Finished reading: Treason’s Harbour by Patrick O’Brian 📚

Finished reading: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser 📚

Watched: Wind River 🍿

Finished reading: … Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen by Viktor E. Frankl 📚Man’s Search For Meaning. Really good book I had somehow never come across before.

Finished reading: Looking for Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker 📚 Easily my least favorite of the series so far.

Finished reading: In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton 📚

Reading Notes From Truman by David McCullough Great quote from Roosevelt mentioned in the book: “To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.” About sums up my feelings about the baby boomers and younger generations. Upon leaning that Roosevelt had died as …

Finished reading: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

Finished reading: Truman by David McCullough 📚 I’ve got notes for a full post, but what an interesting and delightful read.

Finished reading: Peace of Mind by Seneca 📚Second time reading through this and still super dense to me. Need to watch some Sadler lectures on it.

Finished reading: Killing Floor by Lee Child 📚 Meh, it was OK. I’ve heard good things about the series so may try one more book.

Finished reading: Walking the Old Road by Staci Lola Drouillard 📚

Watched: Edge of Tomorrow 🍿I’ve been wanting to see this for years! Fun movie I’m glad I finally got to watch.

Finished reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content) by Michael Chabon 📚What a fantastic book. I’ve never read a bad Chabon story yet.

WeeWx 5.2 Upgrade Woes

Well my long nightmare is over. Typing this up for others as they may encounter the same thing. My setup: Raspberry Pi 4 Debian 13 trixie t3.micro EC2 in AWS EcoWitt Pippboy EcoWitt GW1000 WeeWx 5.2 Belchertown 1.4 GW1000 0.6.3 Python 3.13.5 The main issue was that WeeWX runs as the weewx system …

Finished reading: The Miracle Morning (Updated and Expanded Edition) by Hal Elrod 📚 This book was awful. I’d rather face a lifetime of unproductive mornings than to have to read this tripe again.

Watched: Inside Man 🍿Fun little movie, good cast.

Watched: Spy Game 🍿weird movie but happy to watch a Redford flick.

Finished reading: New York to Nome by Bonanza Publishing 📚what a fun read! Starting a major research project on this book now that I hope to have a finished website for.

Watched: Idiocracy 🍿

Finished reading: The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey 📚 What an odd read. It’s like someone tried to make a novel out of jokes. It was definitely funny at times though!

Charles H Mertensotto Camping Meals

Update I wrote this on Januray 17th, 2020. Since that time, that table has moved homes with me to northern MN, and now hosts dinners for my wife and I and our two small children. I hope Mr. Mertensotto is happy knowing its seeing a lot of use still and gets used to plan plenty of hiking and outdoors …

Watched: The Martian 🍿 First movie I’ve watched in ages. Looking forward to tracking what I do watch!

Finished reading: Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour 📚 Definitely had interesting bits but was largely a rambling stream of consciousness walk through of books he read and where.

Waxed Canvas Plash Palatka

I cant remember where I first learned about the Plash Palatka (Russian for raincoat tent), I think I came across it when I was searching for cheap surplus poncho tents at some point in the past. I ordered one off of ebay cheap and then promptly let it sit for about a year before I finally got around …