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Bike Riding for AIDS Life Cycle

A new thing in my life that’s going on?  I signed up to ride the AIDS Life Cycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles this June!  Long story short, I am thinking I’ll be good to go by June to ride 525 miles. Long story long:  I was finally talked into doing this ride […]

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Madonna’s ‘The Celebration Tour’ – Round 1

I got to see Madonna in concert again!!!  Finally!  It’s been awhile, to say the least.  My previous times are linked below: Sticky & Sweet Tour in 2008: Old Site: https://www.hobiebarnes.com/Oldsite/journal_nov08.html Madonna! MDNA in 2012: MDNA + Crate&Barrel + ETC = Awesome Rebel Heart in 2015: Finally Got My “Material Girl” I missed the Madame […]

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Hello There

Well, here we are again.  I dare say this was my longest time away from this here blog – my last post was Summer 2021!  It’s incredible how much has happened since then, and I’d be a fool to even think about recapping it all. I’m back as I got the bill for renewing the […]

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Been Through the Desert

The first few weekends of August are ones I spent in the desert. Both were nice chances to get out of the house and have what felt like normal times, even though we absolutely are not living in normal times. First up, Vegas! It had been just under 2 years since the last trip we […]

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Hey

It’s been another long stretch of time since I updated this here blog. I do in fact visit it periodically to look at memories or pictures when something triggers it, but my motivation to actually put something new here has been basically gone. Why remember this period of time? Almost all the posts I’ve done […]