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An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)

Monday, August 25, 2025

Half a million page views!

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 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...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Road Trip Revisited

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 "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." - Frederick Douglass
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

A hip lady

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 "Power concedes nothing without demand.  It never did and it never will.  Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and yo...
Monday, July 21, 2025

July 2025 Update - recent Coso images.

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

Smooth jazz

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 "Tradition is what you call the solution to a problem, long after you've forgotten what the problem was.  Take away the tradition,...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Vintage Test Equipment

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  "A clever person solves a problem.  A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Me and the SSMG

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 "The world will ask you who you are.  And if you don't know, the world will tell you" - Carl Jung
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Preparing for the worst; hoping for the best

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 "Forces beyond your control can take away everything except you possess except one thing - your freedom to choose how you will respond...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Fire in the hole!

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 "A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - Gilbert K. Chest...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Great Grandpa and RMS Titanic

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 "Life is a long lesson in humility" - James M. Barrie
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I served on a nuclear sub during the cold war, and worked in a nuclear test facility doing 'Star Wars' research. I have also worked in geothermal, coal, and natural gas turbine power plants. It's all been interesting, which is what makes it fun.
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