Many moons ago, the Army sent me to Ghana for three months (this is me getting on the plane to go home: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6604120). While there, aside from doing Army things, I got a chance to explore a bit of the local cuisine. So when we were pondering our weekly menus recently, I suggested a groundnut… Continue reading West-African-Inspired Peanut Stew
Author: Jon duSaint
Some Fediverse Notes (with some cat pictures because no one likes a wall of text)
Social media, as it’s called nowadays, hasn’t been fun in a long time, and I haven’t participated in a long time because of that. I used newsnet quite a bit back in the day (you can still find lots of my old posts on comp.sys.hp48), and of course, I’ve used IRC as well. I even… Continue reading Some Fediverse Notes (with some cat pictures because no one likes a wall of text)
Aviation Maintenance: Floorboards
The original floorboards in my plane were in fairly sorry shape. They were doing the job while just flying around, but with the seats out, crawling around in the cockpit, trying to get under the panel, was an exercise in stepping cautiously, lest a knee or elbow break through. Back when the plane was built… Continue reading Aviation Maintenance: Floorboards
Aviation Maintenance: Tailwheel, Etc.
While doing a walk-around of the Maule, I noticed a rather unfortunate crack in the tailwheel head. The bright side was that the airplane was down for some long-term maintenance anyways (avionics/instruments upgrade, described elsewhere), so I could fix this at my leisure. And, due to the rather extended downtime caused by the avionics upgrade… Continue reading Aviation Maintenance: Tailwheel, Etc.
(Semi-) Traverse of the Inyos
Having recently retired after a number of years as a staff engineer for a very fast-paced company in the tech biz, I thought that taking a few days for a bit of a hike would probably be just the mental break I was due for to catapult myself into the idle future. The only question,… Continue reading (Semi-) Traverse of the Inyos