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Some of you will remember the great wreck tragedy of last September. In this debacle, I lost my rudder. https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/rogue-and-peasant-slave/ I have been rudderless ever since and this has brought down misery and pain in my professional and private lives. … Continue reading →

These have been very good days. I have been at a meeting where people come and talk about science stuff.  I have met many old friends and it is reassuring that some of them still recognize me. Tomomi and I … Continue reading →

So I go to a far off land with great dread. My last long distance excursions have resulted in illness and I am very twitchy that the same thing is going to happen again. I make it through the first … Continue reading →

Not having felt well for some time I go for a major health check at the Adventist Medical Center. It starts off bizarrely. On the drive down I am listening to a ‘This American Life’ podcast. I put my IPhone … Continue reading →

For most of my professional life, my main tool has been the telephone. It rang all the time and I could get to know people all over the place, make jokes. You could not see them so you could imagine. … Continue reading →

So Jonathan and Renee left Okinawa today. Yesterday we held a  surprise Bye Bye event at the university. Hundreds of staff lined the 100 metre long entrance gallery. They clapped, shouted, held up signs and played music as Jonathan and … Continue reading →

I have written about my beach several times but who cares as she is endlessly fascinating. I have not been posting stuff recently as I really have not done much, having been weakened by Beri Beri, Black Monkey Fever, Crimea-Congo … Continue reading →

  So, I finally emerge from my bed of sickness on Monday morning. My flight leaves early Wednesday, so there is just time for a small Tacoma adventure. James and I head for the hills. We play with all the … Continue reading →

I wake up and immediately understand that the game plan has changed. I am sick again. I spend 3 days asleep and coughing in San Francisco.   Rather than riding over the purple sage in new truck, I only shuffle from bed … Continue reading →

The very well defined objective of this trip was to drive down to Death Valley and spend some days in the Geologist’s Cabin.   It is very nice there. You can pretend to be a gold miner and we had … Continue reading →