Picto Diary - 10 -17 February 2026 - Office Woes

Above: My Office, Empire Lodge West Wing, Deer Valley, UT. 11 February 2026.
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Coup de Poudre. New snow (it had to come sometime). So, my office is very busy today.

Above: Dog Park, Quinns Junction, Park City, UT. 11 February 2026.

Above: LSDM Friday Colloquium, Wasatch Bagel, Park City, UT. 13 February 2026. Tal (center in image) talks Portugal. Luminaries in image, left to right: IBM, Pomona, IBM China; Theo, founder free style skiing; Tal; Princeton, Princeton, NPR boards in Miami and Park City; Forward Air, Rensselaer, Forward Air Controller, Vietnam War, 2x candidate (Dem) US Congress Utah 3.

Topics du Jour

Welcome Tal. American resident in Portugal.
Jury selected Kouri Richins murder trial.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Coming to Medora, North Dakota, 04 July 2026.
Books:
"To Rescue the American Spirit," Bret Baier (TR bio)
"American Way of Death," Jessica Mitford (discussed in context of Summit Land Conservancy search for "sustainable cemetery."
Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.
Bob Theobald nostalgic freestyle ski pics. Ski aerials are more dangerous today than ever due more vertical descent (as opposed to oblique) to end jumps.
Lindsay Vonn. Compete after injury?
Lindsay Vonn. Compete at all? Cede to next gen?
AI foreshadows doings humans once attributed to God.
Nancy Guthrie. TV overkill? Kidnapping narrative looking shakier?

La Société Deux Magots (LSDM) is a non-partisan ROMEO (retired old men eating out) group which meets daily, at 7:00 AM at Wasatch Bagel in Park City, UT. LSDM members are the rightful intellectual heirs of a group of authors and artists (Hemingway, Joyce, Sartre, Picasso, Camus, de Beauvoir) who met daily at Cafe Deux Magots, in Paris, France in the 1930's. 
http://www.LSDM-Parkcity.com

Above: Bald Mountain, Deer Valley (file image). 13 February 2026.
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Skied with 'Cake and Environmental Physicist. Fog through 10:30. Good snow conditions.

Above: My Office, Empire Lodge West Wing, Deer Valley, UT 14 February 2026.
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I had to go to the office today, even though it is Saturday. The pressures of modern life weigh heavily on the soul. What can we do but persevere?

Above: Bar Dub Steakhouse, Nephi, UT. 14 February 2026
Out and about in the Sprinter.
Freddie observes the Juab County Hills, looking east.

Above: I-15 SB. Juab County, just north of Skip-ee-oh. 14 February 2026
Out and about in the Sprinter.
In Utah, even boring freeway segments are awe strikingly beautiful.

Above: Ivins, UT. NASCAR on TV. 15 February 2026.
Move over Puerto Rico Super Bowl. Enter Great American Race! I've been to three NASCARS (two in LV and one in Homestead). Also, one MotoGP at Laguna Seca. Nothing more exciting than start of major road race. Also watched BYU beat Colorado in squeaker OT. Cougars lost one of best players, Richie Saunders for the season. Last few games Cougars have not played like likely contenders.

Above: Ivins, UT. 16 February 2026.
Granny and Freddie.

Above: Nonna Ina Italian Restaurant. St. George, UT. File image. 16 February 2026.
Dinner out with Rensselaer and Bangkok. Try the "Signature Carbonara."

Above: Factory Motorsports, St. George, UT 17 February 2026.
2021 'Wing. 12,000 miles.
New rubber.
New battery
3 recalls.
Fluids.
Ready to go.
Tech showed me how to work the reverse gear function.

Above: Wood, Ash, Rye restaurant. St. George, UT. 17 February 2026.
Bishop, Alcoa, KK, and TIMDT.

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