Observations of a NeoDigital Luddite
It was like a scene out of Fargo, only without the denuded white winter landscape. Long desolate highway with single crossbuck telephone poles receding in to the infinite distance. Barbed wire farm fences along the other side of the ditch off the road. Gray. Just gray. No detail in the sky at all – as Read More …
I’ve looked at the weather most of the morning so far. No getting around this mess that stretches now from Texas to western Ontario. So, if you can’t ride around it, you ride through it. As I look at my route this morning from Regina to Winnipeg, it looks like I’ll be riding through another Read More …
Welcome to Saskatchewan! Eventually on every road trip like this, unless you’re riding the desert southwest in the summer, you will encounter a day of rain. When I awoke this morning in Medicine Hat, AB, it was dark and gloomy, temperature about 6 degrees C (roughly 43 F) and the wind was, to put it Read More …
Another lovely day on the road, got a little wet, looks like I’ll get more wet tomorrow. Figured out all of my little techno-issues. All is good. Out of Coeur d’Alene, ID at about 8:00am Pacific time, arrived Medicine Hat, AB about 7:30pm Mountain time. For this evening, I’ll let the pictures tell the story. Read More …
The first couple of days of a long ride are always a “spooling up” exercise. Today was no exception. Many of the things you think you have all worked out in the garage or on short rides around town end up not working as predicted after several hours on the road. Today I was working Read More …
Today’s the day. The start of Road Trip 2016. First day will be eastbound toward northern Idaho. I don’t plan to head in to Canada today, but we’ll see what the end of the day looks like. Track the Trip <– This link takes you to my Amateur Radio call sign on aprs.fi. I’m traveling Read More …
I finished reading Emma Newman’s novel Planetfall a couple of evenings ago and I’m been trying to figure the best way to write about it since. In general terms, the easy stuff is … it’s science fiction; it takes place on another planet with the cast of the story being a group of colonists that Read More …
I was looking through my accrued vacation time today on my employer’s payroll site. I have a trip coming up and I was just curious to see what kind of vacation bank I have. After all, I’ve been with this employer less than 3 years and I took a week off last year, so I Read More …
It’s been just about exactly a month since I traded in my old police bike for a shiny new Kawasaki Concours. In that month, the new ride has accumulated roughly 850 miles. No, I haven’t been able to get out as much as I like. The workload at the office at the moment is a Read More …
One down, a couple to go. For now. As I’ve written before, I have chosen in this new career upon which I have embarked, to work to certify myself and get educated in the areas and subjects specific to my job. When I was a Broadcast Engineer, this meant becoming certified by the Society of Read More …