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Chat GPT And Change
OK. Where did I put my notes? I rarely write from them, but an idea came to mind. Maybe if an AI was organizing my life I wouldn’t have to scramble to find those notes. – Found them. A yellow … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, community, Dan Simmons, digital singularity, Firewatcher, frugal, frugality, minimalism, personal finance, preparedness, Ray Kurzweil
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I Split My Pants
Some days it is hard to do anything the normal way. I split my pants. That’s common enough; but I split these pants down the front, not in the most embarrassing way, but from waist to knee. I think that … Continue reading
Just Keep Pedaling – Twenty Years Later
What a weird and wild ride it was and has been, both on the bicycle and in my life. Twenty years ago I rode across America from an island north of Seattle (San Juan Island) to an island south of … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, author, bicycle, bicycle touring, bicycling, hiking, Just Keep Pedaling, minimalism, minimalist, personal finance, Retirement, self image, self publishing, Twelve Month series, walking, Walking Thinking Drinking Across Scotland, Whidbey Island, writing
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More Than Enough
“I’ve had enough!” Call them prayers, visualizations, manifestations, I’ve asked the Universe for “more than enough.” There’s ‘not enough’, which is poverty. There’s ‘enough’, which is balancing on a razor’s edge, where a slip is a dangerous thing. Then there … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Dream. Invest. Live., emergency preparedness, frugal, frugality, Living Wage, minimalism, minimalist, minimum wage, persistence, personal finance, photos
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Masks Facades And Probes
I’ve been probed. Yep. That was weird. It tickled. And, no, it wasn’t aliens. (Or were they?) Yet another surprise from 2020 that I hope never has to be repeated. Probes and masks are something unexpected. I’m also seeing a … Continue reading
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Tagged American Dream, Cascadia, coronavirus, Covid 19, Dream. Invest. Live., essential workers, frugal, frugality, minimalism, minimalist, personal finance, values
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Personal Pandemic Prep
As some regular readers know, sometimes I plan a post, and sometimes an idea needs to be worked out by writing about it. (Note to writers, the planned posts don’t get more traffic than the extemporaneous ones. Overthinking happens.) Recently … Continue reading
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Tagged emergency preparedness, frugality, minimalism, personal finance
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Switching To ATT
The first bill arrived. The suspense is only partly over. At the end of July I made many people happy by switching from Sprint and my flip phone to AT&T and a smartphone (Flipping To A Smartphone). Finally, they can … Continue reading
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Tagged Microvision, minimalism, MVIS, personal finance, real estate, smartphone
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Escape To Reality
Yesterday I returned from a couple of days in reality. Really, it was three days and two nights, but only from 9AM on Wednesday until 5PM on Friday. Nah. That was how long I was away from work and home. … Continue reading
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Tagged backpacking, frugal, frugality, Grand Lake, hiking, Maslow, minimalism, minimalist, nature, Olympic National Park, Twelve Months
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Littler To Do Lists
What day is it? How’d we get so close to Christmas so quickly? Looks like a lot of things are going to get done a little later than usual, but then, a faster pace of life has become the usual. … Continue reading
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Tagged ALAYCPYB, books, diet, Gig Economy, Lottery, minimalism, Powerball
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Weirdnesses Approaching
As if the world wasn’t weird enough, it’s getting weirder. Sometimes that’s a good thing. Luckily, humans evolved to be adaptable, and that adaptability is being tested. The following is a Friday night random list of shifts, changes, and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Airplane design, artifical intelligence, Atomic Age, auto autos, automation, autonomous, aviation, bitcoin, blockchain, Cascades, coal, commodities, decentralized, driveless cars, driverless vehicles, earthquakes, fossil fuels, frugal, frugality, gas, graphene, high frequency trading, housing, inflation, infrastructure, investing, invisibility, minimalism, oil, personal finance, power, renewable energy, renewables, Simple Living, solar, Tiny Houses, trends, tsunami, wind
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