Smoke in the Valley
The smoke has settled across our valleys here in Castlegar. Exactly where the air pollution originates is a hard question to answer: there are wildfires in nearly every direction within…
The day to day aspects of life: what is happening around the house and in our family
Tummy troubles
My state of health has been a bit rough for the past twelve months or so. I had severe sciatic pain, then a mental breakdown, and following that some nearly…
Retirement: what I miss about work
Roger (Mr. Peril) over on Contains Moderate Peril wrote about the things he misses in retirement from his work experience. Much of what Roger had to say felt consistent with…
An unwanted silence
I learned yesterday that Belghast (Mark Temple) had died just a few days ago. The shock hit me hard despite the fact that I barely knew him. Cancer took him…
Missing time
A few months ago over the Christmas holiday season I had a mental breakdown. I documented it a bit in previous posts, but there has been a significant gap of…
Entropy
Entropy is a scientific term that represents the concept that systems generally degrade without effort from order to chaos over time. A broken plate breaks easily without any real thought,…
Power of Three: my trike gets a custom plate
In 2025 I had a custom Harley Road Glide trike built. I still haven't written about that in my other blog, Geek on a Harley- one day that too will…
Weird Kootenay winter
We are entering the spring season here in the Kootenays, a time when the weather is supposed to be somewhat unpredictable. But this year our whole winter has been kind…
Check engine light
My truck produced a lovely indicator a few weeks ago showing a picture of what could be interpreted as an engine. In this context, this indicator is know as the…
Results of lower back MRI
I had an MRI of my lower back a week ago, and the results have come in this week. The MRI confirms that the left channel (fossae) in the L4-L5…