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Two of my three cycling goals were completed in the past few weeks. First, I rode Pedal The Cause 2017, the century again. I didn’t walk any this year, though I did leave out the Babler Beast loop this year. I was fighting a cold, and it was very warm, I knew if I attempted it I would struggle to finish the ride, so I cut it short and completed 93.4 miles with 4600’ of elevation gain on the route. A big thanks to everyone who helped me out this year with donations, I raised $650, bringing my lifetime PTC fundraising to $4,956.69.

On Monday August 21, 1995, I started college at what was then known as the University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR), now referred to as Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST). If I recall correctly I started at 7:30am with an Algebra/Trig class designed to speed freshmen into the math program if you didn’t test out of the class. Even though I had taken Calculus in High School I wasn’t successful at testing out. Today, May 14, 2011, I am done with college, not done in as I am not going anymore (I leave that option open) but done in as I have a college degree. Before I talk about that here are some stats.

On our trip yesterday we flew to Chicago, then down from Chicago to St. Louis. As with a lot of flights into St. Louis there were a ton of recruits on the flight making their way down to Fort Leonard Wood. Two of them were girls, sitting in the row behind us. First things first, I respect anyone who commits to our nation’s military, and I applaud them for doing so.

That being said, holy cow  are we in trouble. The first 30 minutes of the 1 hour flight were spent with each of them trying to show how dumb they were when it came to geography. Neither of them knew where Missouri was, and I’m sure you could have asked them where ANY other state was (besides Connecticut or Wisconsin where they were from) and they wouldn’t have a clue where they were on a map.

I tried to tune them out, and Jacqueline tried to drown them out with a little bit of crying, but it was hard to do. The best part, or worst, was when we finally came down out of the clouds and were about to land in St. Louis. They both looked out the window and commented on how “crappy” Missouri looked” I wanted to turn around and say “welcome to winter, if you aren’t covered in snow and white, this is what the rest of the country looks like at this time of year”.  But I didn’t, I chose to let it go.

But I must admit, they are right, it sure is brown here! A totally different kind of brown than Colorado was, and much different than California is. It is rather desolate looking.

Wow, got home from dinner tonight and the news is filled with information about Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton who apparently went nuts at Kirkwood City Hall this evening shooting 7 or more people and killing from what they say 5. Where is Kirkwood in relationion to where I live? Not far, I actually have been to the building where the shootings occured, a few times. I used to live in Kirkwood. Our office in Des Peres is in the city that borders Kirkwood.
If you're wanting to head down to San Antonio to the Big 12 Championship game, boy do I have a deal for you! You can buy 2 tickets to the big game with Mizzou versus Oklahoma, and you can get them at far less than the face value cost! I purchased two tickets thinking the game would sellout and I'd make some money on them, well I've realized that I'm going to take a loss so I'm willing to sell the tickets for less than they cost me ($140 was my cost) Check them out on Ebay, I'll email the winner of the auction the PDF file with the tickets for you to print out immediately after payment is...
I'm headed to Sedalia with my parents tomorrow, my first time to the Missouri State Fair, or any State Fair for that matter! Dad used to work the fair as a kid, I believe in the automotive logistics (read parking lot). Keep track of my flickr page for...
I was watching KETC Channel 9 today, an episode of Missouri Outdoors was one. They had a quick spot on finding their web site, www.missouriconservation.org, they said to use the URL or enter Missouri Conservation into any search engine. So I thought I'd try it out, sure enough you get the Missouri Conservation web site at https://www.mdc.missouri.gov/ Now to see how far up I can go! If you are trying to renew your subscription try this link! https://mdc4.mdc.mo.gov/applications/conmag/ConMag.aspx I cannot renew your subscriptions for...
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Chris Hammond

Chris Hammond is a father, husband, leader, software developer, photographer and car guy. Chris focuses on the latest in technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and has spent decades becoming an expert in ASP.NET and DotNetNuke (DNN) development. You will find a variety of posts relating to those topics here on the website. For more information check out the about Chris Hammond page.

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