Life Experiences

A tree on the sidewalk in downtown Denver, on Wazee, between 17th and 18th streets, wants to grow into the human passageway.

Trees that overhang roads give you some idea of the size of the biggest vehicles that drive along the road.

Although I can’t find it on the sum total of human knowledge, the World Wide Web, I have a memory that one of the Enlightened Unix Masters, Dennis Ritchie or Brian Kernighan maybe, wrote some tips about how to format written input for the venerable troff typesetting system.

I had to take my car for emissions testing again. I visited Air Care Colorado Fort Collins this time. It was mildly better than the Greeley location.

I got an interesting letter in the US Postal mail.

In September of 2020, I still subscribed to the Denver Post, Denver’s only remaining daily newspaper. I got the Wednesday and Sunday editions in paper because I’m a dinosaur. It’s just more fun to read the funnies on paper. I started to read the Letters to the Editor and editorial pages.

During the midst of the COVID pandemic, I was in the habit of taking walks through my neighborhood.

I commute from northern Colorado to Denver, mostly on I-25 between US-34 and the Park avenue exit. I have been noting hazardous material placards since 2025-04-24. Here’s what I’ve seen.

Other weird stuff on I-25

I’ve decided to stop sinning, and give up buying lottery tickets. That means this post is calendar 2025 lottery winnings summary.

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• Q1 2024 Winnings
• Q2 2024 Winnings
• H2 2024 Winnings
• Q1 2025 Winnings
• Q2 2025 Winnings

I ordered an ergonomic mouse from Newegg.com. My ordinary mouse was making my hand hurt from pinching it between thumb and pinkie of my right hand.