{"id":1926,"date":"2015-09-28T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2015-09-28T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:01:22","slug":"back-from-camping-heading-out-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Back from Camping \/ Heading out Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got back from the Mount Rainier faerie Gatherette yesterday afternoon, and didn&#8217;t quite finish putting everything away from that outing. Doing so was on today&#8217;s agenda, as was planning the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>My new job starts with the new month on Thursday, so I have three more days of freedom. The idea of going to the Staircase area of Olympic National Park struck me. I&#8217;ve always wanted to go there, yet never have. And the more I&#8217;ve thought about it, the better the idea sounds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the things on the list for this summer was doing some ham radio stuff on the HF bands while camping. I&#8217;ve <em>finally<\/em> got my portable HF transmitting antenna working properly, after spending all summer on it as mostly a &#8220;back burner&#8221; item,<\/li>\n<li>As mentioned before, I&#8217;ve long wanted to see that area of the park. As in, for decades,<\/li>\n<li>The weather forecast for the next few days is warm and dry,<\/li>\n<li>I over-prepared for the past weekend&#8217;s camping, so I have leftover supplies begging to be used this season.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m really only in the mood for a quick, overnight trip, having just gotten back from a multi-night trip, and<\/li>\n<li>One night is all I really have, since I need today to tend to various things around the house, meaning tomorrow is the earliest I can leave, and I need to spend Wednesday night at home so I can show up at the office on Thursday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I call the above process, when I get an idea and the more it seems to dovetail nicely the more I think of it, &#8220;convergence.&#8221; It&#8217;s generally a sign I really should pursue it. So unless I think of unforeseen complications or such things unexpectedly come up, that is exactly what I plan to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got back from the Mount Rainier faerie Gatherette yesterday afternoon, and didn&#8217;t quite finish putting everything away from that outing. Doing so was on today&#8217;s agenda, as was planning the rest of the week. My new job starts with the new month on Thursday, so I have three more days of freedom. The idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}