Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, I say that I am a technologist. It is kind of an odd term but fits me pretty well. I have made a career out of being on the leading edge of technology since I…
If there is one thing you should know about me, it is that I am self-employed. Taking days off is a hardship because when I don’t work, I don’t get paid. The result is that sometimes I don’t take vacations for years. Yes, years. The last…
We had neighbors when we were growing up. Well, we kind of had neighbors. Living way out in the country the closest neighbor was 100 yards (100 meters) down the road. The next closest neighbor was a quarter of a mile up the hill. When your…
I grew up on a dirt road. Cooper Street was located five miles from the nearest small village. I have often wondered, why wasn’t it called Cooper Road? I thought streets were in villages and cities? To compensate some people called it Cooper Street Road. I…
This morning I resumed a summer ritual of mine. This ritual always seems like a good idea at 8:15 in the morning but somehow by 11:15 AM I am wondering, I did this why? I am talking about cycling and specifically cycling with one of the…
While setting up for my camping adventure last week, I pulled out my trusty dusty EMS camping sleep pad. It wasn’t ever the most comfortable pad in the world but certainly was a lot better than nothing. I’ve had this thing for fifteen years and it…
About a year ago I went to my chiropractor, Dr. Stephen Wechsler complaining of chronic ankle aches and pain. Many years of playing basketball and way too many ankle sprains have left my ankle in rough shape. Dr. Steve had me hop on one of his…
When I was a kid, probably five or six years old, my father was big into fishing. We would pile into the truck camper and head off to Pulaski to go fishing in the Salmon River Reservoir. There were six of us total so we were…
1979 found me starting at Cayuga Community College. I was in the Telecommunications Technology program and had every intention of become an engineer at a radio or TV station. That was before I found out that engineers did not make that much (less thn $20,000). I…
My daughter’s mother immigrated to the US from Russia when she was 21 years old. Karen was and is a very intelligent woman, bi-lingual with only a slight Russian accent. She has accomplished much in her life including beating cancer and become a nurse practitioner. I…