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

Smooth jazz

 "Tradition is what you call the solution to a problem, long after you've forgotten what the problem was.  Take away the tradition, and the problem returns." - Donald Kingsbury

Vintage Test Equipment

  "A clever person solves a problem.  A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein

Me and the SSMG

 "The world will ask you who you are.  And if you don't know, the world will tell you" - Carl Jung