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spencer RIP 1989 VW Golf. I'll fondly remember how you took us all over Europe with no complaints and how surprised everyone with their fancy BMWs always was that we comfortably fit 3 car seats in your back seat. I hope you enjoy your second life of service supplying spare parts to other old VWs.

Just after dropping Geneve off at a friends it had a clunking sound and then died - timing belt gone. So we coasted it to the local VW shop and gave them a bit of money to take it to the junk yard.

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Anita on Monday July 18, 2011

Spencer Marin and I just got back from a road trip down south, visiting family along the way to Gulf Shores, AL where we have vacationed forever. On the way down we were wondering how you and Harmony were able to fit 3 carseats in your little Euro car :) Never would have thought that 3 carseats could fit in the VW! Congratulations on your timing with the timing belt and your new roomy van! and good luck getting all settled in!

spencer on Monday July 18, 2011

Thanks Anita. The Golf just had a flat bench seat in the back with no arm rests on the doors - so they all just fit in easily actually. It was a great car for us.

spencer Harmony signed me up for 100 km bike ride in Lausanne yesterday. I was supposed to come home immediately afterwards to see Paisley's dance recital but I missed my train home and it was as fast to ride home. So I ended up doing 180 km (110 miles) total and saw the very end where the dancers walk off the stage. The weather was beautiful and so was the scenery. Too bad I missed the dance :(

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harmony on Thursday May 26, 2011

your wife is awesome...and so are you. :)

spencer I find this lyric from Bono (U2) very profound: "Some things you shouldn't get to good at - like laughing, crying, and celebrity". Just take out the celebrity part to make it applicable. I think he's right.

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direct link | on Saturday March 12, 2011

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Cycling in February

spencer on Saturday February 5, 2011

Another weekend of awesome weather (into the 50s), so I took the bike out and did my longest ride yet this winter. 90ish km (which is 55ish miles). I'm dead but it was great. Up St. Cergue over to Col de la Faucille and then back home.

http://runkeeper.com/user/scroundy/activity/25171849

And I got an amazing view of Mt Blanc and the Alps from across the lake with a bit of fog, but a huge difference in the inversion we've been in this past week - this is my iPhone cameras interpretation of that view:

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harmony on Tuesday February 8, 2011

awesome view. Glad you got in a nice long bike ride.

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spencer This January is the best music month in a long long time: new releases from Iron & Wine, Cold Ward Kids, The Decemberists, Cake, and a new R.E.M. single. I hope this is a sign of a good music year to come. Check them all out if you are cool.

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harmony on Thursday February 3, 2011

we are cool

spencer I feel the personal responsibility to help those I know stay safe online. Part of that is having a secure password you use. To check how secure your current password is, go to this link and see. Suggestions for a more secure password: use phrases (spaces included), replace symbols for letters, make it as long as you can remember it. I also use http://supergenpass.com (but it is a little geeky) to make my passwords more complex.

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

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direct link | on Sunday September 12, 2010

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becky on Tuesday September 14, 2010

My main password would take 633 million years to crack. Is that good?
My second one would take 117 days. Maybe I should change it.
How good is your password?
(Yes, I realize I should have different passwords for everything but that is just crazy! Who can remember that?)

spencer on Tuesday September 14, 2010

Wow, impressive Becky. It must be a long password. My google account password would take around 10 million years. My normal, lame password takes 252 days. My really lame password takes 6 days.

spencer The weather was amazingly beautiful today. After spending some time at the beach on the lake with the family (for our pictures) I rode up col de la faucille into the Jura and this is the view I got. Normally the skyline is too hazy to see Mont Blanc, but today you can see Geneva, the lake, and into the French Alps. The Jura are the mountain range are on one side of Geneva, with the alps starting on the other side of the lake. http://runkeeper.com/user/scroundy/activity/16265111

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direct link | on Saturday September 11, 2010

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UncleSteven on Sunday September 12, 2010

CHOICE...!!!!!!!!....THE "JUICE"

harmony on Monday September 13, 2010

that is an amazing picture. And also amazing considering it was taken with a phone.

spencer

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direct link | on Thursday August 19, 2010

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spencer on Thursday August 19, 2010

We, and our car, did it and we are back and enjoying a day in Geneva. 7 days; 4 hotels; 1700 miles; Reutte, Vienna, and Salzburg Austria; Rothenburg ob der tauber and many other towns along the romantic road in Germany. Lots of fun and memories on what Paisley called our Castle trip.

This picture is from Salzburg.

spencer on Thursday August 19, 2010

Oh, and I forgot to mention, one halfway potty-trained baby.

UncleSteven on Thursday August 19, 2010

Wow, from my home and life to yours, I get the a bang out of your adventure, and enjoy your trips to all the places I will probably never go, or see, but to hear you are doing this with a halfway potty-trained kid, is just more amazing and filled with incredible intrigue...the "Juice"

harmony on Monday August 23, 2010

We're cute! And it was such a fun trip!

Artigam on Monday August 23, 2010

You guys are super cute, and what a neat trip!

GrandpaC on Monday August 23, 2010

Do I understand you're returning stateside in the summer '11 ? If so, then what? A curious grandpa

harmony on Monday August 23, 2010

That is indeed our plan curious Grandpa of mine. I cannot foresee an impediment to that plan at this point. We would return to the So Cal office of KPMG and live somewhere in Orange County.

MiriamChild on Thursday August 26, 2010

Cool... can't wait for you guys to live here again! never got to experience having you guys around. I'll get to visit you!! yay!! :D That's awesome all the places you guys went to. . . Glad you had an awesome time!! Miss you guys, and i'm very happy for you!! LOVE YOU LOTS!! :D

Peter312 on Sunday September 5, 2010

I hope it all works out that way, but I will wait and see it happen before I plan on your return.

spencer As of my 120 km ride today I've done over 2000 km on my road bike since I got it in mid-May!

http://runkeeper.com/user/scroundy/activity/14254545

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direct link | on Monday August 9, 2010

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spencer to harmony : Hey. I like the new banner on your page, and your new profile picture. Love summer!

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direct link | on Wednesday August 4, 2010

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spencer Finished my first century + ride. It is called a century because it is 100 miles. The route I took was actually slightly longer than 100 miles (since you can't cut through the lake to shorten the ride). I went around Geneva Lake (one of the largest lakes in Europe, called lac léman in French). I got poured on at the other end of the lake. The first 160 km took me 5 hours 12 minutes, not bad I think for my first 100 mile ride. The last 7 km took me 25 minutes. Now I can say I did it.

The scenery was absolutely beautiful although at about 110 kilometers I stopped noticing.

http://runkeeper.com/user/scroundy/activity/13616891

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direct link | on Thursday July 29, 2010

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becky on Thursday July 29, 2010

Wow. Congrats. That is huge accomplishment.

spencer Broken Bells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Bells) is a collaboration between the Shins (very worth checking out everything they've ever done - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shins) singer and "Danger Mouse" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse) who has produced Beck, Gorillaz. And it's good.

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Tour de France

spencer on Saturday July 10, 2010

Today I rode my bike with a friend to go watch the Tour de France stage that was going through the Jura mountains where I often ride my bike. I'd never had any desire to do this since I was never into road biking before; but now that I'm quite into road biking (I rode over 300 km total this week - that's 187 miles, climbing nearly 12,000 feet in all up and down the mountains) I was thrilled to have my friend suggest we ride to see it.

I took a train out to his place in the early afternoon and then we biked in the burning heat of the day (90 f) up over the mountains and into the valley. We weren't sure where to go exactly after getting to the town "Les Rousses"; turns out the ending today was in a town a way further. We eventually made it to the finish line in time to see the caravan come through (all the sponsored cars, floats, etc.) and then the cyclists. It was a cool experience, a lot of energy. I saw Chavanel come in first for this, the 7th stage, and got a glimpse of many of the riders, including Lance Armstrong.

Here are some pictures as proof that I was there:

Picture of Chavanel on the first place podium.

Picture of me with the finish line in the background.

So, with the race over I headed back up over the mountains to head back to Geneva. I got to ride in hail and rain and some really close lightning; but I made it. The full trip was about 100 km - much less than the 165 km that the tour de france riders did; but we did it in about the same time ;)

Here's a map of where I rode:

You can see more about my ride on the site I use to track my ride activity: http://runkeeper.com/user/scroundy/activity/12621334

Thanks Harm for letting me go spend all day doing this.

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Virginia on Saturday July 10, 2010

Spencer, you are amazing! I feel like you were in the race, too. You have really taken this road biking seriously. I'm very proud of you. You are going to be in such great shape.

GrandpaC on Sunday July 11, 2010

As a lifelong advocate of constant exercise, may I also applaud your biking - - and all other means of making the most of our physical gifts !

Tami on Saturday July 17, 2010

What a great experience. I bet the energy was contagious. Congrats on all the biking you do. I agree with Grandpa Child, and you only get one body, treat it right I wish I had been more consistent with my exercising and maybe just maybe my body wouldn't be such a mess.

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spencer I've done over 1000 kilometers on my road bike since I got it a couple months ago! I'll let you now when I've gotten over 1000 miles (should be in about a month).

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harmony on Monday June 28, 2010

woot woot! good job. pretty cool. I'm happy you got your groove back.

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spencer Here's a bit of trivia that I think only my brother Daniel may know (I mean of the people that would potentially read this). Did you know that they only use one space between a period and the beginning of a new sentence here. Seems weird, but then why do we use two in America?

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direct link | on Saturday June 12, 2010

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becky on Saturday June 12, 2010

Actually, you will be glad/dismayed to know that all my teachers are now asking for only one space behind a period in America too. It is very difficult for me to write my papers and remember to only use one space. I actually have to go back and fix that little "error" in my writing now. What a pain. So you can be happy to know that you can keep your one space even when y'all come back to the states.

UncleSteven on Saturday June 12, 2010

Okay, let's see, in Europe, or any other country, there are pictures on the highway signs, or symbols for the suggested concept. While here in America, we have to write something on a sign, even though the symbol is perfectly fine as to justify the concept. The thought pattern here is, that Americans are a little slow on the uptake, being the new kids on the block, lacking culture and refinement, one thought at a time,so as to neccesitate the speech on the symbolic sign. As for writing, it comes down to, in a sentence, we convey one idea at a time, no multilayered concepts, and for visual reasons, it is easier to not make one sentence and another run together and form a runaway sentence with just one space, so in order to not lock up the American neuron firing sequence, we adopted two spaces between the end of a sentence and the beginning of another, so too as to make us different, just so one wouldn't lose the caboose attached to the train. Hence, we have speed limits on the freeways, and Europeans do not...they trust the universal mindset. So sooner or later, maybe we'll adopt the metric system, and get involved with the global scene and the universal mindset will naturally fall into place, much like the fifth pig, that wagged his tail all the way home.....The "Juice"

spencer on Sunday June 13, 2010

Insightful Steven. I wouldn't have thought the reason was so deep and cultural.

Two spaces is cemented in my typing technique. I don't know if I'll ever get rid of it. When I write a report at work my admin has to remove my double spaces.

UncleSteven on Sunday June 13, 2010

Also, Spencer, like Becky said, they are now teaching this one space thing in our schools now, because our friend Lisa came over yesterday, and the conversation came up about this subject, and she preceded to tell me the same story, and they even asked her why she was putting two spaces, and she answered because she was taught that way, so I guess over two hundred years later, we Americans, are just another set of peas in a pod, like other countries, we have excepted our pretty face status...the "Juice"

azotus on Monday June 14, 2010

Just a quick addition to this. I learned using one space about 8 years ago as an undergrad at Arizona and always wondered what why the difference. I recently came across this podcast which provides a nice concise answer to this.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spaces-period-end-of-sentence.aspx

Essentially, two spaces is a hold over from when typewriters were prevalent. So Steven is right Americans are just slow in changing... Canadians seem to be resisting the change as well.

On a more practical side if you can teach yourself to leave out the extra space your are saving your self an added keystroke, which if you add up all those keystrokes over lots of years could save you an hour or so of your life lost in that extra keystroke. Then again you might also waste that hour trying to convince your fingers that they only need to type one space.

spencer on Monday June 14, 2010

Thanks Ben. I've learned a ton now, but will probably need quite some time before I can start only using one space after a period; I'll have to find other ways in my life to be more effecient. At least I'm saved in HTML because no matter how many spaces, it only uses one.

spencer Right now I'm thinking I should have chosen to fall in love with an easier sport. I did an 83 mile ride today. I went through some amazingly beautiful areas of France and Switzerland in the Jura mountains - I climbed about a mile in all too - but I'm dead now. That makes a total of 165 miles this week.

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UncleSteven on Saturday June 12, 2010

The horse before the cart, and all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put humptdy-dumpty or Spencer, back together again...the "Juice"

Virginia on Sunday June 13, 2010

Spencer, This is great. If you keep up this pace you will be in such great shape you will be able to pick yourself up and everyone else as well.

Virginia on Sunday June 13, 2010

No, truly, I am impressed and I congratulate you for your perseverance in this demanding sport.

spencer on Monday June 14, 2010

thanks Mom.

Virginia on Monday June 14, 2010

Dad and I saw Val Gibson this morning. He was arriving home from working out (not on his bike). I told him about your 83 mile ride and he was impressed. He said he hasn't done an 80 mile ride yet this year. Way to go!

spencer 115 miles this week, of which 55 I did today. 55 miles is a lot longer than I thought it was. I did it in 3 hours: http://rnkpr.com/a6encj

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UncleSteven on Saturday June 5, 2010

Hey, 20 miles an hour, whatever the feeling that 55 miles is longer than you think, is quite an achievement. Not alot of us would take the time, or the effort to go from my home to San Francisco, let alone, think, hey, just throw the bike in the back of the truck, and trek on home...If you end up looking like Harmony, you will look like a basketball player...the "Juice"

spencer on Sunday June 6, 2010

Thanks Juice. What's maybe most amazing is that I can walk today.

bruce_roundy on Sunday June 13, 2010

Spencer- I'm impressed with the biking. I think Harmony's emphasis on fitness is affecting you!

spencer on Monday June 14, 2010

Dad, perhaps. Although I enjoy the benefits of being fit - excercise has never motivated me. That is to say, excercise for the sake of excercise. Luckily for my body biking is a sport I like for the sport of it. I truly feel like I'm flying, or completely free, when I'm on a bike. It is exhilarating for me.

spencer I did 30 miles today on the road bike, including climbing more than 2500 feet to go up the Saleve, a nice cliff/mountain overlooking Geneva on the south side. I'd liken the climb to squaw peak in Provo, but I'd like to think his was steeper (although I am more out of shape now than when I used to do squaw peak, and this was the first time I've climbed on a road bike). It was a beautiful sunny day, but a little chilly up top. My legs are very tired. I was feeling like I'd never make even at the bottom of the mountain. Then I passed an old man on a mtn bike and that boosted my spirits. Almost at the top though I noticed how slow I was really going when I saw that a small spider had managed to climb on and start spinning a spiderweb on my handlebars. I'm going to keep pushing myself though. The plan next Saturday is to do 50 miles including some climbing. Wish me luck.

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Virginia on Saturday May 22, 2010

Wo! Spencer, first it was 15, now 30, and next week you plan to do 50? I thought you were going to build up gradually. Take it easy!

GrandpaC on Saturday May 22, 2010

Way ro go, Spencer ! Atime or tp like that will keep you in great shape !

UncleSteven on Sunday May 23, 2010

I second that emotion, but Dad, learn how to type, or learn how to speak Swiss, and not the stuff you put in your milk to make it Hot Chocolate...Swiss Miss "Juiced"

spencer on Monday May 24, 2010

I am taking it easy - I'm not going to do 100 miles on one day this week for example ;)

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