End-of-the-Month Highlights Day

New photos have been added to the Life, 2016 album. I also have a new Colorado, 2016 album but it doesn't appear on my Photos page because Google is in the processing of breaking another legacy product (Picasa) in favour of their own awful offering. The old Picasa API will not show albums just created in Google Photos because Google Photos has no toggle to set an album as "public" (This is also called "irony"). I'll have to sort out the APIs another day and recode the Photos page accordingly.

-10 points from House Google.

• Events
  • Hiked in Sky Meadows Park on S 7/31.
  
  
  • Watched the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics with the Lowrys on F 8/5.
  
  
  • Went to a yoga birthday party on S 8/6.
  
  
  • Sent Titan back home and visited Old Ox Brewery with Rebecca's parents on S 8/7.
  
  
  • Went to the Smiths for some midweek Olympics on W 8/10.
  
  
  • Hung out in Boulder with Emily, going biking, hiking to Red Rocks (1 mile), and drinking a delicious Coffee Kolsch on S 8/13.
  
  
  • Hiked 7 miles on the Flatirons 1/2 trail and part of the Royal Arch trail, then had delicious Belgian beers at West Flanders on S 8/14.
  
  
  • Hiked 3 miles to Dream Lake and Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park on M 8/15.
  
  
  • Hiked 9 miles to Fern Lake in RMNP on T 8/16.
  
  
  • Hiked 9 miles to Black Lake in RMNP on W 8/17.
  
  
  • Hiked 10 miles to Sky Pond in RMNP on F 8/19 then got couples massages.
  
  
  • Drove Trail Ridge Road through the alpine regions of RMNP while listening to dance electronica by Parov Stelar that made it seem like we were playing live-action Mario Kart on S 8/20.
  
  
  • Attended the last day of the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts, featuring acrobat dinosaurs and normal acrobats, and also hiked 5 miles on Peak Trail #45 on S 8/21.
  
  
  • Hiked 7 miles up the 14er, Quandary Peak, on M 8/22.
  
  
  • Went horseback riding in Breckenridge on T 8/23.
  
  
  • Met Mike and Annie in Denver on W 8/24.
  
  
  • Visited the Science Museum and saw Ronnie Chieng at Comedy Works on H 8/25.
  
  
  • Stopped by Alexandria to visit with the visiting nephews on S 8/27.


• Projects
  • Did no useful projects this month.


• Consumerism
  • Ordered a new desktop computer in the face of sporadic IRQ crashes on the one that's almost 6 years old.
  
  
  • Decided to begin researching standing desks.
  
  
  • Got to level 230 in Overwatch.
  
  
  • Still enjoying Fargo, Season Two, and started Limitless, Season One as a lightweight treadmill show.
  
  
  • Enjoyed music by Spose, and compiled a list of fun album requests for next month's birthday.

August's Final Grade: A, two weeks of vacation in the mountains!