I have not updated my blog in forever. This is so bad. This is almost two months old. Well, here goes anyway.
I went to Michigan at the end of August to see my friends. I try to go to the CRIM when I can. I think this is my 5th time but I’m not sure. I would have to count my CRIM t-shirts. It’s really just an excuse to hang out with my friends. Its a charity walk / race that happens in Flint every year. We always do the 5k walk. Once we did the 8k but we were younger / skinnier then. Then again, weren’t we all? I took my camera and then forgot it in my car. I know, good one. I have a few pictures though.
This is near the end of the CRIM in flint. Its not the most vibrant of colors. I think the camera in my phone has had some sun exposure. There is no one there because most of the other people have already rounded the corner up ahead. The second one is an official photo from the photographers. They take them every year and then sell them to the participants. I’m walking with Diane and pushing Ripley in the stroller. She is playing in the puddle she made in her cup holder from cups of water we picked up along the way.
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On the way back to the car we some some college age kids fishing rubber duckies out of the river from a race that had apparently taken place earlier. The river isn’t particularly clean. There was a general expectation they would get sick afterwards. At least one had a raft. The picture next to it is the disposable RFID tags they use now. Everyone ties them to their shoes. There are gigantic RFID readers at the start and finish lines. The finishing order appears in the newspaper the following day. (We were not very close to the beginning.)
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We went to see Kristin afterwards, but I have no pictures of that. I got to see Kristin’s apartment and then she made scalloped potatoes for dinner. The Saturday of the CRIM was Diane’s birthday and we got drunk at her request. For someone that doesn’t drink it seems to me that it takes me an unusually large amount of alcohol to get anywhere. Peach schnapps + orange juice + bowls of scalloped potatoes = good times. 
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