Born & raised in the 🇳🇱 just > 🌊 level. Climbed extensively in the European ⛰. Traveled ½-way around the 🌍 to 🇳🇿. Now living Santa Cruz, CA & working in Silicon Valley.
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🗳 We voted as a family in the midterm elections. ➕ I learned about Google emergency preparedness trailers. 🕶 Bart & Tatyanna visited an optometrist to measure their eyesight. ⚽ Casper's soccer season ended in smoke. ⛰The NKBV ends travel insurance for overseas members next year.
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🐒 The Google campus has Halloween decoration everywhere. 🔍 And still, thousands of Googlers like me hold a Google walkout for better equality. 🐦 At home, a baby duck is born. 🏗 I finish the bird guards for the shed's roof.
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⚜ Tuesday evening, Troop 633 held their Court of Honor. 🏕 The troop camped out at Fremont Peak State Park over the weekend. 📱 Great opportunities to try out the awesome camera of my new Pixel 3 phone.
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🚲 Tatyanna and I go on a mountain bike ride. 🐔 Our livestock is under attach from coyotes.
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💡 I went to town with additional Philips Hue lights. 🔲 One of my Tiles died prematurely. 📒 We filed our 2017 taxes! 💲 Casper & Honey help at a Pioneer yard sale.
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🚜 The shed gets roof tiles. ⌚ I lost my Fitbit. ⚽ Casper's soccer team takes team pictures.
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💡Expanding the capabilities of Philips Hue lights with iConnectHue. 🚜 Laying underlayment on the shed's roof. 📒 Completing our 2017 accounting, so we can file out taxes.
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💡 I'm making a "dumb" LED lightstrip smart. ⚽ Casper starts in a soccer league. 🏀 Tatyanna registers Casper for a basketball league. 🛠 I got myself a machine try square. 🎫 Tatyanna is a Drive for Schools raffle champion.
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This week I replaced some livingroom lights with 💡 Philips Hue smart lights that can be controlled from the 🗣 Google Assistant.
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⚜ Troop 633 refreshed the chips of the playground of the church where they hold their weekly meetings.
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🚜 We discover a dead deer next to our mailbox and bury it on the farm. 🎂 Casper & Tatyanna go all out for Bart's birthday weekend.
Books
★★★★☆ A quirky mix of science, fantasy and spiritual battle between good and evil across multiple dimensions.
Books
★★★☆☆ Ready Player One romanticizes '80 pop culture and computer gaming (of all decades).
Greater Northern Loop
⛺ We leave White River Campground listening to the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. 🗼The next day we fly home after playing Seattle tourists for 24hrs.
Greater Northern Loop
⛺️ I'm glad to leave Fire Creek. ⛰ Casper & Tatyanna hike up Burroughs Mountain for the view. 🌱 Grand Park is a fantastic meadow. 🌲 Berkeley Park is just as pretty. ⛰ The family reunites below Sourdough Ridge.
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⛺️ An early departure from Cataract Valley. ⛰ The sun breaks through the clouds at Yellowstone Cliffs 🌬 Hardly any wind at Windy Gap. ☱ No swimming in Lake James. ⛺ Fire Creek is nothing to write home about.