tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86259046689908838152024-03-08T03:34:24.418-08:00This Makes No Sense At AllA mostly hiking blog, though sometimes the connection is nebulousTimecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-85682267891693644082020-11-20T22:11:00.000-08:002020-11-20T22:11:04.728-08:00Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find). This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-33804712767358037412020-08-24T17:55:00.000-07:002020-08-24T17:55:36.547-07:00Rebekah's Gazpacho recipeWe have a bunch of tomatoes in the back yard, very slow to produce, but the moment is at hand When such a moment arrives, I go to Rebekah's Gazpacho recipe (she had two, red and white, and my favorite is the red.moratinoslife.blogspot.com/2010/07/coming-soon-to-table-near-you Since I started this post, we have been sampling these tomatoes until not enough left for gazpacho. However, if Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-73448532723678928292019-12-08T17:40:00.005-08:002020-08-05T11:53:22.258-07:00My alerts to blogs of interest have vanished, and I miss themI used to have all the blogs I followed in Google Reader, and a notice from it
was something I looked forward to. However, as in many things Google, they
decided in their infinite wisdom to drop that product. I dutifully looked for
another product and choose Feedly. That worked, I think for months, maybe a year
or so, but recently I realized that I was no longer hearing about Moratinos, or
from Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-38075395113602182322018-07-25T12:44:00.001-07:002020-08-03T14:22:45.968-07:00How to post Instagram from your Windows 10 desktop, including pictures
1. You need to have the Chrome browser
2. Open Chrome
3. Chrome will show you a New Tab. Right click somewhere in the chrome area. At the bottom of the list, we are looking for "inspect".
If it is NOT there, turn on developer tools by left clicking those three vertical periods to the far right of the search bar at the top. Then left click More Tools, then left click Developer tools.
&Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-1111158053878301292018-04-08T17:56:00.001-07:002020-08-03T16:18:41.910-07:00The Pineapple Express, or View from the Umbrella Susan and I have different walking paces. We enjoy walking together, but one day a week I get to a long hike (six hours or so). I've got many options, local quasi wilderness trails on dirt paths, or city or neighborhood streets to a coffee shop at the appropriate distance. Rain generally sends me out on paved streets routes. But Friday was different.
Last Thursday night weathercasters were Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-44843709984417271012018-01-26T11:13:00.001-08:002020-08-05T10:10:51.886-07:00Anatomy of what goes into our digital presentations - example Caminos Norte & Primitivo for REIPeople sometimes ask me what software we use, why not Powerpoint, etc. so I'm going to log my thoughts and progress in building our presentation for REI.
First of all, the software. Back in the late 90s when I was dealing with Powerpoint in a business setting, it was really kludgy, a typical Microsoft product of the time. So, I am biased against Powerpoint, probably unwarranted for the current Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-40134809027680814732018-01-05T12:49:00.001-08:002020-08-03T16:21:06.932-07:00Kindle Revisted again - this time for Healing MilesDec 2017 and I am putting Susan's new book, Healing Miles, out to Kindle. I assume things will have changed again in the Kindle world since the last book (in 2012), so I'm logging my steps for my benefit and maybe yours.
First step was to copy the Indesign file that represented the final version sent to Createspace and Lightning Source (print on design companies). Indesign puts out a PDF file Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-14341336082032703012017-09-15T17:38:00.002-07:002020-08-03T16:25:27.132-07:00Rum Cake - A rediscovered recipeI picked up my James Beard Cookbook the other day, looking for his curry sauce recipe, which I had not made for several years. In the fold of the book was this piece of yellow lined paper with a handwritten recipe for rum cake. The last time I had made this recipe was maybe 30 years ago, and origin of the recipe long forgotten.
We had a need for dessert to share in a couple of days, and on Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-41228662697907880332015-10-23T12:55:00.002-07:002020-08-03T16:27:13.480-07:00Camino Norte trip report - spring and fall 2015 - the logistics
Guemes Albergue
Camino trails have been an almost annual event for us, but in 2014 a mysterious period of severe leg pains struck Susan, limiting her walking to a hundred yards or so for a while. Throughout 2014 and early this year, she has gradually been extending her distance, more thru ibuprofen and walking through the pain than anything else. When she was able to do nine miles, we decided Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-33682538963774541942014-11-20T12:02:00.001-08:002020-08-03T16:28:33.991-07:00New Orleans - Once Again
Walking through the French Quarter
A few posts ago I wrote of This Ain't No Mouse Music and our Louisiana addiction that was displaced by long distance hiking. We've been restless this year, grounded from hiking, no walks through Spain or France. When we spotted a cheap flight to New Orleans, that old obsession beckoned. Five days. Arrive Weds midnight and return Monday afternoon. Our plan wasTimecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-88970213987305577862014-10-18T10:55:00.002-07:002020-08-03T16:29:17.448-07:00A long, familiar walk, but always some new imagesWhen Susan and I are training, or these days, when Susan is still recovering and my body needs to walk, we have a local walk of about ten miles. The incentive is a local bakery, five miles away. A croissant and a coffee primes us for the return. The bakery is at 300 feet elevation, we are at 1100, so mostly down for the first half, and up all the way back. This is a two or three times a week tripTimecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-59032279905746297152014-10-09T10:52:00.002-07:002020-08-03T16:30:04.052-07:00Hot weather hiking affliction: Golfer's Vasculitis
This sock had elasticized top
Chances are, you hot weather hikers have seen something like this. That's my leg you're looking at, yesterday's view, and not much of a concern to me since I knew what it was.
The first encounter was a scare - on Susan's leg while hiking in France, and we had no idea what it was. Just it came on while hiking in very hot weather, and was right under the Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-72022269306932319742014-10-07T15:43:00.001-07:002020-08-03T16:30:39.246-07:00Galapagos - Experience of a Lifetime
I love hiking and traveling. Each trip brings experiences I want to remember forever. I'm sort of shy though, about assuming others will share the same feelings. Galapagos is the exception, and possibly Torres del Paine. If a trip to the Galapagos Islands is in your realm of possibilities, do your best to make it happen. The Galapagos part of our expedition was an organized two week trip by Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-86569519447548409302014-09-30T16:01:00.003-07:002020-08-03T16:31:22.418-07:00Of mammals, mostly, travels and a snake glimpseMore tales from grounded hikers. Susan can walk a few blocks but our normal long distance treks are temporarily on hold. So... our meantime activities.
Take my word for it, youngster rats are sort of cute. They're also pretty fast, so don't have a photo to prove it. Roof rats are endemic in this area, at least since the white man arrived. The city even has a department to help control them - Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-13213142495173105362014-09-23T14:18:00.002-07:002020-08-03T21:37:01.534-07:00This Ain't No Mouse Music!Susan and I have been together twenty-seven years now, and since 2001 have been almost obsessively caught up in long-distance hiking, writing about it, doing it. All these twenty-seven years though, we have had a shadow life, caught up in Cajun music, later in Zydeco, and have always loved the way music is embedded in the culture of Louisiana. In 1987 we took Cajun dance lessons from Diana Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-6344739490732242432014-09-06T12:29:00.002-07:002020-08-03T21:40:33.889-07:00Not Walking, and what fills the voidWe just cancelled our Sept. flight to Northern Spain a week or so ago (Norte route). First time in some twenty years that we have not done a major hike or backpack of some sort, and first time in 10 years that we have not been walking a Camino route. Susan has intense leg pain if she walks any uphill distance at all beyond about 10 minutes - according to her doctor, just something that needs restTimecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-12809810668374107452014-07-14T09:55:00.001-07:002020-08-03T21:41:48.077-07:00Chuck's annual birthday party, Zydeco and the Camino ConnectionWe are having a strange year, with an absence of our usual hiking, thus no posts for a while. Still, we took in the Galapagos, and some of Ecuador. That may be a future post, but this one is about our friends Tom and Patricia, and his video of Chuck's annual Zydeco birthday party. Tom has a gift for faces, and skip my text to watch it if need be. However, I can give it more context.
In January Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-7243274639950593692013-11-24T20:23:00.003-08:002020-08-03T21:42:29.762-07:00Can a Mondegreen be a single word?From Wikipedia: Mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony.
As a child, my hearing was good, but sometimes the cognitive processes couldn't quite make sense of what I heard. Around Christmas time, as Silent Night was sung, I visualized "sleep in heavenly peace" as "sleep in heavenly peas."
Life goes on, I eventually learned the less interesting Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-83206061869603254132013-11-20T13:08:00.004-08:002021-04-12T17:47:43.949-07:00Spot Global Phone - satellite phone reviewApril 2021. This product is still supported but no longer in production.-----------------------------I have frequently wished that I had a sat phone, but weight and cost considerations have held me back. findmespot.com's new phone at $499 with monthly and annual service plans caught my attention, and when they offered me a loaner for review purposes, I jumped at the chance.
When the phone Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-45069832741579879222013-10-15T19:32:00.003-07:002020-08-04T16:35:48.803-07:00Albany Bulb - Why not establish an Urban Wilderness Area?
For an overview of the Bulb, see Wikipedia.
This rubble and rubbish filled landfill, projecting into San
Francisco Bay, has benefited from benign neglect, it has a world class view and
is now slated to become parkland. However, there are some complicating factors,
the folk art, the resident homeless, and the risk factor perceived by city and
park authorities.
I’ve been walking here Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-15641609430398401702013-09-01T14:43:00.001-07:002020-08-04T16:46:08.022-07:00You're backpacking the John Muir Trail? You're how old?
heading towards Donahue Pass
approaching Glen Pass
Every once in a while we meet some young men on the trail - 30ish, and they go on and on about how great it is that we are out on the trail. We have figured out that they think we are old and thus a novelty. We thought we were just other hikers, participating in what we sometimes look at as an extreme sport. Hiking and backpacking areTimecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-87411671675375366822013-04-16T11:46:00.001-07:002020-08-03T21:45:22.619-07:00My Youtube video channel and my slide softwareWe've just been doing training hikes lately, primarily on city streets. Our goal is two or three long hikes a week. (at least 10 miles). We discovered that Semifreddi's bakery is 5 plus miles from our house, depending on route, so we make the journey there, carrying our packs, have a pastry, buy a sandwich for the trip back, and return home. Voila! 10 miles. They give out these little cardsTimecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-55812322249697486242013-02-20T10:11:00.001-08:002020-08-03T21:46:00.558-07:00Camino Chronicle could use a few more good reviews
You may have wondered about my blog name "This Makes No Sense At All". It came about because one of the things we have always loved about hiking is the consistently wonderful community of hikers, when we meet them on the trail. No matter what their circumstances in the real world, on the trail they are without exception, friendly and go out of their way to be helpful.
When we got more Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-8061891506891957982012-12-18T11:35:00.001-08:002020-08-03T21:47:09.091-07:00Kindle Revisited (a publishing post - not hiking)About a two years ago I posted on the process of putting our first two books on Kindle - converting-our-books-to-kindle-work-in.html. That involved getting a text file from the original page making software (Pagemaker and Indesign), and putting that text into a Word file just to get Word's ability to put out an html file. Getting the initial text was messy as I had the original Indesign CS. The Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625904668990883815.post-61835138498985527582012-11-14T09:57:00.002-08:002020-08-04T16:43:39.514-07:00Patagonia Chronicle, out at lastOur hiking has suffered the last few months, as we first cautiously watched for success of Susan's new medication, and then focused every waking minute on getting Patagonia Chronicle: Walking to Torres del Paine out the door. It finally got up on Amazon a week or so ago, and we have fifty-some on hand. Much nicer than the earlier books where we would have about 3500 books arrive at the door and Timecheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03655966328174898998noreply@blogger.com3