This year’s ARRL Field Day was noticeably tinged with difficulty, problems, and loneliness. The goal of Field Day is to set up our radios with makeshift antennas and operate on emergency power while making as many contacts as possible for 24 hours. Adaptation in the face of adverse conditions is the heart of these field …
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Solo Part
Touched my music gear, and it made pretty noises. I recorded the MIDI, but only after losing the magic while opening the recording app. That’ll teach me to play without everything being armed and ready. Writing prose is easy relative to making music; with prose, everything’s in your head, and you control it all as …
Stand
Looking at getting my shit back together. I feel like the long weekend needs to come to an end; time to get busy, active, moving forward. I’m not hurting for cash at the moment, but my income will be drying up within two weeks. It’s time to make the grab at real life again. I’ve …
Exit Stage Left
My first week in my new apartment; the dust is settling and I’m starting to settle in on a nest of my own. Moving out, so far, is proving to be the best gift I could have given myself to mark my 36th birthday last week. I am now, finally, my own man. My former …