Today's pleasant surprise came meeting with the new accountant (old one retired to play with horses) and when he found out I went to Duke that's all he would talk about. 25 of 30 minutes wallowing in the glory that is Duke. Unexpected.
he didn't, but my understanding is that the IRS budget has been so curtailed that you pretty much have to call them up and ask for an audit or you won't get one. This guy was big into The Golf, and loved playing at Duke; I told him I got PE credit for playing the course which somewhat astounded him (do people know what PE is these days?)
PE credits were no longer required by the time I got to Duke, but I earned one anyway (they were each worth 1/2 credit by this point) by learning to fly fish and ride horses.
I don’t fish much anymore (I get bored), but I still love to ride and do so several times a year. My wife and I have hit some really cool trails in some really cool places. I’m very glad I took the opportunity to learn that skill.
Here’s a shot of me in North Dakota, just outside of Theodore Roosevelt National Park:
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TRNP is an absolute gem. The North Dakota badlands are a beautiful and unique landscape...quite different than the South Dakota badlands, so it's very much worth seeing both. Whereas the SD portion basically looks like Mars, all striated red rock and whatnot, the ND section has the same bumpy, layered rocks, but with much more interspersed green. It's also big sky country, so the vistas are just wonderful. Really good wildlife as well...copious bison, prairie dogs, jackrabbits, etc. Finally, it's pretty close to empty. We were there in mid-June, which is very much high season in the national parks, and felt like we just had the place to ourselves. So much quietude and so many places to just tromp off into a meadow and watch the critters do their thing. We loved it.
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new food discovery, a Grouper Reuben!
I am having a cinnamon raisin English muffin, toasted, with CRUNCHY pb and eucalyptus honey. Nummy.
I used the ignore function for the first time ever on DBR.