Leukemia :(

 "If you're lonely when you are alone - you are in bad company" - Jean-Paul Sartre

Happy Birthday, dear blog!

 Today this blog turns 20 years old!  May it another 20 years :)

I will return to blogging within a few more months, and at that time I will share the happenings and cause for the interregnum.  Meanwhile, as Mr. Spock would say, "Peace and prosperity" to readers everywhere.

Still here, part two!

 "Man is nothing but what he makes of himself." - Jean Paul Sartre

Dear readers - and anyone else who happens to find their way here:  Apologies for the lack of consistent posting.  I'm dealing with a health issue right now that is taking a lot of time and focus, and having to research how best to deal with it, given the US healthcare system.  

Between not feeling well beforehand, getting dumped into a medical administrative rat-maze, and the nature of the medical treatment, it's best to set aside blogging and sharing ideas for the moment.  Tackling a car repair and sharing that in a blog post is out of the question right now.

With that out there, hopefully you can check out some older posts!  The most-read ones are on the sidebar to the right.  I *should* be back to routine posting toward the end of summer, assuming things go well with treatment.  One must always acknowledge the reality that things don't always go to plan :)

Mark  

Still here!

 Happy belated 2026!

 I am still around, just "focusing on my health" - as disgraced politicians always say when they slink off!!!!!

Celestron Ultima C8

"We learn not in the school, but in life" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

October 2025 Update

 "Floods will rob of us of one thing, fire of another.  These are conditions of our existence which we cannot change.  What we can do is adopt a noble spirit, such a spirit that befits a good person, so that we may bear up bravely under all that fortune sends us and bring our wills into tune with nature's." - Seneca

Half a million page views!

 Hi All, 

 Yes I'm still here and wondering where I will find inspiration for the next post.  It'll come at some point, and yes I'll do the nuclear fusion post at some point :) 

In the meantime I'd like to thank everyone who has ever stopped by to read anything and extra special thanks to those that comment - the insights and long-distance friendships have been very rewarding!

So while I wasn't looking, the stats now say that there have been well over 500,000 page views.  522,585 to be precise at this moment.  I'm humbled, and thanks again for having a look!

 

Road Trip Revisited

 "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." - Frederick Douglass

A hip lady

 "Power concedes nothing without demand.  It never did and it never will.  Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed on them, and these will continue until these are either resisted with words or blows, or with both.  The limits of tyrants are are prescribed by the endurance of those they oppress." - Frederick Douglass

July 2025 Update - recent Coso images.

 "Stay away from people that act like a victim of a problem they created themselves." - Unknown