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Early March Update

Well, we’re less than a month until Sakura Con, and I’m looking forward to it! My friend Mike is flying in again, so it should be a fun time, long as I don’t twist my ankle again… I’ll be more careful this year! I took some time earlier to repost some convention reports from years ... Read More

Quick Update and Some Planning

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The trip I mentioned in the last post went well! It was a very long day, but I survived it somehow. I upgraded my gaming PC last year, recently got a new work laptop, so I’m in the market to next upgrade my personal laptop. My current laptop is an Acer Swift X purchased in ... Read More

Forthcoming Travel

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I’m making a one-day trip back to Atlanta this coming weekend, so this is a chance to apply what I’ve learned. I won’t be staying in a hotel on this trip, so I’m not going to worry about packing a laptop. I am, however, going to need to carry charging cables for multiple things. It ... Read More

Future Travel Considerations, Part 3

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A third post on this? Yeah… One tiny update: I’ve decided to pivot back to D-STAR from DMR. Most of the time I just monitor the radio, and it’s far easier in my opinion to link a hotspot to a D-STAR reflector or repeater. Plus, this lets me use my TH-D74 which does APRS a ... Read More

Future Travel Considerations, Part 2

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I touched briefly on electronics in the last post. Okay, maybe not so briefly, but I think I should do a better job of surveying what I’d be carrying and what charging I would need. Current potential devices (as of Oct 2025): – Personal laptop (Acer Swift X) – while I believe this will charge ... Read More

Future Travel Considerations

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I wrote a post on Pocket Networks yesterday about solo travel considerations related to the project chronicled on that blog, and I mentioned that actual deepdive into the actual onebag travel bit would be on this blog, so here we go. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to attain true “onebag” status where all ... Read More

Conventions, Sans Cars

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A few years ago, I wrote about attending Anime Weekend Atlanta without needing to rent a car. I was looking at the area around where AWA used to take place a couple days ago, and learned there is a CobbLinc bus route that connects to MARTA’s Red/Gold line that goes to the airport that has ... Read More

A New Convention to Write About: The Sakura-Con 2025 Post

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Hi there! Just over a year ago I moved to Seattle, and the weekend after I arrived was Sakura-Con. I had to work that weekend, so I didn’t go to it. Not to be defeated, I reached out to friends to see if anyone wanted to go this year, and one of them, the most ... Read More

Radios, Musing, and Adjusting

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In about a month, I’ll have officially held an amateur radio license for 25 years. While the requirement to join the Quarter Century Wireless Association is to be in the 25th year since the date of your first licensing. Mine was in 1999, so I was eligible January 1. At that point, I was unsure ... Read More

Post Olympics Retrospective

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Well, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad have drawn to a close: it has been wonderful to watch as it happened, and it’s been 28 years since it took place in my hometown of Atlanta, GA, where I was able to go to the Global Olympic Village at Centennial Olympic Park during the Games. That ... Read More