Chris's Musings

This week, I had the opportunity to cross an item off my "bucket list" that has been there for 10 years.  I got up at the ungodly time of 2:30 AM (yes, you heard that right), and rode to the trailhead at Gray's Peak in Colorado for an 8 mile round trip and a 3,000+ feet vertical climb to the Gray's Summit at 14,278 feet.   This is my second 14er to stand on the top of, it's the first that I hiked from the peak base to the top from.  Here we are at 5:05am, at dusk at the trailhead.  Ready to go.  The sunrise was really amazing as we climbed. We took drinks from the mountain spring-fed stream (It tasted cleaner than the bottled water I brought) We saw this rockpile formations all along the trail.  I think it has some kind of spiritual significance for people, or perhaps it's just a "you're on the right path" trail marker.   I thought that Craig's air purchase was kind of dumb, that was until we were climbing at 13,000+ feet.  It's rosemary

  What does #FEXIT mean? Like recent secessionist movements like BREXIT and the threatened "CALEXIT" - it just seemed like a proper way of talking about dropping my Facebook account.  Considering that the nation of Facebook can be considered it's own political entity that comes with it's own rules, bylaws, governance, and mores, that a "Facebook EXIT" (or #FEXIT) just seems like a proper hashtag.  That is, if hashtags are valid ways of communicating in a non-social media world.   In 2007, some friends of mine on a mission trip talked to me about this new thing that people were starting to use to connect with old friends and share pictures with each other.  Being single at the time and wanting to connect with old friends through a more efficient means than email (which wasn't all that great... neither was Myspace which, admit it, you've used!).   I found this new social tool to be very helpful, and especially in the beginning I found it