Quadcopter on Notes from the Rabbit Hole

State of the Nerd

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:28:57 -0400

What have I been up to since Bald Head Island?

Travel:

The weekend after Bald Head Island, I took the family to Hanging Rock State Park. The trip was a mixed bag. I think it was too soon after Bald Head Island, and we weren’t ready to have that much adventure again quite so soon. The rustic cabin accommodations within the park were deemed by the family to be a bit too rustic, and we actually cut the trip a little short. The park was also having some problems with aggressive hornets all around the camping area while we were there. My great adventure was sitting in a rocking chair, smoking my pipe and finishing a good book. We’d like to go back, but will probably find lodging outside of the park. Yes, we like our adventures to have some creature comforts at the end of the day. No apologies for that.

update of random stuff

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:43:00 -0400

I haven’t been blogging enough. I thought I’d just throw random updates out there and see what resonates.

Health & Wellness

Back in September we moved to a new office space that, from a sensory overload and anxiety perspective, has not been good for me. In that time, I’ve gained fifty pounds. I’ve been putting some effort recently into losing that weight. Starting from three hundred and twenty pounds, I’m down to three hundred and four in about a month. Not bad.

Head in the Clouds

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:58:44 -0400

When I was a kid, I remember thinking I might like to be a helicopter pilot when I grew up. Movies like Blue Thunder got way too much love from me as a kid (really, it was an awful movie). I looked forward to every new episode of Airwolf, and even watched the reruns. But then I grew up, and I learned how godawful expensive it was to fly helicopters recreationally, and how unlikely it was I could ever get paid to fly them because of medical reasons.