Sunol, on the trail of Venona

To retrieve a clue for a geocaching/cipher solving puzzle game the bay area geocachers have been doing the last few years, I hiked up the hill in Sunol Regional Park. Erstwhile communist spy Venona annually issues a challenge. This year he has stolen the Venonium 263 cache. The previously decrypted message was an image of […]

Dumb (and sad) things said to preachers

Back a few months ago, The View From Marrs posted the Top 10 Things Heard by Christians. These are actually dumb, outrageous statements made to the blogger at various times in his Christian ministry. One of them was:

“That baptism was not valid in the eyes of God because it was not done in […]

Hike in Pleasanton Ridge

Yesterday Dan and I took a little hike in Pleasanton Ridge, venturing to the north border of the park. The weather was perfect. The elevation graph recorded a 14 mile hike with over 2,000 ft of climbing.