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Julie advised dressing up my other tuna steak with some olive oil, ginger, lime juice, and sesame seeds. Except I didn't have any lime or sesame seeds. But I did have some pecans and some chili powder with lime. And some soy sauce. So I ended up with pecan crusted tuna, finished in a soy glaze. On the side: garlic potatoes and spinach with grapefruit chunks and grapefruit vinagrette (the salad courtesy of Kaijsa). And afterwards, I mashed up some of the oatmeal cookies I'd made and mixed them in with some strawberries. In other news, I find myself mostly freaked out with the prospect of moving in a month, even though the move is less than half a mile. Despite thinking that adventure and change are both good things, they also make me twitchy.

Forecast: temps ranging from 31 to 105, with clouds, snow, rain, and clear sky expected

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The trip to Saratoga today was pretty great. Coffee on the way out of town, springtime weather, calves in the fields, nobody in giant rush driving like an asshole. Then, a short hike in the Snowies--nothing too ambitious, just trying to get the feel for snowshoes on the steep slopes on melty snow, figuring out how to walk/run/slide/sled downhill without getting too damaged, getting some perfectly fresh mountain air in the lungs. Kaijsa took picture of me: I need a thought bubble next to my head: "I am king of hill!" Down the other side of the mountatin we came, walked around a bit at Veteran's Island in Saratoga watching the North Platte coming cold and fast down the channel. Then a quick hot soak in the springs, and lunch at Stumpy's, and a look-around in the Outhouse and the Hat Creek Station before heading back over the hill, through a perfect spring rain, to the Gem City of the High Plains. Tonight, tuna steak and peas for dinner.

update

Since the roommate has moved out I've had no cable and no wireless. I thought the absence of technologic distraction would help me be more productive, but instead I've re-read the first 3 books of Harry Potter and checked out several seasons of TV from the UW AV collection. The first season of Dexter was really interesting, but I think I've lost interest. The Wire has failed to be as addictive as I'd heard, so far. Having no cable or wifi (along with the fact that classes are finished for the year) also gives me time to get back into some exercise activities. Yesterday and tomorrow: hike; today: gym. I have an image of myself in shorts and snowshoes for tomorrow's hike, but I'm glad that the pass to Saratoga is open again for the year. In another three weeks or so I'll be ready to start getting up to Med Bow Peak. Looks like a trip to Nebraska next weekend, to help George roof the chicken shed, and then a trip to Red Lodge or the Wind Rivers on the mot

odditities

A couple of weird things I've realized in the past few days: Thing 1. When my computer can't quite keep up with an episode of Bones on hulu, I actually sort of like the stop-motion/flip-book/photo-montage choppiness effect. Thing 2. Amidst all of the stress of figuring out a new place to live, the thing I'm most distracted by is the fact that the house I'm most interested in has no spot for my vacuum cleaner.

auspicious

So earlier this week--Tuesday, I think it was--I got the Rocky Mountain music update in my email. I took a quick glance through it, just to see if anything exciting was coming up. And there, to my delight, these magic words: The Avett Brothers. Aug. 22. At the Ogden. Tickets on sale Friday at 10 am. Aug. 22 is the last Saturday before fall classes start, the last weekend of summer break. Getting to see the Avett Brothers live seems like a pretty great way to end the season. I won't even complain that the show's not at Red Rocks. I'm also excited that, tentatively, Courtney and Burge and Kaijsa are gonna come along to the concert (which has since sold out). I still haven't been to the Ethiopian place in Ft. Collins, so maybe we'll make that our dinner stop on the way down. Or Sri Thai. Or maybe the Black Steer Steakhouse in Loveland--it's only been 8 years, I think, since I had their pepper steak. I'm overdue for a return visit.