{"id":6118,"date":"2004-06-27T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/27\/fire-and-bikes\/"},"modified":"2004-06-27T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T18:24:05","slug":"fire-and-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/27\/fire-and-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>To say nothing of the nearly constant rain, we had a fine time camping at<br \/>\nWeston Bend State Park last night.&nbsp; Yeah&#8230;camping, I said.&nbsp; We jaunted up to the park late yesterday afternoon, hauling along a tent, a cooler, hot dogs, s&#8217;mores ingredients, bug spray and a foreboding sense that the clouds on the horizon really meant business.&nbsp; And they did, sprinkling overhead for<br \/>\nmost of the night.&nbsp; It was a basic outing to the campgrounds:&nbsp;<br \/>\nbicycling, burning stuff, and trying to lay low, thereby avoiding the contempt<br \/>\nof the grounds manager who, between sucks of oxygen from a respirator, was<br \/>\nstunningly rude.<\/p>\n<p>To put off more pressing work today, I cooked up little digimentary, a<br \/>\ndocu-dramatism depicting our stay.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not as long or as essayistic as I<br \/>\nwould like it to be, but I wanted to play around with the capture feature on my<br \/>\ncamera and see how challenging it would be to run it through my system into a<br \/>\nsampler combining music, stills and video.&nbsp; The mixing software is an old<br \/>\nversion of Sony Movieshaker&#8211;a standard install on this desktop.&nbsp; It<br \/>\nhandled everything with ease, but I wish the audio leveling had greater<br \/>\nprecision.&nbsp; Since I&#8217;m not in the market for any new software, it&#8217;ll have to<br \/>\ndo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/mt\/misc\/fandb.htm\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/tv.gif?resize=180%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A favorite camping memory:&nbsp; In the summers, my brother and<br \/>\nI would pitch tents in the yard, string extension cords to the tents, and<br \/>\nconvene long&#8211;even overnight&#8211;sessions of C64 video-gaming (of course we set up<br \/>\nthe computer in tent).&nbsp; It was a kind of portable bedroom wired to the<br \/>\nhouse; our two large outdoor dogs could come and go as they pleased while we<br \/>\nfought through The Bard&#8217;s Tale and Archon.&nbsp; One of those summers, J. slept<br \/>\noutdoors for a month straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>To say nothing of the nearly constant rain, we had a fine time camping at Weston Bend State Park last night.&nbsp; Yeah&#8230;camping, I said.&nbsp; We jaunted up to the park late yesterday afternoon, hauling along a tent, a cooler, hot dogs, s&#8217;mores ingredients, bug spray and a foreboding sense that the clouds on the horizon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media_massage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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