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

Preparing for the worst; hoping for the best

 "Forces beyond your control can take away everything except you possess except one thing - your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation." - Viktor Frankl

Fire in the hole!

 "A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great Grandpa and RMS Titanic

 "Life is a long lesson in humility" - James M. Barrie

Been Away, apologies!

 "Conquer yourself, rather than the world." - Rene Descartes

Outage season - a bit busy right now

"When someone says 'It's not about the money', it's about the money." - H.L. Mencken

That "sinking" feeling

 "Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind" - Matthew Henry

1960 F100 Restoration Update

 "Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal." - Viktor Frankl

A life not well lived

 "Plodding wins the race." - Aesop

New post in the works!

 Stay tuned - we are going to be discussing recent news on controlled nuclear fusion!

Pushing Snow Weekend

 "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Laughter of Wolves

 "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life:  'The Lord of the Rings', and 'Atlas Shrugged'.  One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.  The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

February - Calm before the storm

"The purpose of life is not to be happy.  It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compressor Update and Alternator tragicomedy

 "Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age" - Seneca the Younger

tHe cHinESe hAckED OUr tELeCoMs!!!! OMG!!!

"Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits-yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow." - Gaius Musonius Rufus

Apophis

 "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

400,000 Page Views

 Thanks to everyone who has stopped by over the decades!!!  Thanks also to those who post a comment!

My dog, the astronomer

 "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old." - Jonathan Swift

What's up - January 2025

 "Everyday life presents itself as a reality interpreted by men and subjectively meaningful to them as a coherent world." - Peter L. Berger