For What its worth

  • Cypress Point Lookout

    Cypress Point Lookout

    Cypress Point Lookout on 17 Mile Drive

  • Lookouts at China Rock

    Lookouts at China Rock

    Lookouts at China Rock on 17 Mile drive.

  • Pacific Grove CA

    Pacific Grove CA

    Stopping for a snack at Patisserie Belcher

  • Visiting the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library

    Visiting the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library

    Today we are in Cedar Rapids visiting the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. A must see outlining the history of a people who survived under communism, Nazis, various dictators and empires. A fascinating heartfelt story.

  • 25 years ago …

    25 years ago …

    We spent our honeymoon in the Sheboygan area. I’d just started a new job and couldn’t take much time. We came to Sheboygan, ate Italian food, and went to Kohler to see the Great Wall of Porcelain. We’re back. On the lake. We’re going to eat Italian food and visit the Great Wall of Porcelain!…

  • It’s smokey in Madison

    It’s smokey in Madison

    We have an Air Quality Index of 284 this morning in Madison. High numbers and Purple is not good. I’ll not be going for my brisk walk today. #Canadian #Wildfires

  • Help My Yaesu FTM-400 Stopped Beaconing APRS

    Help My Yaesu FTM-400 Stopped Beaconing APRS

    The problem started a few months ago. My radio displays #APRS messages and reports, with directions and distances just fine but won’t beacon out my own information. I’ve monkeyed around with my settings enough so that I’m not sure what I’ve changed and how, if need be, to return to where I started. Until I…

  • Managing Multiple Mastodon Profiles

    Managing Multiple Mastodon Profiles

    I suppose I could have RTFM. I have a number of #Mastodon accounts on different servers for different purposes, and I have been getting quite creative signing in to each to read and update. Tonight I asked the question “how can I manage multiple #mastodon profiles in the client?” All my mobile devices are Android…

  • Learning Flutter

    Learning Flutter

    So, I’m wrestling with learning #flutter, you know old dog new tricks. I’ve got an idea for an app that I want to be able to run in a variety of places and flutter is supposed to do that. So for the heck of it I decided to go to #chatgpt to see what kind…

  • Posting to a Mastodon Instance From Opensimulator

    Posting to a Mastodon Instance From Opensimulator

    So, Neal Stephenson appears to be fascinated with #VirtualReality. When I’ve read “Snowcrash” and now “Fall or Dodge in Hell,” I also get fascinated with it as well and install my own instance of #opensimulator. I’ve been playing with writing a script that when touching an object will prompt me to write a message that…