Category: travel
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Bear Spray will work on any mammal with eyes.
Reading Time: < 1 minute https://www.advnture.com/features/does-bear-spray-work-on-wolves I was curious about whether bear spray or pepper spray would be good to carry, now that wolves are common, and being spotted by skiers, hikers, and dameuse drivers (Dameuse are ski piste tractors that repair the pistes while people enjoy Après Ski drinks.
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Exhausted by Noise Pollution
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday the drive was easy. 12-13 hours of easy driving with good road conditions. The exhaustion came from having neighbours that start making noise at 20:00 so the “early bed time” you planned is ruined. I woke at 0230 and by 0330 I was driving for 12hrs straight. If I…
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From a Walk in Spain
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am too tired to write, not from a long drive, but from being kept awake by Arlequino. before a long drive. I leave you with blossom today.
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Cyclist Sightings
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I went for a walk, during which I listened to two podcasts via AudioBookShelf, but that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is that the seasons have changed. The snow has melted and there was a brief interlude in rain so plenty of people…
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Setting Up AudioBookShelf
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been an audible member for years at this point and in that time I have “bought” hundreds of books. I write “bought” because I payed for a Platinum account for years and got credits and got the books with those credits. Over the years I have collected more books…
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Cloud Storage Tiers
Reading Time: 2 minutes On the 17th of February I will stop using Google One Drive and I was looking at the smaller tiers. You have 15 gigabytes for free, 100, and 200 gigabyte options, and then 200 gigabytes. At the moment I have 200 GB on Google Drive for documents and three hundred GB…
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The Nicest Pi Setup Yet
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are several types of people. One of them is youtubers that try and fail until they succeed, and then there are people like me, who also try and fail until they succeed. In one case the individual probably gets millions of views, and earns enough to waste hundreds of dollars…