22 January 2025

Coldest run of this year

Somebody had posted on Facebook earlier this week that he was expecting me to call him to go for a run when it hit 16 degrees F one morning. The exact person is not important here, but let’s take Samaresh as an example 🙂

A couple of days later, when it hit 13 degrees F (and this is without windchill), I invited him to come out and run with me.

I think he said something like he was too busy posting on Facebook from his fireside 🙂 🙂

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18 January 2025

For my boater friends – can you help me? Why is red and green color reversed?

When we took the boat out in Fiji to visit the nearby islands, I noticed something that seemed very unintuitive. At least, to what I thought were boating rules.

The top picture is when we were going to the islands (in fact you can see one of our destination islands in the picture). We had just left the main dock. We were cruising out of the main area thru the channel that put us in the ocean.

Notice the nearby boat on our port side. And now notice the markers denoting the edge of the channel. Why is it green in color? Should it not be red? The rule is Red-Right-Return right?

The lower picture is from the same channel when we were returning. Note that the red markers were on our left side. Those should be green right?

Does anybody know what is happening here?

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