSunder Cave. It’s one of the caves managed by the Colorado Cave Survey (CCS) and has a rather restrictive access policy. There are generally speaking only…

  • Cycling

    Mapping My Ride

    So I stumbled upon a new website while trying to generate some elevation profiles for an upcoming bike ride. Elijah had called with his plans to ride up to Allenspark for a wedding…

  • Adventure,  Backpacking,  Technobabble

    Bring out the GIMP!

    That’s right, I like GIMP—the GNU Image Manipulation Program, that is. It’s basically Photoshop® without the cost. Actually, the fine developers working on GIMP wouldn’t really like that description, but now you know…