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Spinning in place, life stalled
Needing to do, decide. To move from this valley.
Work some but few hours this year. Less going forward.
Perhaps somewhere with land, enough to feed myself/visitors.
New Mexico being considered. Land inexpensive.
Canada seems not to be working out. Staying here draining funds. -
One from a prior Era passes
Last of her generation, having outlived all her friends, and all her younger siblings, my mother has passed. The depression, WWII, Union wars... Living though history since 1921. Biplanes to space age, bullets to atomic everything, party phones to smart phones... In 1932 California Law was a single book about 1.5 inches thick (I have one), '73 it ( Read more... ) -
Kickstarter perks
Something that dates back to still having reliable income, a kickstarter project for a short-film through the Siatle Globalist. Now released as an online vid: http://www.costofgender.com/
My first credit. Very cool.
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Lindsay Publications - Retiring
For the more geeky (well vintage geeky) Lindsey Publications does limited publishing of hobby technical books and lots of reprints of vintage technical books. Steam, babbitt bearings, firing a cupola, crystal radio, winding coils...lots ( Read more... ) -
Red Bull Stratos
Athelind let me know they were off the ground again for the record attempt ( Read more... ) -
A decent read
Furry critters in space with a decent plot, what is not to like. :-)
Theta
A story by Myshel on SoFurry
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The Farm
One of the many mental exercise “what if” concepts that slowly fills a composition book over time, this one being a self-sufficient farm to semi-retire to. Not wanting to limit my thinking the initial assumptions include unlimited funds, Edmonton like weather, and enough stuff to do whatever I want. This establishing the outer dashed line of mental ( Read more... ) -
Saturday events
The autumnal equinox ( Read more... ) -
Curiosity has landed
Watching NASA TV from the report of the end of cruise phase through touchdown and first images. It will be a while before Mars spins around and they can begin their first tasks driving the newest addition to Mars. :-)
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SpaceX / Dragon
Watching NASA-TV this evening for the SpaceX/Dragon launch. A launch that has been kicked forward again and again. They delays haven’t been total surprises as getting the NASA way and non-government commercial engineers on the same page must have been a historic effort in itself ( Read more... )