January through March 2026

New year new everything! Well that’s the thought, right? Progress has been a little slower than I’d like on the new house, but I feel very comfortable here and have really been liking the small town I now call home. People are polite, charming, quirky, and at least outwardly happy in the sense that I…

Right now I’m focused on: Reading:

Well the grind came to a sort of conclusion, in that my portion of the project was fully fired up and put into production mode. Dozens of moving parts, cumbersome manual mapping, a mountain of documentation – and it’s all just doing its thing now. It’ll come back up many times, and hopefully it will…

Got my car back on the road after a short (long) stint as the world’s largest saab shaped paperweight. I had to cut a chunk out of the body under the rear seat to expose the fuel pump access, then pull and rebuild the fuel pump assembly. Been running just fine since then thankfully. I…

I took a trip up to Canada to go camping with Duncan during the fall color season in Algonquin Provincial Park. What a nice little reset, I do need to get myself out into the woods more often. It was a great opportunity to go offline and to discover that I had absolutely no bicycling…

I’m enjoying my new house, thought it’s definitely a good deal of work. In November, I had a bit of an issue with being slowly poisoned by my furnace, but thankfully that’s resolved and I’m breathing clean air again! I’m looking forward to a real winter out here in the Pennsylvania Wilds, and am continuing…