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April 19, 2025 – Patriots Day and the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution

Hi all – its been a hot minute since I posted here. Nothing much super interesting has happened since my last post prior today (outside of my niece’s wedding – but that is her news to share 🙂 Every year in Massachusetts, the people of the Commonwealth and in particular Lexington and Concord commemorate the ...

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Year end 2023 and start of 2024

So it got a bit busy as I look back through my recent photos. I also finally figured out how to synchronize my Windows PC with my iCloud iPhone photos (easy but you have to look it up via Google search because you need some helper apps…). So this post has some photos from prior ...

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Blogging is a habit – one I am going to try and re-acquire

I realized this morning it has been more than a year since my last post. I am going to try and be and do more writing here. So – this morning it is crystal blue sky and the first day where we have had two hard frosts in a row. There is actually ice (not ...

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San Diego and catching up with old friends

Darren Bedell – a roommate of mine from UC San Diego – retired from NASA this year and he got a bunch of us from our school days organized for a get together and we all rented a couple of condos in Pacific Beach down on the boardwalk. It was great catching up with everyone ...

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General catchup post – 2022!

This is a general catchup post – its been a busy year for work, and with Covid, I haven’t been doing a ton of interesting things. But me and my friends from College did get together in September and I promised myself to do a bit better with posting updates than I have been previously. ...

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2021 is in the rear view mirror

Hello all – a bit of a lag updating here. All the standard craziness of year end and I also updated my computer (the old desktop was maybe 8 years old and starting to have problems that were indicative of a motherboard failure). Anyway – what has been going on in Carlisle? First off it ...

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Indian Summer in Carlisle – 2021 edition

Mid-October and cool evenings/mornings but very, very nice days with a fair amount of humidity. Feels a bit odd to tell the truth. The trees around us are kind of all over the place. Some of the maples are almost completely nude having dropped all their leaves while other trees haven’t even started turning colors. ...

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Hot and Humid September

I had some work events wrap up on September 1st so I was able to take the week after the Labor Day holiday off and it was a lot of outdoors yard work kind of stuff. Good fun – but really, really hot and humid all month so far. A couple of days ago, Hanscom ...

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Hot August and Tropical Storm Henri

Good morning – I am glad to see that posts are working again – yay!!. I am not sure why the email notification of a post is not happening but will look at that in the future. What’s going on this week? Well, as you would expect, August in Massachusetts is hot and HUMID! yesterday ...

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Will more server memory actually get this blog back online after 3 years??

Hi everyone – I have what is called in the Technology biz a “Vintage” package with my hosting provider and I was getting memory errors logging in to create new posts, put up pictures and what not. I got part way through moving to a new plan on GoDaddy (which is excellent) but that is ...