I’m getting back on the web after being away. Writing about audio, blogging, and other stuff.
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Just now I got a message my NAS was unreachable. Not really the kind of message one wants to see from the box that holds all the data! This is the third time in recent memory (3-5 months?) and each…
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Getting out of the Photos library too big conundrum
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…
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Moved from Macbook to Mini
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…
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Camping at Cape Lookout – South Core Banks
(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.…
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Getting away is a skill
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…
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Sailor Boy Pilot Bread
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…
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Gazelle T8 tent vs. Badlands thunderstorm
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,…
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The allure of hard tack – making a durable, edible travel biscuit
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…
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Nice cheap notebooks
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…
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