Adventures in Onionism

My update is that I got into Lake Sonoma, and I am number 17 on the Barkley waitlist. I was 28 last year, and the list went 13 or 14 slots deep. That means I've got a shot. The worst possibility is if I get to be number 2 or 3 on the waitlist and then don't make the trip out there, but then my name gets called, that's apparently my shot, and I go to the back of the ~1200 person waiting list. February 4, 2017 Rocky Racoon 100 March 4, 2017 Way Too Cool 50k  March 11, 2017 Marin Ultra Challenge 50-Miler April 1, 2017 Barkley Marathons  Backup: April 1, 2017 Bone Tempest  April 15, 2017 Lake Sonoma 50M May 14, 2017 Quicksilver 100K  June 24, 2017 San Juan Solstice 50 (lottery Jan 15-22) July 14-16, 2017 Hardrock 100  August 11-15, 2017 Bigfoot 200  October 7, 2017 Euchre Bar Massacre Anyway, I ran 2,178 miles in 2016. That's 10 miles more than the AT is long (or at least how long it was in 2002 when I hiked it) so I don't feel terrible, but it ...

GF and I wished 2016 good riddance together, which was fun. We had the house to ourselves for Christmas and after making pancakes and vegan (TVP) sausage Christmas morning, I found a discarded tree in perfectly good shape not half a block from my house. So we gave it a new home and decorated it with cut-outs from Science and the New Yorker . We also went to see the SF Gay Men's Chorus at the Castro Christmas Eve. Camp is definitely, definitely not my style of humor, so mostly I enjoyed it for the fact that they, unlike MoTab, would pretty clearly not perform at the inauguration of the next president even if they'd been invited. I finally managed to find GF a steel-framed bike that fits her (47.5cm Terry Symmetry), so that was her present. We took it for rides around the marina and Treasure Island. We also went to Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. I didn't really know anything about it before going, I was just looking for nearby B...