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)
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.
"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
Happy belated 2026!
I am still around, just "focusing on my health" - as disgraced politicians always say when they slink off!!!!!
"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
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!
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." - Frederick Douglass
"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
"Stay away from people that act like a victim of a problem they created themselves." - Unknown
"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
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein
"The world will ask you who you are. And if you don't know, the world will tell you" - Carl Jung
"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
"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
"When someone says 'It's not about the money', it's about the money." - H.L. Mencken
"Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind" - Matthew Henry
"Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal." - Viktor Frankl
