I just finished a Dirty Gig. For new readers, that is the underbelly of this blog — laboring in disaster clean up situations to fund the road trip. So, alas, we are not all travel and glamour … LOL. On many trips, the Dirty Gig takes up most of the time, leaving only a few […]

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The PingWi-Fi entourage just touched down in Ontario, Calif., but before we start another West Coast Wi-Fi tour, there is some unfinished business … family business … “old home week” from a recent pilgrimage to the Texas Panhandle. Each year I return to Vega, Texas for the Oldham County Roundup — world’s best barbecue, street […]

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I am having coffee on the balc, as I do every morning of course … a rich blend of coffee, Wi-Fi … and some good tunes on my Flaming Lips Pandora channel.  (I get frustrated when Pandora plays some Beck song or The Smashing Pumpkins … you know … some song I just hate … […]

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There is this meeting that I go to every Sunday, now going on 24 years. It’s a good group and has grown exponentially … even has a great monthly magazine now. And in that magazine, the readers are asked to contribute interesting stories for the question of the month. Normally I just enjoy reading other […]

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I won’t lie. I am still upset in my stomach. I might have thrown up in the back of my mouth just a tiny bit (as the original PingWi-Fi PingWare shirt on this site proudly states … LOL). I so-oooo dodged a bullet on July the Fourth. Walking down the street in sunny Delray Beach, […]

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It truly is a wonderful day.  You probably know it is Juneteenth in Texas.  And across the States, dating back to 1910 in Seattle, we celebrate Father’s Day today.  Happy Father’s Day, by the way!  My day started with best wishes from a young German student over in The Fatherland.  If you read this blog, […]

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What was it one of my old coaches used to say? Oh yes, “I ain’t superstitious. I’m just not taking any chances.” So each week on gameday we were all required to repeat various random things from the previous week, provided our team had won. One year, I accidentally wore the other team’s colors on […]

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I had a good chat with a travel writer on Facebook the other day, and she commented that I must meet some interesting people. Well yes I do … but I should point out that she covers all of the backroads of The Texas Plains Trail … I bet she has some keepers too. Anywho […]

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I don’t know if I will ever get this metric system here in New Zealand. I mean some things are pretty easy, like a 13mm wrench is darn near a half-inch wrench as we use in the U.S. Of course we use metric wrenches too … But it is the whole kilometers per hour thing […]

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This blog has detailed some pretty uncomfortable situations and nasty assignments in the ongoing stories about “The Dirty Gig” — my side job in the disaster recovery industry. Today was different. But first yesterday … It was somewhat like a throwback to my roots. I was operating a fairly large piece of equipment, called a […]

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