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My riding, despite the beautiful weather, has been sporadic because of health. Today Under increasing stress from the Government I rode to the Post Office to mail my taxes to the US bean counters.

Ty for the education and terminology, nicely laid out though a task beyond me. In the US Navy I was an aviation tech…for a short period only because…I could type and they needed a clerk… and the quality of my work made the pilots nervous

But I did read of a rural Irish postman who retired after 40 years of delivering the mail, rain or shine, on his bicycle. I wonder what he’d think of ebikes?

New catalysts for making Hydrogen are making it more economic to produce. Also Hydrogen production in the Gulf of Mexico via wind and transported via NG infrastructure to shore is proposed spoiler alert…check your facts about the Hindenburg fire and its cause

Hydrogen…economical green (and blue) H will make its mark in industry before transportation which in itself would displace some hydrocarbons

An interesting comparison of ICE and BEV. Author takes pains to show his methodology https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/02/gas-cars-are-embarrassingly-uncompetitive-lifecycle-cost-analysis/

Twin V…west of here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge they call Mules four wheel drive horses for trail rides BTW…my tick problems are with the Lonestar Tick…another noxious import (I assume) from Texas.

i rode further than yesterday (11miles) and a bit more energetically. I felt over-dressed standing in the sunshine of my yard but soon I hit the open main road and was struck by a discouraging cool wind that wasn't supposed to be there. It abated at the first bend. By the time I passed Miz...

I love Corb…his song about the vet’s medicine bag was a favorite with the boys at Orange Livestock. I agree with the song but unfortunately will not have cattle this year. Recent health problems related to a tick will do away with my tax break…and waste my greening pastures. So let another...

The new owner has spruced up the place and just put this herd in place.

Making History by Richard Cohen ”before you study history, study the historian” Great book I’m barely half through

/s is unnecessary…I see it so often now in comments in the Washington Post. One gets it or not like a New Yorker cartoon which I admit to often not getting.

Sounds reasonable to me…except the part about bird brains…see Jennifer Ackerman’s “Genius of Birds”

Here in the mid-Atlantic region generally, and central Virginia specifically, this is a very early spring, earliest I can remember…the birds, the tree buds, flowers…and my allergist agree

TIME is more a tick of the heart than the clock…really… still…high noon should be HIGH noon whether you have a plant in your closet or animals in the pasture. Science says Standard time is best…

I took my first ride today with the “Classic” version and though the wind levels were low there was a reduction in hiss that affects my hearing aids. I’ll know in a hundred miles and a few fast hills…

Wet and drab when I left for an eleven mile loop yet tomorrow looks worse. This ride was my first with a cheap ($15) sound-dampening velcro fuzz for my helmet straps. though the wind today was light they seem to reduce the hiss riding over my hearing aids. The recent thread on wind speed...

That bike is faster than a Putin Hypersonic. It would be illegal in the EU

That’s ‘geologist’ to you. Charles Lyell, eminent Briton, would be disappointed in you

Actually you’re shoveling s@#$ against the tide