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  • Getting out of the Photos library too big conundrum

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    Like everyone it seems, I’ve accumulated too many photos. When I google how to solve the problem I read that I just need to get more iCloud storage. The problem is I now have I heck of a lot of iCloud storage, the max (2TB), in fact, and I’m running out of space for all…

  • Moved from Macbook to Mini

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    Yesterday I traded my MacBook pro in to buy a mac mini. I did this for a mix of logical and irrational reasons, in no particular order: Having anything with a battery plugged in all the time bothers me on a very subconcious level. I know that modern charging systems will protect the battery, but…

  • Camping at Cape Lookout – South Core Banks

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    (I actually took this trip back in July of 2017, and originally posted some of the below on the expedition portal forums.) Secluded. Windy. Sandy. Oceany. Cape Lookout has everything you love and hate about the beach, to the nines. Except crowds & lifeguards. There are three major islands – the North Core, South Core,…

  • Getting away is a skill

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    For some folks, namely me, getting away is not a natural ability. It takes effort. I see now that the trip we took recently was way, way overdue. I was basically paralyzed to even plan the trip beyond a rough route and the first few stops. Thankfully my wife took over and organized stuff before…

  • Sailor Boy Pilot Bread

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    As I mentioned in another post, I got a little obsessed with the idea of hard tack, and that led me to Sailor Boy Pilot Bread. This is a large dense cracker product beloved by the people of Alaska, and this is my review of it. Unobtainium These crackers are impossible to buy in Kentucky,…

  • Gazelle T8 tent vs. Badlands thunderstorm

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    We bought the T8 tent to take on a 2-week road trip out west. We’ve owned a T4 & a Clam which have worked well for us, and wanted something with the same features only bigger. Namely very fast setup, windows off the ground, and enough pockets. While the tent is nominally the same in…

  • The allure of hard tack – making a durable, edible travel biscuit

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    Between reading Aubrey/Maturin novels and watching Townsends videos on Youtube, I’ve developed a bit meme-lust for hard tack. Hard tack is flour and water and salt formed into cracker or cookie shapes and baked and dried until it is basically rock-hard, and is a very durable food source used as far back as humanity has…

  • This Youtube stuff is hard

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    I’ve been trying to dabble in making Youtube videos for a few years now. Making videos is something I’m having to learn and so far I’ve learned it’s harder and more time consuming than I’d thought it would be. But that’s ok. I’d watched a video on how to make a Youtube channel, and the…

  • Nice cheap notebooks

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    So a long while back I used to journal in the pocket size Moleskine notebooks – the ubiquitous black hardcover ones. They worked pretty well but I slowly moved up the sizes until I was using the Leuchtturm1917 master dots size. A great size with lots of space, but hard to carry anywhere, so I…

  • Mastodon making it fun again

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    So like a lot of folks, I’ve decided to move away from Twitter and over to Mastodon. While it feels a little empty from a big-media perspective, it also feels way more fun. Maybe it’s the lack of the audience-building vibe that seems to permeate everything on twitter. Mastodon has a fresher less follower-count focused…