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About me#

Hi, I’m Blaine. I enjoy reading, building software, hiking, making music, and playing games.

My wife and I, along with our two wonderful dogs, Willow and Piper, live in Salem, VA, USA in the beautiful Roanoke Valley of the Appalachian Mountains. I work remotely as a software engineer.

I’m a progressive democrat and secular humanist. I spend my freetime working for progressive change in local government.

About this site#

Here you’ll find posts about my several hobbies, new projects I’m working on, political and business ramblings, and random stuff I enjoy.

Latest post#

Things have memory

February 27, 2025
Hobbies
Microcassette

Relics of an interesting person #

What a find! It’s tapes like this that really make me happy to do this. All of these wonderful little relics, memories long forgotten, telling the story of a person.

A microcassette sitting on a desk

Side one starts out with a dictation where we learn quite a lot about this person.

  • Recorded on Friday March 14th
  • That day she went for a Harley ride with her neighbor, Jim Wagner
  • She and Jim went to a place called Ozark to get BBQ
  • Ozark was closed, so they went to JR Pawn Shop where she found something special that used to belong to her

So far I haven’t been able to find where Ozark or JR Pawn Shop were located. Maybe Birmingham Alabama, but I’m yet to find any conclusive evidence.

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