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Outside for a break..

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A few pictures from todays ride. I had a final last night and it went quite well, might even pull off an A in the class. So I spent first three hours of the day on my bike today.. Great weather, and empty trails. Things aren't really that bad sometimes. Tall Photo showing some off camber roots.. Screw this up and you're in the Fenton River. These ridgelines were cut by glaciers. They have a cool name, but I forget what it was.. Notice how the crank is under water.. The mud was much deeper than it looked. I rode into it, sunk, and jumped off the bike as it stayed stuck. Some more rooty riverside trails. This trail spends most of it's time right by the river.. Pretty nice if you ask me. Saw a fisherman and didn't have the heart to tell him UConn drained the river last year for drinking water and killed all the fish. 

The view from the top..

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Case Mountain, overlooks downtown Hartford, just to the right of the little tree.. Too hazy to really see it though.. I think it's the humidity.. and a little pollution I'm sure. Nice place for the nap at the top... 

Weird Nature

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Some pictures from the latest trip to Case Mountain.. The trees Have Eyes.... Or tumors.. This one has some serious issues.. Or sometimes they are just creepy in general.. Imagine this under moonlight.. Reminds me of sleepy hollow. -JRP

Torturing Fiberglas

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I spent most of Saturday breaking around forty of these little guys by twisting and pulling on them with a big machine known as the In Plane Loader or IPL. It grabs both end of these pieces and does whatever sick combination of pulling, sliding sideways and rotating we tell it to. We hope to take the data from these tests to develop a model that can help predict failure in a complex composite structure. Or something like that. It was in the mid seventies and sunny on Saturday when I was inside all day running tests, and mid thirties and raining/snowing today when I had the day off. Go figure.

Sweet weather

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Forecast Conditions High /Low °F Today Apr 20 Sunny 76° /42° 0% 0 % Summer Car Care Tips Fri Apr 21 Mostly Sunny 59° /37° 10% ...

Man...

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I wanna go on vacation too.. My parents are in a plane going to Belize, and my granpa was just in Pheonix.. Oh well, at least it's raining in CT right now.. Uncle Billy and Granpa Zeke overlooking Pheonix..