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<\/a>Research fail! This is the Pemigewasset River, which features as a roadblock to my main character in my WIP. But look at it! It’s at most 2 ft deep! She could just wade across. I guess that’s yet something else to fix in the next draft.<\/p><\/div>\n
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So yeah, it\u2019s Boj\u2019s birthday today! Woo! Married to an Xity-X year-old! That\u2019s actually what we\u2019re doing here in New Hampshire. Her birthday coincides nicely with Thanksgiving, and we both like climbing mountains and looking at foliage and the beauty displayed by the Appalachian mountains, notably the Green and White variety, and so we make a point of coming down to either Vermont or New Hampshire to spend the long weekend climbing and taking in local cheeses and beers and whatnot. On our hike today, she even brought up the idea of spending a month or two of retirement life each year in a rented cottage in the Greens so we could get our hike and bike on as much as we wanted. Retirement\u2019s a damn long way off, though.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Hiking near Newfound Lake (yes, we pronounced it like Newfoundland)<\/p><\/div>\n
Present-wise, it\u2019s been a little tough for her this year, as while I have told her what I\u2019m getting her, we haven\u2019t had the time to sit at the computer together for the ten minutes it\u2019d take to order exactly what she wants (What she wants is a set of Dill Pickle Bags<\/a>\u00a0but I want to make sure I get the right ones, of course. 2015 promises to be the year of randonneuring). The kids, in the excitement and rush of getting out the door and on the road to NH left their present for her at home. Doh. And by \u201cthe kids\u201d, of course I mean me. If you must know, the \u201ckid present\u201d is Frostbike<\/a>,\u00a0though I agree that it\u2019s preaching to the choir, as Bojana is a dedicated winter cyclist.<\/p>\n As an aside, I described to her my plan for winter biking a couple of days ago (I\u2019ve been looking for a use case for the Rocky Mountain Metro that\u2019s been hanging, lonely, in the garage since I bought the Opus. It involves biking to the Kanata Town Centre (2 km), then hopping on the 96 to my new office) and she gave me a sceptical look. \u201cYou don\u2019t like being outside when it\u2019s cold,\u201d she said. \u201cYou realize winter biking means being outside in the cold, right? And then being on a bus wearing too much clothing. Right? Are you sure this is something you want to do?\u201d While she has a point, I do want to follow in her footsteps and I think I can hack it. It\u2019s only two kilometres, after all. Two cold, cold, kilometres\u2026<\/p>\n So anyway, Happy Birthday Boj! Woo!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n