Batteries and Preparedness
Jan 25, 2023
amateur radio
Long ago I settled on non-rechargeable AA cells as the battery standard for various packs/kits for both preparedness purposes and also recreational
SpaceX Starlink
Jan 20, 2023
life in the forest & amateur radio
(While not strictly Life in the Forest nor Amateur Radio I’ve tagged this with those tags for want of some better classification.) For something
Flashlights
Jan 18, 2023
We live in a forest, and we have dogs. We need to take the dogs for walks every night. We’re pretty comfortable walking in darkness but there are
First Aid Kits
Jan 7, 2023
It’s been a while since I re-evaluated/re-did our get home and bugout bags. Some of what’s in the bags is just fine and only needs little updates to
Statistics and Preparedness
Jan 6, 2023
amateur radio & musings
Being part of the amateur radio world, and being predisposed to preparedness on my own anyway, I rub shoulders with a lot of people for whom
Aphorism for 2022
Jan 2, 2023
Every year, at the end of the year, I like to choose or write an aphorism that something I’ve learned during the past year. For 2022: “Success and
You Better Find Somebody to Love
Dec 23, 2022
When the truth is found to be lies And all the joy within you dies Don’t you need somebody to love? Don’t you want somebody to love? Wouldn’t you
Lightweight Chainsaw Bars
Nov 16, 2022
Much of what I do in the forest involves chainsaws at some point. When we moved here in 2003 we owned one saw, a Stihl 021, which is a very small
Covid Forgiveness
Nov 6, 2022
musings
Quite a few people are weighing in on Emily Oster’s call for forgiving and forgetting mistakes made during the Covid-19 pandemic. My answer to Ms.
Minimal Winlink VHF RMS Station
Nov 3, 2022
amateur radio
Since sometime in 2019 I’ve run a VHF Winlink RMS that serves the Seattle Eastside/Snoqualmie Valley area. Originally I had a VHF station and a UHF
Paypal And Acceptable Use Policies
Oct 14, 2022
musings
There’s been a brouhaha recently about Paypal’s revisions to its acceptable use policy. In brief, the new policy allowed Paypal to fine users who
Bad Influence Friends
Oct 4, 2022
ultrarunning & musings
I was recovering from an ankle injury, and was nearly all healed up. We were about to go on a trip where we would see some of our ultrarunning
Skills are better than stuff
Oct 2, 2022
musings & amateur radio
(I’m giving this an amateur radio tag although it is only tangentially related to radio. So many hams are into emergency preparedness, it makes
Stephen Park Cocodona 250 Finish
Sep 25, 2022
ultrarunning
I suggest you skip to about 5:56:00 in the video. Watch Stephen Park finish the Cocodona 250 in 121 hours, 56 minutes, 31 seconds, beating the final
Analog Thinking
Sep 24, 2022
musings
Date Sep 24, 2022 A pretty common model of how we go about thinking is this: We think using our brain, and other parts of our body are not
More on Hamster
Sep 11, 2022
ultrarunning & musings
Photo credit: Takao Suzuki It’s now four weeks on from Hamster Endurance Runs. The photo above, taken by Takao Suzuki about 15 seconds after I told
Burn it down
Sep 7, 2022
musings
Just this morning, I’ve observed several political pundits and at least one ‘activist movement’ express sentiments which boil down to ‘if I don’t
My Relationship With Computing
Sep 6, 2022
musings
A week ago I was at a dinner party celebrating the opening of a new production of King John at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It was a festive
Compactenna 2m/440+
Sep 5, 2022
amateur radio
Date 9/5/2022 YouTube decided I needed to watch a video about the COMPACTenna line of antennas. The inventor, Jack Nilsson N8NDL, states that the
Rewards
Sep 3, 2022
musings & ultrarunning
Last year, at about 10am on Sunday, August 15th, I was running Hamster Endurance Runs, and I was about 27 hours in. I was deeply behind on calories,
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