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2025 – Snow season and finding employment by spring.

2024 – December – Indieweb San Diego Dec 7-8th. Snow season starts and narrowing job application focus for 2025.

2024 – November – Los Angeles focus on general election and local government, e.g. la101.guide . Visits to City Council, LA Metro, County Board of Supervisors, Neighborhood Councils. First radio call sign KO6GTO.

2024 – October – Portland arts and central Nevada exploration. Discovery of Toiyabe Range and crest trail TCT. Professional development in python, mapping, and data toolsets like pandas, duckdb, open street maps.

2024 – September – Focus on upcoming FediForum and WordCamp USA through the end of the month. Specifically, I would enjoy discussing location sharing in ActivityPub and extending the WordPress ActivityPub plugin.

Notes at FediForum 2024 Location Sharing

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Studying for ham radio technician license.

Land lines and broadcast radio + television were my introduction to the electronic now. AM and FM radio remain a frequent choice.

Off grid I carry a Garmin inReach device with satellite sms and email services. It doesn’t work in dense trees or sufficiently obscured sky, maybe gps adjacent frequencies?