The long-delayed writeup of last March’s weeklong excursion to Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina. Added here more to complete our set of scouting reports than to provide anything of interest to readers.
Thu March 14: Travel

We left on the warmest early spring day Pittsburgh had seen thus far in 2019, although we still passed snow in the ( Read more... )

If brevity is the soul of wit, I’m surely both soulless and witless, because I find it impossible to write a travelogue of anything less than “War and Peace” proportions. Let’s see if I can tighten up the tale of our recent week in Boulder and Denver...

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Enough stuff has happened in the past two months that it’s time for another aggregated life update.

Health issues remain inconclusive. After surgery in December, I had another attack of abdominal pain around New Years, which prompted another visit to the GP and a followup CT scan. That detected nothing, so I’m back to eating a regular diet and ( Read more... )

As I step away from some of my older hobbies, it looks like kyūdō-the Japanese martial art of archery-might be a new activity that arises to take their place.

People who know me will realize that when I commit to an interest, I ( Read more... )