Charles Mauch @cmauch@mauch.social

Today I learned that some backpackers don't wear backpacks. They use pack goats.

I have this image in my head of hiking around the PNW with a string of little minions behind me carrying my stuff.

https://packgoats.wordpress.com/

Photos from my #biketour / #backpacking trip into the olympics. http://mauch.photos/s/15zam4vvkv/vacation-2021

Interesting documentary on #bitcoin and #energy (money)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7dMVcVWgc

I can't stop watching. Makes me want to go live off-grid too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxM9FYSs8V4

Back from vacation. Will post album of photos later on. It was great fun, if a bit exhausting.

Heading out on vacation in the morning. Will be out of contact for two weeks or so.

Route planned is viewable at https://caltopo.com/m/GGVFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ

Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGanLUnjoPI

Downloaded my #bicycle commutes into a spreadsheet. Just because.

Most of these stats don't surprise me much.

Miles Day: 12.61
Miles Year: 3,278

Elev Gain Day: 764ft
Elev Gain Year: 198,558ft

Average Speed: 14.06 mph
Moving Time: 00:53:55

Finished my #biketour of the Hood Canal yesterday. Awesome ride, if a bit hot. 41C yesterday when I got home.

Vacation finally begins. Spending a week on the bicycle camping out. Leaving Wednesday morning.

FIrst two days will be in State Parks. Then across the floating hood canal bridge and into the national forest.

I've decided the apple watch just is not a good accessory for CNA's. Mine looks pretty awful after a year of being exposed (repeatedly) to harsh cleaners and poop.

Going to try replacing it (at least for work) with a cheap casio gshock. I just need the current time, some alarms, and a countdown timer for measuring pulse/respiration.

Every once in a while Oliver covers something I've experienced. Just about everything described here is true.

One thing that isn't covered (and I wish it was) is how the virus has affected staffing in nursing homes. There are very few permanent nurses and aides these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xlol-SNQRU

Finally filed my taxes. What a pain.

Next year should be easier. I don't plan on trading or selling any cryptocurrency.

Brandmeister and TGIF just sucked in my new call/radioid. Just about all traces of my old callsign are now gone.

I have a three-day weekend coming up in a week. Big plan is to throw up a 20m speaker-wire dipole in the tree next to the house and see what the RFI is like.

That and go for a long bike ride.

@paladin1 Gross is when random folks proudly show off their humongous cyst or oozing infection. But it hasn't been a thing for a while now. Lately I've been doing my grocery shopping online.

@M0YNG Vanity call sign. Sequential number I was assigned was hard to quickly get out of my mouth so I applied for a new one while the application is still free.

Studying for general license now. I’m in no rush so I’ll probably test for the upgrade later this month. I expect it’ll take a few months of studying before I test for extra.