Kelly Adams

Motivation for posting more- Blaugust 2024

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:August 1, 2024
Post category:Site news
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Blogging is something I have done since sometime before 2000, but officially using WordPress with the kgadams.net URL since March of 2003.

One thing I’ve never been, however, is a frequent blogger. I’m going to try to change that, especially now that I’ve split off a separate motorcycle related “topic” blog (https://geekonaharley.org) and plan to add another with my gaming posts sometime this year. To that end I’ve decided to take a bit of a leap and join up with Blaugust, an annual blogging community ‘festival’ to encourage… well, the blogging community 🙂

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Jasper 2024: Adapting to the burning world

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:July 27, 2024
Post category:Home
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I live in a mountainous region of south-central British Columbia, the central Kootenay. Jasper Park and township are over 700 kilometres from me. Despite the distance, I am able to imagine the shock and horror of fire destroying … well, everything. I feel, though, that this kind of disaster is just going to keep getting more frequent.

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Kelly’s World: Non-Motorcycle Thoughts

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:July 8, 2024
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You may notice some changes to this blog (Kelly’s World). Specifically, you might notice that my posts about motorcycles are missing.

Fear not! My motorcycle content has been relocated to a separate blog: Geek on a Harley. Kelly’s World will remain the place to check for my non-motorcycle and more personal thoughts and interests. Please take a look at the new blog and follow/subscribe to it if it appeals to your interests!

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Pippin: A Loving Tribute to Our Beloved and Quirky Feline Friend

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:June 28, 2024
Post category:Critters
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Our sweet cat Pippin passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, June 20, while Irene and I were away. She died in her sleep of uncertain causes, and I miss her in ways that are difficult to describe.

I’m writing this in the hope that a few notes about Pippin will help me rationalize my feelings.

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Retirement: Looking back at the work

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:June 1, 2024
Post category:Life
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My career came to an end on Friday, May 31, 2024. That’s when my retirement became ‘official’.

I am feeling pretty good about no longer being a contributing member of society here in the first week of June. It feels very good to have no thoughts in my head about what needs to be done for work next week.

But I am also feeling a bit thoughtful about the past 40 years or so when I spent 40 to 80 hours a week (130 hours a couple of times) working. I’m turning that reflection into this summary post on my blog.

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He’s still a puppy to me…

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:February 10, 2024
Post category:Critters
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Irene and I adopted Finn at the end of 2022. He was about 11 weeks old when we got him, born at the end of August (August 29). At the time he was about 6 or 7 kilos. His adoption was not really planned, but it worked out.

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Cancer- a very scary word

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:January 13, 2024
Post category:Life
Post comments:11 Comments

2023 was a difficult year for us. It was a year that made me suddenly feel very old and fragile. I’m still coming to terms with a lot of what happened.

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An unexpected puppy- Finn

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:December 20, 2022
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Say hello to our newest family member: Finn, a dog, or more accurately a puppy. This picture is from when we first got him: he was about 11 weeks old at the time.

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Projects 2022- New stairs and other things

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:September 5, 2022
Post category:Home
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Irene and I had several ‘priorities’ regarding maintaining our new home from the day we bought it. Some were ‘mandatory’: for example, we had to replace the aging but still fully functional hot water tank in order to get house insurance. Others were ‘urgent’, and at the top of that list was the outdoors stairway to my office above the garage.

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Spring and summer views: 2022

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:July 2, 2022
Post category:Home Life
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I had planned on posting something new about our stairway construction by now, an upgrade that was already delayed from 2021. Unfortunately that still isn’t done despite being ‘in progress’ since the beginning of May.

Instead, I’ve decided to post some pictures from around the house and a few words about how the year has gone. Most of the pictures have already made an appearance on Facebook- apologies for folks who follow me there as well. But the words are mostly ‘new’…

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