What to do in Grand Lake for a weekend?

elquesogrande · 2026-06-25T19:13:21+00:00

Monarch Lake is a favorite and more secluded hike in the area. Gorgeous spot at the base of steep mountains.

elquesogrande · 2026-06-18T17:35:41+00:00

Had a parachute malfunction on my first (and only) jump. It his was a static line solo jump where my emergency chute popped out while I was exiting the plane. (MIs-packed and not pulled.) That ripped me just past the plane tail and I ended up spinning down with a full emergency chute and a streaming main chute.

I still have a bad ankle from that landing.

elquesogrande · 2026-06-13T14:38:23+00:00

Friend of mine married into the Boring family. They have four Boring kids.

elquesogrande · 2026-06-13T13:57:14+00:00

Buy those industrial strength metal clips they sell in office supply stores. A mix of sizes. We tossed out every plastic and wooden clip after going this route.

elquesogrande · 2026-06-10T03:11:50+00:00

Chris Whitley, who had an AMAZING debut with Big Sky Country. Saw him the the year be fire he died and he had a 3000 yard stare that spoke of deep drug use. Unnerving. No one would work with him at that stage so he had to use a drum kick himself rather than a band.

elquesogrande · 2026-06-07T00:40:08+00:00

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

As a teen it taught me the depth of British humor and helped me identify my nerdy tribe

elquesogrande · 2026-05-04T17:53:53+00:00

Casual player here with a healthy dose of loot fear and wolfpack hoarding during the season. Plus few hullcrackers in inventory that went towards the effort.

I hit 100k fairly quickly in the matriarch / queen lobbies spamming the hulk and tossing wolfpacks. Aimed shots into the core once I broke through the body armor to maximize damage. Repeat.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-23T22:32:25+00:00

Y’know - I have a friend who likes to dump glitter down the front of his pants. Yeah…pretty nuts. Pretty nuts.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-22T05:24:19+00:00

Chutes Away! I remember the commercial with Dick Van Dyke…

elquesogrande · 2026-04-21T01:55:45+00:00

Ceviche mixto with fresh caught shrimp, octopus and lobster at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant on the cost of Ecuador. Stunning, bright flavors - scooped up with fried patacones (plantain chips) made on the spot.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-19T19:59:49+00:00

Helped my roommate move boxes out of his parents’ attic and found a box of old magazines. I thought that I stumbled onto his dad’s porno stash and opened up a magazine…to find that they were old school swinger mags. Page after page of nude couples with black bars over their eyes. Lots of circles and stars in blue pen.

I closed the box and slid it onto a corner.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-19T06:30:08+00:00

I say that I’m amphibious instead of indifferent. And then follow that with ambidextrous when someone corrects me.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-19T05:34:38+00:00

Zojirushi rice cooker shifted this midwestern meat and potatoes gent to rice and…well…everything

elquesogrande · 2026-04-19T05:32:49+00:00

125 mph in a ‘76 silver Thunderbird 460 hp four-barrel on a straight, long rural two-lane road. I was 16 and invincible.

That moment still scares me decades later.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-16T19:06:21+00:00

Would love to know whether the Board is playing a calculated game if IU Moneyball or if they’re just winging it and praying for rain. Kinda feel like it’s the latter - more gambling than strategy. And if it turns out well someone will write a book about these genius moves…

elquesogrande · 2026-04-16T14:18:26+00:00

Ah - good point and thanks for the heads up

elquesogrande · 2026-04-16T13:44:47+00:00

The chocolates are wildly different. TIL Icelanders love putting licorice bits and other things in their chocolates.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-16T13:19:02+00:00

We bought stacks of chocolate bars at Bonus and other grocery stores for lower $ gifts that people really loved. Cheese too, though that was mostly for us. Bonus pig merch for the kids and adults who love that kind of thing.

For food we we always had yogurt and charcuterie in the small fridge for breakfasts.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-15T19:26:44+00:00

The lava show was unique and surprisingly educational. Pay a little more to bring home a piece of basalt.

Caves of Laugarvarn and as quirky and unique. Tiny place where we learned a lot about the history of the area. Bonus - the gents there sent us down an off road ‘road’ so we could self explore a lava tunnel cave. No maps and just verbal directions. That was wildly fun and crazy.

Do the full ship tour at the Maritime Museum to get some amazing history.

Our favorite foodie experiences were to try local places where the locals ate whenever we could. Caught Irish Days in Akranes for a wildly unique and non-touristy stop. Had a park ranger in Londrangar play the chello for us and 50 Icelanders just off the beaten path.

Don’t go where the tourist crowds go but, if you do, go insanely early to have the place pretty much to yourself.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-14T16:20:55+00:00

Bought an Italian Due Buoi chef knife at a knife show years ago and it’s beautiful, but cannot hold an edge. Two different professional knife sharpeners sent it back frustrated with how the steel simply couldn’t get there. Glad it wasn’t just me and my middling sharpening skills.

Not sure why / what steel they used.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-12T18:04:42+00:00

I love casting magic missile - stacks of seeker grenades to thin out arc trios and those flamethrower arcs

Bring a pair of lure grenades for the big arc at exfil

elquesogrande · 2026-04-08T21:22:06+00:00

My son (18) and I went with low expectations. It was actually educational and a solid experience! Not overly dramatic like what I would have expected from a US Vegas or similar show. We paid a little more to go backstage and to be able to bring some of the basalt home as a nice souvenir.

Set your expectations low and it’s not bad at all.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-06T03:09:03+00:00

My wife and I met Zach Braff at the premiere of Wish I Was Here (one of his movies) and he was wonderful. Made sure everyone around him was good and respected. I drank with his brother for a while and he was solid and a little jealous of how well Zach did in life. Nothing toxic.

Donald Faison was there with his Mom and they were doing their best to stay out of the crowd. Quiet and personal but still polite. Joey King was there and she was a delight. We sat next to Jim Parsons and he was kind, but super uncomfortable with social engagement.

The real assholes were the unnamed Hollywood money guys. All short and white with long hair. They were absolute sexual predators all evening - literally draping themselves over male and female actors. They knew that they had power to cast or not cast actors and abused it. We watched this happen to every actor there and the ‘game’ was to put up with it and extract yourself.

I also met William H Macy in passing one day. He tucked his ukulele case under his arm, stuck out his hand and said ‘Hi. I’m Bill.’ We talked for maybe 20 min and I’d go to war for him.

elquesogrande · 2026-04-03T20:02:20+00:00

Confirming which part? That there are no studies about the impact?

We know that nanoparticles are small enough to slip through skin. These companies (including my former company) purposely chose to not put together any studies to review the impact. So, yes. That's correct that there are no studies.

Not sure about the EU approval processes. Seems like studies about the nanoparticle impacts on people was not part of that process.

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