I have turned perhaps too many of my blogging topics inward since I hit my retirement magic number here in the USA a few months ago. That’s because there are very important decision as I mildly struggle with re-defining my continuing life’s work and how it could change and be different. Retirement is not a stop sign at the top of the career hill, but a choice to keep going on a new and perhaps...
Continue reading...R.I.B. Reduction in Blog
I have come to a conclusion about the many blogs I have created. I created too many of them expecting feedback. By that I mean writing them in the form of a blog. Blogs are intended so that there is a very easy way for readers to add comments or ask questions of the author. My readers (all two of them 🙂 ) evidently don’t like to talk back. The only replies my blog posts...
Continue reading...Digital Radio-active
Over the past weekend I dug out some of my old amateur radio gear and blew off the dust and wiped the grime. It was just setting on the shelf in the garage/workshop getting dirty. Some of it is my old digital packet radio equipment that I haven’t operated for years. The packet radios are mostly 2 meters (144 MHz) but I have one data transceiver that is on 440 MHz. I am not going...
Continue reading...Metalsmithing
I am beginning a new and what may become strong passion for an artistic form of metalworking sometimes referred to as “metalsmithing”. This is far from the machine shop form of metal work I normally do. I have long known artistic metalsmithing existed but denied myself any interest, as it was a fancy-smancy jeweler’s trade. I have found out it is far more interesting and creative than boring holes in a block of aluminum. Well…...
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