I mostly post about #DinkeyCreek, the #Sierra, #Monterey, #beavers, #forests, and #meadows. Quite fond of #motorcycles, #scuba diving, #nudibranchs, #hiking, 4x4ing/rock crawling, seeing new places, #AmateurRadio, retro technology, #trains, and cats.
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Although recently they replaced the decking on the rear porch with plastic planks. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas * may not apply in extreme fire weather with ultra low humidity, high winds, and a fire storm heading your way. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas as long as the garden is lush and moist, it can serve as a fire break in many conditions. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I liked Belize when I was there passing through about 20 years ago. The vibes were off in a few spots but at least at the time it was less violent than other places I went on that trip. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas you'll end up writing travel guides for retired helicopter pilots of the Baja peninsula. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I know some people who go down to Baja every winter and live out of their RVs on the beach where they fish and eat tacos until the spring. It sounds pretty ideal. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I feel exactly the same way. The solstice is perhaps the saddest day of the year because it means the darkness is returning. The rest of the summer is filled with dread for the dark days ahead. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas The sun is marching hella north. We've got a few more weeks before it starts retreating south. If only it could be those few weeks before solstice forever. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Happy Mount St Helens Eruption Day to those who celebrate. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas somewhere deep underground in a cavern next to where they store the government cheese, there are rows of thousands of sewing machines sitting in the strategic sewing machine reserve waiting for the day they are needed. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas it's never too early or too late to have a midlife crisis 😅 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas it has a table!? npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas everyone's got a guy with a heavy duty sewing machine and I suspect I know it's the same guy that everyone knows 🤣 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas haven't you worked with heavy fabrics on a sewing machine? npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Hmm how hard is it to sew waterpoof fabrics such as canvas or clear PVC? How challenging would it be to make the canvas part of this topper at home? npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas This is the weirdest timeline where the USA is greatly accelerating global transitions away from fossil fuels. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas As seen in #Corvallis #Oregon. I wasn't thinking of buying a house here but now I am 🤔 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas This has been a productive storm for #ForkedMeadow #California npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Wow the snow is really coming down now! npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas And it's snowing again at Forked Meadow! Already 1/3" of precipitation has fallen with this storm. It's 33f so the snow is melting pretty much as it hits the ground. Hence why this photo of mostly a forest. The white stuff is snow. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I hope so! It would be a real shame if Cascadia loses cohesion. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I wonder how the Cascadia Cup will be handled if the Whitecaps leave. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Sweden's approach (not needing an agent) sounds superior. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Winter is not over at Forked Meadow. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Nice sunrise this morning in Monterey npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas A few photos from the mountains npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Still haven't heard from my buddy who got rerouted through Dubai 😬 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I hope my buddy is on a plane in the air right now because he's not responding to texts 😬 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas A friend is flying from Manila to Chicago. He was supposed to go via Seoul. Somehow the airline rerouted him via Dubai 🤯 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas It looks like it'll be another hot one in Monterey npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I know people micro dosing glp-1s of various manufacturers. They at least seem to think it's helping. I'm guessing it's a placebo effect but if so it's a powerful one for some people. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Dat sunrise npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas More sunrise. My phone camera doesn't do it justice. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas The sunrise continues npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas It's fixing to be a great #sunrise in #Monterey #California npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas the closest place with a cell tower is on the other side of a large mountain range to the vehicle. I doubt BMW's cell provider reaches out there 😬 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas does that go via cell network or satellite? If it's satellite, they would have been able to get a connection 😅 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas oh that's interesting that there's no spare tire and they're run flats. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas these days AAA says they'll tow if it's within 100 feet of pavement but I think they only will pay if they arrange for the tow. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas it appeared that the airbags were damaged and the rear driver A arm may have been broken. The car actually powered up when I touched one of the door handles but the pump wasn't able to charge the suspension system. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas the BMW was pointed away from civilization. I don't think they tried to turn around. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas huh I never heard of that camp before! npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I can confirm that its blinker was NOT on 🤣 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas maybe you can find wherever these incidents get logged and follow its progress tonight and into the next few days 😅 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I called Inyo County dispatch but they only had one person working tonight and they had an involved 911 call so they asked me to call CHP up in Bridgeport to report the vehicles. I dutifully did so and hopefully the CHP dispatch relays that information to DVNP tomorrow. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas and occasionally other lost things npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas they couldn't have made it in since the snow so I think it's been there at least two days. Maybe more. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I didn't find the owners and regional dispatch isn't going to tell me anything. So hopefully someone found them and hauled them out a day or two ago. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I would suggest against it on Lippencott Road. We found an utterly destroyed BMW SUV abandoned about a mile from the intersection with Saline Valley Road. I'll post photos of that later. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas lol no I knew about that days in advance. Anyway we didn't even drop down to Furnace Creek or Stovepipe Wells. Or even Panamint Springs. We went on the ultra back roads today 😅 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I think we're going to go to Manzanar tomorrow if it's open. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas It was raining pretty good today at Badwater Basin in #DeathValley National Park. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas That's the dream npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I used to review student work digitally. I would type up notes, do tracked changes edits, and etc. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas We saw an absolutely massive flotilla of sea otters today off of Point Pinos in Pacific Grove. I've never seen one this large this far out. I'm not sure I've seen this large of a flotilla outside of Elkhorn Slough at least down here in California. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Holy shit a committee member for a dissertation fed the dissertation draft into ChatGPT and asked it to decide if it was good enough. Without permission from the student. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas We recently got a 40" Samsung TV (2017 production year) from my parents for similar reasons. It's SOOOOOO big compared to our old 28" TV (2007 production year). And we just plugged the HDMI cable from the Roku into the new TV and it worked perfectly. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Woah dude I think the USA is going to capture the leader of the Federal Reserve and put troops into each of the twelve regional reserve banks. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas I've been surprised by some of my colleagues who seem to not know about libraries and how subscriptions work. But maybe that's why they've got pretty low h indexes 😅 npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas There's a lot of pizza being ordered tonight. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas yeah that was in northern Greenland in early February. Extremely cold with high winds. No issues with the multi layer glove approach. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas that's what worked well for me in extremely cold conditions. The challenge is finding a waterproof/windproof over mitten that's large enough because I've got absolutely huge hands. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas that's a sexy wedgetail. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas there are some great photos in that set!! npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas it's hard to beat the Philippine Mars for air photos this year. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas It's a pretty cold and gray day this morning in #Monterey #California. We've got a thick marine layer which is a bit rare for this time of year. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Quick intro post for the new server. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas For those wondering, I'm going through my followers list to weed out bots and I'm finding many delightful accounts I didn't notice following me before that I'm now following. So if I just added you, that's what's going on. npub1t4eyadyxpv7ucrz2jszf5l0qn0vmp49060sfsy6rfygnqcdgvs3q5arh98 Douglas Following on what I was posting on my old account a few minutes ago, I've got a few more positions I should apply to this week.
