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Cool Down

April 22, 2020 by

I can go without ice, a great sacrifice I know, but there was good company in camp and my white wine provisions were warm. “Ag, for shame” I hear you say. Poor planning or misaligned priorities the accusations will rightly say.

There should be no part of a gentleman’s soul that should go meekly into a room or camp with a warm bottle of something white if it can be helped, “death before dishonour” and all that.

So with good company, cheer, and honor at-stake, primal instincts went into play.… Read More

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Dispatches

Reverse Icarus

October 6, 2019 by

Conventional wisdom would dictate that an inexperienced, unaccompanied, overlander not take an unproven rig — without recovery points — out onto unknown terrain

All of that might later be proven to be true, but..

I’d be remiss not to point out that, it was caution, that got me…… Read More

Dispatches

Shark Tanks

September 27, 2019 by

Thud

Well that escalated quickly.

Gone was the use of my right leg, my kicking leg.

There were three of them, all black belts, two of them (if I recall) instructors facing me.

Right out of the gate, not yet 7 seconds in, I’d eaten one hell of a roundhouse.

My leg buckled… Read More

Tips & Tricks

Links

July 28, 2019 by

I steeled myself and refocused on the mission at hand. Asking that comparative lit major that had captivated and occupied my attention out.… Read More

Dispatches

Moonshots

July 19, 2019 by

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”… Read More

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The History Box

March 28, 2019 by

We never quite determined if it it would function purely as an educational opportunity or a thinly veiled disciplinary tool, perhaps both.… Read More

Dispatches

Shakedown

March 4, 2019 by

Huh, that’s new… I have a history of stumbling across, long-established and more easily accessible, lessons the hard-way.… Read More

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