Usually, I prefer to write stuff to help others by passing along some knowledge. This post is more of an acknowledgment or rant with some background and hopes sprinkled in. Sorry about that. As a long-time Houstonian who has lived and traveled abroad for years at a time without owning a car, it’s a shock…
After 55 years of accident-free riding all sorts of motorcycles hundreds of thousands of miles during my lifetime, I crashed. A person driving their car in the adjacent lane beside me suddenly turned into my lane on a freeway and took me and my big Harley-Davidson motorcycle down at 50-60 mph. It’s one of those…
Our Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas is complete for 2021. Kelly and I visited every single location and many more places we stumbled into along the way. Sometimes special friends accompanied us and shared the experience making it even richer (you know who you are!). Other times, we dealt with torrential downpours and oppressive humid…
My prescription for this fever is 2-3 weeks of solitude, while tent camping stream-side and fly fishing high Rocky Mountain streams by day, then sipping whiskey out of a an old tin cup at dusk under a light show of stars you didn’t know existed in the city. I promise you it’ll fix you. I…
In a typical chlorinated in-ground residential swimming pool, what is the right level in ppm to prevent algae and keep my water sanitized and healthy for swimmers? Well, the answer depends on your Stabilizer or CYA level mainly. Free Chlorine should be 7.5% of CYA, but your CYA should be 30-50ppm for pools with limited…
is my 1000 grit stone enough to sharpen my chipped knife? Well, technically it will get the job done eventually, but a better choice would be to begin using a coarser grit in the 250-500 range first.
CAN YOU LEARN TO FREEHAND SHARPEN KNIVES? Many people with unsteady hands, including those with Parkinson’s, have learned to hand sharpen knives effectively. Based on comments they leave on social media channels, they can learn to freehand sharpen knives. The reality is nobody knows if you can ever effectively freehand sharpen knives using unsteady hands….
While pondering ways COVID-19 would transform business, I re-lived my business career to reflect how things might change.
To the curious, HAM Radio is alive and trying to change with the times during this age of cellular phones and wifi. Why bother getting a license? How hard is it to get a license? Is Amateur Radio even a thing anymore? This article attempts to enlighten and bring you up to date on the basics as of 2
A friend sent me this amazing video of a young man showing off his amazing archery skills. Though I know one cannot always believe what one sees on video these days, I do know for a fact that people can do this kind of stuff with a bow and some arrows. I’ve seen it with…
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