Distant Past
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Note: I’m a writer, and I’m between projects right now, so expect logorrhea. A less-wordy and more visually pleasing take on yesterday’s adventure is available courtesy of SpringsDuke; you can come back to mine when you have a worktime bathroom visit or are waiting at the DMV or whatnot. Further note as of December 2024: I…
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Let me wish a very merry Winter Solstice to all, and may those of us who live to ski and ski to live be blessed by snowstorms this season, and may those who prefer not to worry about frostbite or fighting with their neighbors over the parking space they shoveled out on the street during…
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Notes: The choice of “bloody” in the title wasn’t simply a tip of the hat to hyperbole. If you’re squeamish about discussion and even photographic evidence of wounds, you might want to read something else. Otherwise, established authorial quirks still apply: I used dark gray to denote the straight-up copy-pasted material, and I once again kept in…
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Note: I once again used dark gray text to indicate copy-pasted TRs from days of yore, and I kept in some of the “Editor’s notes” in which I added a description/caption for a photo for the benefit of those listening to the audio version of this write-up on my podcast. One could argue that my…
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Note: There are conventions for quoting long, multi-paragraph passages. You’re supposed to start it off with double quotation marks (at least in the U.S.), then start each subsequent paragraph with another ” but not provide ending marks until the very end of the passage. I think the every-paragraph-introductory-marks style looks weird, so while I will…
Of Mice and Mountaineers 