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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)

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Day Zero

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 "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart....
Friday, October 23, 2026

Decisions, decisions

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 "If you know the path broadly, you will see it in all things." - Miyamoto Musashi
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Appointment with the Vampire

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 "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Interlude and Chemotherapy #2

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 "Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." - Steve Maraboli
Thursday, October 08, 2026

Interlude and Induction Chemotherapy

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 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank   Amazing thoughts...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Leukemia :(

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 "If you're lonely when you are alone - you are in bad company" - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Monday, April 20, 2026

Happy Birthday, dear blog!

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 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...
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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Still here, part two!

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 "Man is nothing but what he makes of himself." - Jean Paul Sartre Dear readers - and anyone else who happens to find their way he...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Still here!

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 Happy belated 2026!  I am still around, just "focusing on my health" - as disgraced politicians always say when they slink off!!!...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Celestron Ultima C8

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