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Yellowstone YMCA
They are building a YMCA in Yellowstone National Park. This is one of the promotional posters. (If you cannot read everything, click here for the high-res version. You will you will have to go back to the original page.) We were talking to the YMCA employees about pausing our membership while we were gone. They…
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Panda Express is Very Wise
Broken Arrow, OK, December 2025 Other people have contested this, but John thinks Panda Express is very wise.
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Researching Cans of Whoop-Ass
John and his friends purchased a new video game to play together. Playing solo, they seem to do okay. Playing as a group, they are doing miserable. They have a staggering 75% to 90% loss rate on most game nights. It might have to do with how the game chooses to determine the skill of…
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Happy Birthday, Dad!
No Ifs Ands or Butts* You Are A Great Dad! Love,Katie & John * Well, maybe a few butts.
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I found Robin, …
Guernsey State Park, WY, May 2025 but where is Batman?
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We Did The Math … Wrong?
Longmont, CO, April 2025 While walking through the cereal aisle, John spotted math on a cereal box. He took a picture because this challenge could not be ignored. As it turns out, this was a necessary evil. Almost everything about this marketing blurb is wrong. Problem #1 The surface area of a torus (i.e., doughnut)…
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Ah, Memories of the Good Ole Days…
Fort Laramie, WY, April 2025 The days when you could die of dysentery, rattlesnake bites, and Indian attacks at the drop of a hat. You might even have to cannibalize your team members! He never played the video came, but John played an in-person variant of this in middle school. The video game “simulates” a…
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You Can Hunt That?
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS This raises so many questions: So many questions, and so few answers.
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Yesteryear Museum or Tractor Cemetary
Salina, KS, April 2025 Driving into the park, the first thing we saw was a sign stating “Museum” and a lot of rusty old farm equipment. I was wonderful if it was a tractor museum or cemetery. Turns out it was a “Yesteryear Museum”. I believe the building in the far back also had antique…
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Tornado Selfies Are Trending
Salina Campground, KS, April 2025 Around 10 pm on Tuesday, April 1st, our phones went nuts with a tornado warning. I would have expected a tornado watch first, but no, just the warning. Shortly afterwards, it started to pour rain from the sky with pea sized hail. It was windy, but not tornado windy. The…