I love my two person tent.. It’s not just the fond memory of a waking up with a pack of coyotes sniffing around as my son and I were backpacking. It’s not just the fantastic and fast 3-pole deployment. It’s not just the logic and thought put into every facet from the footprint to the… Continue reading Jim Bridger Days ’25 – Refreshing your Equipment
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Jim Bridger Days ’25 – Zeroing In
Be prepared. Yeah, it’s a Lion King number, but it also happens to be a motto I take seriously. Could you feed yourself, or your family, if there wasn’t ground beef in a freezer down the road, ready to be traded for your stacks of paper or a swipe of your plastic? Could you find,… Continue reading Jim Bridger Days ’25 – Zeroing In
Jim Bridger Days ’25
Today is March 17th, Birthday of American mountain man, trapper, scout, and guide Jim Felix Bridger. Born in 1804 and orphaned at 13, Jim spent his life exploring the untamed wilderness of the American West. Since 2018 and in recognition of the 77 years Jim spent trapping, hunting, and forging his way across the North… Continue reading Jim Bridger Days ’25
245.9
I used to say that anyone that hits 200lbs and doesn’t see that as a warning sign, an indication they need to change something in their life, just doesn’t care about their weight. Well, today I stepped on the scale and smiling back at me in bright OLED glory was the figure 245.9lbs… A far… Continue reading 245.9
Two More Fruit Trees
Planted two more fruit trees today, 4/28/2024. Both are multi-varietal and self-pollinating. So if they survive they should bear fruit. Additionally, the Mcintosh and Red Delicious varieties can pollinate our existing Wolf River apple tree. One of the grafted branches is actually already in bloom.. The Van and Lambert cherries may be able to pollinate… Continue reading Two More Fruit Trees
Fermentations 2023
Now that we are back home and we *gasp* have an actual pantry/kitchen closet for the first time, I’ve gone ahead and harvested some veggies to kick off fermentation season 2023! This year I’m doing a large batch of store bought orange bell pepper and habenero, with a smaller (due to yield) batch of home… Continue reading Fermentations 2023
Cyborg Augmentations v0.7 – Time Keeping
Clocks Suck At least, human readable clocks do. There’s so many edge cases to account for and I haven’t even gotten into automatically adjusting my time zone for daylight savings… Regardless, here’s the code I rapidly tossed together in an impromptu code sprint last night. It includes the following features so far: My next goals… Continue reading Cyborg Augmentations v0.7 – Time Keeping
Handy Dandy Robot Pals – Part 1: Planning
The goal for 2024 will be to create a household robot. One with actual utility that helps solve a household problem for me. Step 1? What do I even have for problems! In order to be useful and carry actual utilitarian merit (and thus justify paying to recharge it’s battery) I first need to identify… Continue reading Handy Dandy Robot Pals – Part 1: Planning
Cyborg Augmentations v0.7 – Rebooting
Back to the drawing board (literally) and starting from scratch. I’d like to get a wearable that is actually functional and helpful in my day-to-day life by the end of the year (2023). Here’s some of the functions I’m hoping to include: More to follow..
