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Eric Phelps

ericphelps@mastodon.social

<p>Worked in USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, UAE, Morocco, Iraq, Nigeria, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, India -- and all of them full of good people. Still working, now back in the USA.</p><p>Weekends are usually biking, kayaking, or hiking. It&#39;s &quot;urban hiking&quot; in the hidden areas everyone else drives past.</p><p>I follow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hiking</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kayaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kayaking</span></a>, so even if it looks like I&#39;m not following you... I&#39;m following you ;)</p><p>I usually post a couple times a week.</p>

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    #Walmart self-checkout. I watched someone empty their cart onto the shelf, scan each item, place it on the opposite shelf, then reload their cart. Like the normal checkout lane, but *much* slower. I place everything in my cart UPC facing up. I scan everything in the cart with the &quot;gun&quot;, never moving the items. Done in 15 seconds. So why are so many people doing it the slow way? Other stores weigh each item after you scan it, forcing you to do it the slow way. But not Walmart. I just...

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    I&#39;m back! After the last two weeks of being destroyed by the heat in only 4 miles, today I did 12 miles with a sustained peak of 102⁰F (39⁰C). Things have apparently changed from last year because my water consumption has doubled and my speed… Well, that&#39;s difficult to measure. I had breaks to repair broken microspikes and to divert for water refills. I&#39;m slower for sure, but, you know, I&#39;m still out there having fun! #hiking

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    Too darned hot! I planned an 8.5 mile hike, but by 4 miles I was completely wasted. Then I looked where I was and found I was two miles from anywhere I could bail out. So it was a 6 mile walk. You&#39;ll never know your limit if you don&#39;t try. https://www.relive.com/view/vr63znXZy8O #hiking

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    I wanted sooo much to go for a hike today, but was woken up at 5AM to fix a weather system on the other side of the world. And then my wife reminded me my month of working on sprinklers wasn&#39;t done yet. But I managed to get a small 4 mile walk in. A walk, not a hike. Because I didn&#39;t wear a backpack 😉.

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    In Montreal Canada for a week of work training Senegalese airport weather observers on their new weather system. The picture is flying over the Great Salt Lake in Utah. I checked, and yes, you can see that color line on the satellite maps. I just thought it was a &amp;quot;map tiling problem&amp;quot;, but no, it&amp;#39;s real.

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    Feeling pretty conservative about my knee, so went hiking with a buddy who recently had hip replacement surgery. Just 3 miles, which suits us both perfectly. And both of us feel more comfortable not being solo. Por ahora. #hiking

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    Someone put a sticker on a gas pump at my local gas station. It&amp;#39;s funny. The $6.55 per gallon isn&amp;#39;t as funny.

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    My knee is making an *incredible* recovery, but I&amp;#39;m giving it an easy day. Took the bike out for a quick 21 mile ride on a PERFECT day. Snakes are out more this year than in the last ten years, but so far they&amp;#39;re all pretty mellow.

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    8 mile walk in the rain because it&amp;#39;s going to be worse tomorrow. I have an umbrella and a rain jacket, I didn&amp;#39;t walk in any puddles, and I didn&amp;#39;t slip in any mud, so it&amp;#39;s all good. Relive movie is for a photographer friend of mine who visited the trail 2 days ago and said there were no flowers. I think he&amp;#39;s looking for the &amp;quot;big expanse&amp;quot; shot, while I&amp;#39;m the kind of guy who smiles at the pieces of glitter still in the carpet from t...

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    Well, it was a bit longer than I thought. What with the knee problem, I thought I might be able to do 6 miles. So I picked out a nice route and &amp;quot;thumbed&amp;quot; it on the map. Looks fine. By mile six I realized I&amp;#39;d made a big mistake about the length. But then I thought of @dieLeo who does this kind of stuff in a *walker*. Yah, I can do this. Almost 9 miles. And it really was a beautiful day! The relive movie link is to convince a friend to come with me next weekend. https:...