Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social

After a few years of Mormon solicitation, I decided to sit down with a few of them and chat every couple of weeks. I enjoy our talks and they're not pushy. They have some wild beliefs and I learn about new ones every time we get together. It would be easy to mock them, but they are, from what I've seen, good and decent folks and make good neighbors. We have way more in common than the folks running the school boards. I'm not drinking the cool aid, but we're at war and allies aren't a bad thing.

Look familiar?

Benjamin Franklin's daily routine.

Worker bees and queen bees share identical DNA. Workers live a couple weeks, but queens live a couple years. The only difference between the two is how their genes are expressed and it's because of diet. Even if you have a lot of family history of disease, diet and lifestyle are huge and you can control those. Eat your veggies!

You folks remember the rotary un-smart phone? Justine Haupt is behind them and other cool projects and runs https://skysedge.com
Justine has been absolutely amazing with her persistence and transparency while trying to fulfill orders. I think she might actually be killing herself with the stress of increasing red tape etc. It is inspiring to see someone with so much integrity, but I worry for her.

Thinking about an ice house walk-in-fridge for the future house. We get such crazy cold swings here that it makes a lot of sense. Any ideas? Considering a bunch of Home Depot buckets full of water in a super insulated room. When it gets below freezing, blast outside air around the buckets.

Not a potato chip, not a potato wedge. Something in between and they’re great!

This is driving us nuts. There was some movie/series that featured ring-shaped storage/authentication devices. These were worn and we have this vague notion that the characters were trying to swipe/swap them. Can't remember what this was and any help would be appreciated.

Harvey and Connie Lapin have been parent-activists for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder for well over 40 years. My daughter Heidi most probably benefits from their years of hard work and determination. Many thanks to them and folks like them!
https://youtu.be/SlW2-GiYiwo
https://autismandactivism.com

Our friend Wendell is preaching for the first time this morning! Don’t know if he has the gift of preaching and teaching, but “we’re fixing to find out”.

Ok, just wrote with a pen, the kind that is like a quill that you dip in ink for the first time. It is fun to do.

Well, I ended up watching this whole thing...
https://youtu.be/R_lVdrHnbYo
Such a cool race and I probably wouldn't even know about it if it wasn't for the movie Race the Sun.

A heron at my folk’s house has switched from fish to chipmunk.

I enjoy watching Clarkson's Farm. He could have just retired and relaxed, but instead decided to jump into something brand new to him. It seems pretty obvious that he just wants to create something good and pleasing to himself and share the journey with others. I have a hard time understanding the haters' point of view. He employs a lot of people, raises environmental awareness, tries to make a profit, and makes it entertaining. Endless bureaucracy. I wish I could say the USA was better.

So I thought I might have a GPU problem, but it turns out that it was just a bad stick of RAM!
https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-PC4-28800-Memory-Black-CMW64GX4M2D3600C18/dp/B081BTFN1B