Don’t ask me why, but back in 2015, my buddy Wayne and I decided to adopt a quest to visit all the sketchy Chinese restaurants in a certain downtrodden part of Phoenix. On this day that year, we visited this gem.

A man is standing outside a brick building with a sign that reads Chinese Food under a partly cloudy sky.A man is standing outside a Chinese food restaurant with an Open sign and a warning about video surveillance on the door.

This is one of the elevated walkways and bear gates in Katmai National Park that help keep humans out of the way of grizzlies.

A metal gate with a Keep Gate Closed sign blocks access to a wooden and metal pedestrian bridge surrounded by greenery.

What are 5 interesting things about you? I posted mine, but I’d love to read yours too.

Checking out a new brewery—Pinnacle Brewing up near the Scottsdale airpark—while getting some work done. Nice location and vibes, beer is meh, funny that the weekend bartender here is a regular at my local brewery Wren Südhalle in Ahwatukee. 😂🍻 #CraftBeer #ChooseAZBrews

A person is sitting at a table in a casual dining setting, working on a laptop with two glasses of Pinnacle beer on the table.

Five years ago today, we were able to visit Brooks Falls. We were very early in the season, but had optimized our timing around getting to Aniakchak Crater, knowing that we’d return to Brooks Falls in the future. But fewer bears means fewer tourists—so we often had the viewing platform to ourselves!

On this day in 2015

On This Day in 2019, I met my doppelgänger in the remote fishing village of Naknek, Alaska.

A few photos from last night’s moonlight paddle. It’s always great to get on the river, and especially so with a bright moon.

A calm river with reflections of surrounding rocky cliffs is seen from the perspective of a blue kayak with a yellow paddle resting on it.A blue kayak is floating on a calm river with tall grass on the riverbank and rugged mountains in the background under a clear sky.

Squiggles, squiggles, and more squiggles in 2019.

I updated my /now page so that it displays the latest /now update from a new “now updates” post category. That makes it easier to archive old updates on my /then page, and rss subscribers will now get served the updates too. I also added in my omg.lol status to the page, which I update frequently.

I just unlocked a new hell: being blocked in by a driverless waymo that wouldn’t move until its customer—very belatedly—finally got in the car. I tried to inch pass it, but it started honking annoyingly.

It was 120° in Phoenix on this day in 2016, so I showed up to my friend’s pool party wearing every warm layer I own. Come on guys, it’s a dry heat! 😂

A woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt appears cold and is shivering next to a person bundled up in heavy winter clothing with a hood, gloves, sunglasses, and a face covering.

I’m removing comments, pingbacks, and webmentions from my website in favor of what I’m calling Webnotes.

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I briefly played “Captain Scott” On This Day in 2009 during a rafting trip down the Colorado River through McInnis Canyon NCA in western Colorado. It was my first multi-day river trip, and boy was it a ton of fun.

A man wearing sunglasses, a wide-brimmed hat, and a red life jacket is sitting in a raft on a river surrounded by rocky hills and under a partly cloudy sky.
A stone marker engraved with Gadsden Purchase Boundary Line June 30th 1854 lies on a rocky ground.

Most of you here probably use some form of text replacement, but many of my friends do not. So I wrote this primarily for them, but maybe there’s a use-case in here that’s helpful (please share yours with me too).

A few snapshots from a work rafting trip down the San Juan River in Utah - On This Day in 2013.

A river flows through a canyon with layered rock formations under a clear blue sky.A calm river flows beside towering red rock cliffs under a clear blue sky with some greenery along the riverbank.A river flows rapidly through a rocky canyon under a clear blue sky.A calm river flows alongside a tall, steep sandstone cliff under a clear blue sky.

I would pay 2x as much for a fast and responsive kindle.

Ran across my Aug 2019 post about Visiting America’s most obscure National Monument in San Antonio, Texas. You probably haven’t heard of this one before… #travel #NationalMonument