It was cool I got to test my chops and pick the brain of a retired fund manager today. A couple that lives in the same little lakeside community my Dad and stepmom live in dropped by for a visit, returning from their usual home in Oregon. It was cool to ask a former manager in a tradfi services firm about his take on current events and his outlook for the next year. Sent him a copy of David Rogers Webb’s book. Should blow his mind.

Got to go for a rip into the mountains on the quads with my good old Dad today. We ended up about 3000’ above the lake. The first pic shows the point on the lakeshore 500yd down the lake from Dad and stepmom’s house. In the last one you can see the same point of land in the far distance.

Home fabricated wood splitter. Dad putting his mechanical engineering to work. Mounted a generator with a 10hp Tecumseh to the custom chassis built from an old trailer. The generator now powers a hydraulic pump and the 20,000lb hydraulic ram.

I can’t get over the trees here in BC bs northern AB. This Ponderosa Pine is 36” at the base and the largest limbs are more than 12” diameter.

Pretty sweet spot my Dad carved out here. #bc

The trusty steed made it. 12h15min. Only $125 worth of petrol, even at 30% higher fuel prices. I priced out flying and term parking and transit to nearest airports and the whole trip would have been $875. This will be about $300. Plus the bottle of whiskey and a jacket for my Dad’s birthday.

One hour into a 12 hour drive. Heading to BC to visit my dad for his 80th birthday. Rocking out to some @Contra

Haha sold my mint 2012 PS3 and a couple of decent games on local marketplace for $200 tonight. Met the guy at the gym parking lot 20 mins ago. Funding a little smash buy tomorrow. Too bad I didn’t buy BTC with the money spent on the console and those games in 2012-2015.

There is no excuse in 2026 why iOS voice to text recognition and context based spelling for it is so poor. And why new contact phone number entries still default to “home” rather than “mobile” for phone type.