Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I run a bunch of mailing lists. Most of them are very active, not too many members, and very chatty. They are also very low-maintenance. One of my mailing lists is an announcement list for our neighborhood association, and has 500+ members, many of them elderly. It gets about 3-4 posts a month, and it s Continue reading "Man, I hate RoadRunner/TimeWarner/Spectrum"
This is part 5 of 5 of our long North-ish Ontario trip: We spent a nice day with John and his wife Janice. We had a bit of a storm, and Janice went out in some of the worst of it to retrieve two Adirondack chairs (or Muskoka chairs) that had blown off a neighbour’s Continue reading "Ending up"
This is part 4 of 5 of our long North-ish Ontario trip: We got a couple of nice weather days in Algonquin Park. On the first good day, Vicki and I went for a paddle. Paddling across Pog Lake didn’t fell like anything other than a good paddle with my wife and best friend, but Continue reading "Coming home"
This is part 3 of 5 of our long North-ish Ontario trip: We bought Starlink specifically for this trip. In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past couple of years, Starlink is a small antenna that gives you internet connections based on a fleet of satellites launched by the Space Nazi himself. Continue reading "Starlink, star blink, first star I see tonight…"
This is part 2 of 5 of our long North-ish Ontario trip: Setting up in Sauble Falls, we discovered that there are a lot of mosquitos around. There hadn’t been any at the previous two nights, but we should have expected it. Good thing we’d brought both Deep Woods Off and Coleman 100% Deet. The Continue reading "To Sauble Falls, and beyond!"
This is part 1 of 5 of our long North-ish Ontario trip: We’re currently on Manitoulin Island., on day 5 of our Ontario loop. As I mentioned in passing in my last blog post, we spent the first night in Camparks in the Niagara Falls region, just to have a short first day in case Continue reading "The RV life giveth, and the RV life taketh away"
Last week, Vicki was out of town, so I used the time to install a rack on the back of the trailer to carry the Blackstone grill. Afterwards, I wondered if putting the heavy grill that far behind the wheels would lever up the front (hitch) end enough to cause swap problems, so I loaded Continue reading "Definitely time to start using a paper checklist"
Today, I had a big day (for me). My pain levels were moderate, so I got down to do several things I wanted to get done before our big trip. First thing I did was mow my grass. I mowed it yesterday, but because the grass was very high from our 10 days in BC, Continue reading "Big day"
I ve finally finished booking all the campsites (and the ferry) for our big Northern Ontario trip. It roughly follows https://maps.northernontario.travel/best/trip/10-day-ontario-provincial-park-rv-route/15589 but I ve stretched it out to 18 days by adding adding a bunch of double and triple nights and also breaking some of the longer travel days into two. With the price of diesel, this Continue…
We spent this past weekend saying goodbye to my mother. My brother has a ton of anger towards her, all justified. I won’t go into why. But it saddens me because he has so much anger towards her that he frequently directs it outwards. Fortunately, not towards me most of the time, because he sure Continue reading "Mum"