I’ve been a ham radio enthusiast for a long time — long enough that the words ‘estate planning’ no longer make me change the subject. Not that I’m in any hurry to go, but a timeline has been crossed where we’ve started working on a Last Will, funeral planning, where we will be buried, things like that. Part of that thinking also includes amateur radio. It’s always been a significant part of my life and...

During my morning coffee with Claude today I asked if I was missing something, anything, by shunning all forms of social media, except blogging of course. A little back story, I adopted Twitter when it was first available (2006) and lived through those early years of the whale fails and short ‘blogging’ as Twitter evolved into something worthwhile. Then I was part of the great exodus when Musk ruined it (2022) and have never...

I’m not into astrology though I’ve often thought if you’re willing to believe your own destiny was fated on the position of constellations in the night skies when you were born, you would be better served believing in the influences of whatever Solar Cycle you were born under. Solar cycles are approximately 11-year periods during which the Sun’s magnetic activity fluctuates, affecting the number of sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections and these have...

I’ve been working to re-publish some of the old stories that previously appeared here and still have a long way to go. It’s part of this new organization kick I’ve been on lately. I want to be able to easily pull all the fiction and publish it in e-book format some day. That effort has included some light editing and in a few cases, consolidation of multi-part episodes into a single post. All this...

Lucius thought deeply for a moment about Clinton’s request to again tell the story of his meeting Hiram Percy Maxim in 1935. He wanted to make his old friend happy, but that encounter was only a small part of a much longer story that played out over more than a decade before actually meeting Maxim, and he knew Clint didn’t want the two-dollar version, he wanted to hear the whole thing. He knew that because...