Posted in adventure on Dec 31st, 2009 No Comments »
I was thrilled to discover that there’s a new Harbor Freight on 20th in Bellevue, right near where I used to live and only a few minutes from where I live now. Much better then having to drive down to Kent to buy cheap & dangerous tools. I was just as happy to discover that [...]
Posted in adventure on Dec 31st, 2009 No Comments »
So awhile back I heard that the DoD had taken a couple of airstreams and bolted them onto pallets for use as mobile command centers. Apparently outfitted with secure communications gear the idea is these things can be loaded into any given plane and put into the air at a moments notice. What I hadn’t [...]
Posted in adventure on Dec 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Drove up NF-56 with the intention of making a campfire to cook some lunch. I’ve started them in damp conditions before but not outright rain which is what we encountered, and I hadn’t brought any dry wood with me, so we scrubbed that idea and just ate some velvet cake in the woods instead. On [...]
Posted in adventure on Dec 18th, 2009 3 Comments »
This news is a few months old, but it was the first I had heard of it. Apparently it turns out that the super-secret special-sauce epoxy lining in SIGG bottles does contain BPA. In retrospect, SIGG never claimed to have BPA-free bottles, they just claimed their bottles didn’t leach BPA. From what I gather bottles [...]
Posted in adventure on Dec 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
Not much to report, but we’ve moved into our new place with a nice view of the mountains. Not in Boston anymore!