Category: Miscellaneous babble

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Podcast list v2

Since I started with the podcast listening on the commute, I’ve found a bunch more podcasts to listen to over the last few months to deal with the longer commute from the house.

Depending on how much I’m listening during the day, this gives me plenty to listen to throughout the week, keeps me entertained and educated.

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Moved in, time to unpack

Moving day #1 went off pretty well yesterday, with only a brief interruption by rain towards the end of the unloading at the house.

Got up early, brought the dogs and a few more things to the house, then off to get the truck rental from Home Depot. Got pretty much everything from the apartment loaded up into the truck. Towards the end, I was a little worried we were going to run out of room, but everything that needed to go managed to get onto the truck.

There are still a few odds and ends at the apartment, but those can all be loaded into the cars over the next few days.

Now the process of unpacking begins. Lots to do to get the shack and office set up.

In two weeks, Moving day #2 to get all the stuff from the storage unit to the house.

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Three years

She’sHe not really dead. As long as we remember herhim.
– McCoy, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

There’s a lot of wisdom collected in Star Trek.

It’s been three years since Theresa died. A lot has happened in the past three years, but she’s never been very far from my thoughts.

The hops tower is on the way to my office, and I usually stop to see how the hops are doing. It hasn’t sprouted any hops flowers since the first year, but the hops continue to grow. One of my projects is to figure out how to assemble the hops tower photos I took from the past year into a time lapse movie.

The memories I have will stay with me, and as long as they do, a part of her will still be around.

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Podcast list

I’ve outfitted the phone with a podcast player (Podcast Addict) and loaded it up with a bunch of podcasts. They’re mostly amateur radio related, but not all of them.

Amateur Radio podcasts

Other podcasts

A few of the podcasts are 15-30 minutes long, while most of them are around the 50-60 minute duration. Some of them only update with new episodes once a month while others are weekly. With my current commute, I’m able to get through about 1 or podcast episodes each day in the car, and if I decide to listen at my desk, another episode or two. This means I’m never out of episodes to listen to.

The podcast mix will probably change, and I’ll probably find some more to add to the list later. I’d like to find some other science/physics type podcasts to add. This is a pretty good start though, and I’m enjoying listening to them during the daily commute.

Of course all this podcast listening has cut down the amount of NPR listening I do on the radio, but given the current state of affairs of the country, that’s probably saving me some aggravation.

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New car

Purchased a new-to-us used car a few days ago. We were originally looking at a 2014 Camry that had fairly low miles, but unfortunately it had been sold by the time we made the trip to the dealership to look at it.

We expanded our search criteria and ended up finding a 2014 Chevy Cruze with about 40k miles on it in really good condition and for a pretty good price.

For a very brief period, we were a three car household.

That didn’t last too long and we were able to sell the Camry and get back down to two cars.

The Cruze drives pretty well, has a lot of fancy new computer-y features that the Camry didn’t have. Being a newer car, there’s a lot more monitoring information available (tire pressure, gallons of fuel used, fuel efficiency, etc) that wasn’t around when the Camry was new.

The Aux input for the sound system is nice and I can play the podcasts I’ve been accumulating on my phone through the car speakers.

I think we managed to find a pretty decent car that I hope we’ll be able to hang on to for a long time.