I live in Hillsborough County, Florida. Within the last few months, our Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) and at least one other local agency have been using what they call cruise mode with their emergency lights. This is creating a lot of conf…
Continue Reading →Lately, especially in the heart of summer, I’ve been thinking about air conditioning and the inventions I’m most grateful for that have matured over my lifetime. I don’t think I could have lived in Florida back in the day without air conditioning. You re…
Continue Reading →I was just watching our local news on fox13tampabay.com, and they had a story on a ConsumerAffairs report about which cities have the worst traffic. The city I have to travel to for work (Tampa) was ranked 13th worst in the nation and number 3 in the sta…
Continue Reading →Back in March, I had my six-month checkup with my cardiologist. I told him I was feeling tired and fatigued all the time, more than usual. I thought it might be the medication. My last echocardiogram in August 2024 had shown some improvement, and my PVCs…
Continue Reading →I was just watching an old episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I’ve always been into Star Trek, every series except Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’m not sure why, but I never fully got into that one. The others: The Original Series, Deep Space Nine…
Continue Reading →I’ve always wanted a telescope. Something I could use to take photos and videos of the night sky with my phone or camera. I recently came across a YouTube video about the Zwo Seestar S50, but since this is my first telescope, I decided to start with the m…
Continue Reading →This post serves two purposes. First, it marks the inaugural entry 🥳 on my new blogging system. I'm using Typora ✍️ to write and save my posts locally in a folder. From there, I git push them to my GitHub repo 🔁, which then deploys to Cloudflare Pages 🌐. F…
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