We are only three weeks from heading back to Utah. Kelli leaves August 29th and I leave August 31st. Here is a little video for you of what we are up to on this fine Saturday. Tomorrow we are both picking up shifts for other people so we are only out for a little bit today.
Joshua
Have you ever written an exam paper only to forget to save it and when you go print it off, you can't find it? Weeks ago I wrote an entire post about flying IOE and starting to fly on my own at Seaplanes only for it to not get saved and then lost forever. Writing the same thing twice is dreadful […]
Look who showed up... Kelli made it up here after us being apart just over two months. She flew in Tuesday June 4th at 9:45 after a little delay in Ketchican. I picked her up at the airport and she met Northern Light for the first time about 10:00. I took the next day off work so I could show her […]
My early 20s (and mid-20s) was filled with lots of moving. I moved from home to Arizona for college at 18, back home, then into a farm house where I worked, into a single-wide mobile home next to my parents, off to my sister's in Truth or Consequences, NM, then to Leadivlle, Colorado at 24, Avon, […]
Day three I awoke early, made breakfast and coffee, and took a look at the manual for the autopilot. There was a magnetometer calibration procedure I wanted to try. The magnetometer is the electronic compass the autopilot steers by. I looked through all the settings in the autopilot, fiddled with […]
I woke up to a nice morning still anchored where I dropped the hook by Whitney Island sometime near 6:30. Being new to everything still, I wasn’t sure how good of a spot I picked but it seemed to be good enough as I hadn’t drifted at all. The standard anchoring protocol is to put out seven times […]
My flight from Seattle to Petersburg on Alaska Airlines is referred to as the "Milk Run." It makes multiple stops along the way at small airports and several places you just stay on the airplane rather than getting off. We stopped in Ketchikan and Wrangell before stopping in Petersburg […]
Big changes. I'm sitting in a little cafe a six-minute walk from the harbor I'm living in. My laundry is tumbling next door in the local laundromat. My location is Juneau, Alaska. How did I end up here? So, I've been thinking about a change in jobs for a while and applied for a medevac job close […]
First off, I activated a summit on Moab Rim last year but I lost my phone on the hike and never made a post about it. That was my first activation with my KX2. Now on to current news. I turned 35 years old! That makes me think, my metabolism isn't going to keep up with a semi-sedentary lifestyle […]
I have been too sedentary this past winter and playing radio doesn't help me get motivated either so I decided to try something new, SOTA! For those of you who are unaware, SOTA stands for Summits On The Air. It is a part of the amateur radio hobby where you take your radio, hike up to a […]
Strange title, right? Here's what this short blurb is about: being focused in communication. Communication is hard, anyone who is married is likely to know this simple fact. It is difficult to communicate with a husband or wife, our minds work in significantly different ways. There are many books […]
How do you make sure you are headed where you want to go? As I sit here trying to remember how to collect my thoughts into something other people will understand, I am thinking about changes in life that go unnoticed for a long period of time. Life changes on us all, and at least for me, a lot of […]
From time to time I am asked to teach on a Sunday morning at Church. I plan to continue posting these audio files on this blog. I have thought about posting my notes as well but I'll hold off for now. If you would like to see what my notes look like for a service, let me know and I will consider […]
This is NOT about excuses. Anyone who chooses to blog has plenty of excuses why they don't write. Life is good at giving a person excuses. This is about choice. Why do I choose not to write when I have things I would like to write about? I am very introspective. Speaking is hard for me at […]
This place isn't just filled with silicon and electrons; it is also a warm home. Sure, there's a fire every morning and evening through the winter and there are big south facing windows that make the home feel warm, but that is not what I am talking about. I'm talking about the resident […]
Let's talk about some of the hardware. -Raspberry Pi The heart of the system is a Raspberry Pi. It is a SOC (system on a chip) computer running a version of Linux called Raspbian (Debian). These sell for $35 and are highly supported by both the manufacturer and a large, great group of developers […]
Just want to wish everyone who ventures here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May your 2020 be filled with purpose. Proverbs 19:20-21 "Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of […]
We woke up to 8 inches(ish) of snow on the ground the Tuesday morning before Thanksgiving. The wind blew hard and there was snow suck in the corners of the windows on the outside. It looked kind of dreamy, like an old painting of Christmas. I love getting snow. It messes up our road, make it extra […]
I have realized the past couple days that traveling with a woman changes things a little. Please understand that my wife, Kelli, is a resilient woman. I don't have to struggle to keep her comfortable; she is able to do that for herself. What I mean is, I used to hop on a motorcycle with little to […]
A few weeks ago I had the privelege of teaching on a Sunday morning the the Moab Community Church that Kelli and I are members of. The subject was fear, more specifically, unholy fear. This world is packed full of fear mongering and people telling you at every turn to be afraid of something. As a […]