Stuff that doesn’t fit in other categories.
November 28 to December 2, 2020 I drove back to the city Saturday evening, so exhausted my muscles cramped the entire drive home. I had planned to stay at River Song another day, but I’d run out of propane at the cabin. And I wasn’t in the mood for peopling,…
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Monday, February 10, 2020 My paid gig landed me a day at the state capital. Woohoo! Other than a quick drive by on a Sunday shortly after I’d moved to the area, I’ve never been there. Today gave me an opportunity to get up close and personal. To save myself…
View More A Trip to the State Capital
Saturday, January 4, 2020 I’d mentioned in Wednesday’s post that I am tired of paying $800 a year in Worldmark maintenance fees, as well an $85 per use housekeeping fee for every stay beyond one per year. I’ve become increasingly unhappy with the annual dues increase, and especially so after…
View More Time to Walk Away
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 As you can see, my switchover to my new domain name, river-song.com, did not take very long. I contacted my hosting service earlier today during my lunch hour, and they had it switched for me in about 15 minutes, including reissuing my SSL certificate and forwarding…
View More A Look Ahead
January 20, 2020 Today was a weird day. January 20 always is for me. Sometimes I spend it alone, usually out in the wilderness or on a country road grinding out mile after mile on my bike. And sometimes, I spend it with a group of people, letting them distract…
View More A New Beginning (Again!)
Saturday, December 21, 2019 I hadn’t done anything with the Mountaineers since the North Fork Sauk River hike in June. I wanted nothing more to do with the group, even to the point of deleting their emails, unread, as soon as they hit my inbox. However, in December, I received…
View More The Mountaineers Part Deux
August 14, 2019 I haul a lot of gear to Burning Man: bike, cabin tent, cot, sleeping bag and pillows, throw rugs, chair and tables, clothes, costumes, food, water, and more. In the past, I’ve driven my Ford Sport Trac, which has a canopy. Everything in the truck bed was…
View More Building a DIY tonneau
I’m a triathlete. I like metrics and benchmarks. Metrics give me a common means of measurement, and benchmarks provide a way to track my progress. In triathlon training, I can use heart rate, pace, speed, distance, timing, power, etc. to track my progress. Pretty standard means of measurement. Hiking has…
View More Trail Ratings