Progressive Odyssey

As I noted in my last post , I was fairly sure my pre-amp was not working correctly and I was going to try to recommended layouts from the d...

I had a business trip last week to Seattle and due to my route cutting through the mountains in winter, I asked for an all-wheel drive renta...

I was getting ready to update the hardware on my air-conditioner measurement system when I realized that I had never written about the init...

A nerdy friend of mine plays electronic keyboard at his church for Sunday morning services. He's expressed a desire to have some kind...

On the to-do list since we moved: get my amateur radio station set back up. We have a larger yard and a two-story house and I've been sc...

Our phone system at work is set up to send us a text transcription of each voicemail we receive, called a "Voice Mail Preview". I ...

My day job is at Pacific Northwest National Lab working in the Electricity Infrastructure group . Most of the time, best case, the conclusi...

A few weeks ago we took an early morning trip to see a hot air balloon launch in a nearby town. I hadn't been to one since I was a kid a...

Photos from a weekend trip we took a few months out to the west side of the state.  We live in the dry, desert half (as you can see from my ...

The battery on one of our cars is dying.  It has been since this past winter when my wife found herself unable to start the car, slightly up...

Memorial Day weekend was our first camping trip since moving to Washington.  It was a west-side, wet-side trip, though the rain was mild and...

Hanging out on our fence, not too concerned about me getting VERY close for these pictures.

The curbing is installed, the rock is in, and the plants have been planted.   Comparing to what we had last time, here's what things lo...