Camping at Machicomoco State Park
Trip: 56
Nights: 187-190
And the 2026 camping season has started. We spent the weekend at Machicomoco State Park near Gloucester, VA. It’s only a 70-minute drive from home. Until a few weeks ago it was Virginia’s newe…
County Roads, Take Me Home
My phone served up a cover version of this John Denver classic as I was chauffeuring my wife around yesterday. Something about the lyric hit me in a way that I’d never noticed before.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge M…
That’s a lot of work for a name tag.
15 weeks of classes, 5 or 6 field trips, a final exam, and a practical application (I made a zine) to earn this.
Sunday Dreary Sunday
After some much needed rain last night, the temps barely hit 50°F (10°C) today, with the wind making it feel much cooler. I have not left the house today. I haven’t really left the computer. I had some much needed vacation research…
I’ve been tweaking the CSS for the site
I’ve spent the morning tweaking CSS for the site. Please let me know if anything is off for you. It all appears to be fine on my desktop and phone.
Q1 Books
I keep the list of books I read at the books link above. Here are the highlights from the first quarter of 2026.
The Society of Unknowable Objects: This follow up to The Book of Doors mostly delivers.
Life After Cars: A depressing look at all …
Last night was the final lecture class for Virginia Master Naturalist training. 35 hours of classes, 10+ hours of field trips, and a few additional hours of continuing education since January. It was like being back in night school, except that most of…
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Oops
I had a catastrophic OS error, probably self-induced. I’ve reinstalled the operating system (technically moved from Debian 13 to Linux Mint, because why not try a new OS if I have to install from scratch?), and I’ve learned I wasn’t backing up my …
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Thinking about blogging here. ODonnellWeb will stay as is, as archives, and I’ll just start putting new posts here moving forward. Maybe.
