I decided to step out of my comfort zone and play a tournament far, far away. The Hyzer Project, a one round PDGA sanctioned qualifying tournament. My destination was Riverside, 100 miles north, a quick 90 minutes with fast track. I had never played the course, so I...
Let fly the Discs of War…er, Fun.
The Ides of March 2024 Gardening -- how wonderful to bring fresh green life into your own, to tend and observe and smell the freshness of it all. I always had a black thumb until I learned how to grow marijuana, of all things. But plants are all basically the same,...
Hey, this the Galactic Joe experience…
Earth
Elon The 21st c is known as the age of the Titans, the great free marketeers that took us to the Moon,Mars, the Belt, and then the stars themselves, the Greatest of these was a Man named Elon Musk, he alone was able to overcome the entrenched bureaucracy that was...
I have seen so much, so far, but the Question remains, what happened to Mars? And my Beautiful Wife? So I asked, and It looked askance, I was used to that. They had something to hide, and I needed to find out, “Why did you kill my home world? you know...
Arrival 20 hours Ship time, compressed into minutes, we had a concept of what FTL looked like, but this was beyond all conception, not just visual, but a complete sensory experience, like we had never felt, and then it was gone, and, behold… The System had...
The Void (memory access2552) As a child I read sci fi, all the classics, Niven and Pournelle, Heinlein, and wanted to take my place among the stars, but me as a ne’er do well in a rich family, Pops was already pissed I didn’t at least join the Military, A...
Cap, we have a Sensor lock, 20 minutes, (memory access 2552) we have chased this thing for 2 months now, following a Heliocentric orbit, aimed at Mars again, why? We have been Fukin with it, close fast passes to see when they would bounce us, we got used...
She has become a distraction….
The Black (memory access 2552)The plans Gwen and I had, vacations on Earth, she was fond of the Beach in SoCal, but after the Wars, they had to create a resort with artificial beaches and waves, but she didn’t care. I prefer Big trees, and we still have them,...
The adventure continues.
The Return
But I digress.
Heating isn’t an issue….
The lost Generation I feel as if I am one of a forgotten generation, Maybe you could say a Lost generation, I’m not sure, but here’s a few thoughts. I speak to/of the kids born from ‘62 til about ‘74, basically my age to about 47 now, where do we fit in the...
The earliest migrants followed the trails from spring to spring.
She was my granddaughter’s wish.
Yusef looks back.
Where were we? Oh, the seeds arrived and were planted, 4 in rock wool and one in Miracle Gro Indoor soil, as I thought, the soil planted seeds came up first, 2 days earlier than Rock wool, but the RW had good root structure immediately, so they took to...
A travelogue from Yusef!
So I decided to grow some plants again.
Dawn approaches, trickles of pink, mix with grey dawn, In the east, Ice fog obscures, hoarfrost coated trees, shimmering in silver, sunrise clear and cold, a crisp blue sky, shattered by wind, and patterned in cloud, to turn away, from pervasive fiends, you cannot win...
Life amidst Desolation.