Let’s start with the term “technologically advanced rowboat.” I think that might sum up the point I’m trying to make. As cool as I may think all of this is, I still think the term and the idea sound pretty silly. The more I meditated on this yesterday, the idea of mixing old and new technologies […]
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Day 31: Dark Times
It was the beginning of another day on the JRH. By that, I mean it was the middle of a four-hour row shift and I felt on the verge of collapse in my seat while waiting to cry, fall off my seat, or slam my shin with the oar. It’s hard to tell when one […]
It’s hard to describe as sometimes a day feels like a week and a week feels like a day. Even though our days are strictly managed with a business calendar on smart phones, with alarms going off every hour, time still seems to evade us. I’m much more in touch with the cycles of the […]
It was an exciting morning had by all aboard the James Robert Hannsen today during a morning “work day.” I’ll let him tell the story himself, but the gist of it is that in the span of just 3 hours, we got 2 sets of good sparks from the wind turbine, blew out our power, got […]
I had just put in my ear plugs. These and a bandanna wrapped about my eyes have been the best way I can find sleep out here and I was feeling like this was going to be a good one. I sighed and settled into the constant roll of the boat that, although no longer […]