The Blog of “J”

Once again, it’s time for another Presidential Election. And somehow the third with Trump. After blowing my prediction that Trump would lose in 2016, I stopped believing the polls and didn’t make a prediction in 2020, even though Biden was WAY up. Today, the polls are as close to 50/50 as they get, so it… Read more: Election Time, for the Last Time?

We are renting a house at Oak Island, North Carolina this week that was built on the grounds of what was the longest pier on the East Coast of the U.S. for a while, and was the longest pier in North Carolina until it was demolished for the final time, not by a hurricane but… Read more: The Longest Pier in North Carolina, and Golden Corral

In 2004, I bought Jimmy Buffett’s book “A Pirate Looks At 50.” You may recall it making an appearance here on my blog in 2006. It was a book about growing old and remembering your younger glory days. I never finished it, because I don’t have much time to read. Interestingly, it’s 20 years later,… Read more: A Pirate Looks At 50

Clearly, I’m no Johnny Cash. In fact, I’ve never traveled west of Wichita or Oklahoma City. But when Google announced that it was shutting down the web version of Google Location, I figured I should save some screenshots. I’ve used an Android Phone since 2011 and Google has been tracking my location since then. Here’s… Read more: I’ve been every-where, man (in the mid-Atlantic)

NOTE: This content is about weather and meteorology, similar to that contained in my WeatherMatrix Blog which ran from 2005-2022 on AccuWeather.com. On July 20th, 2023, while I was at Oak Island, North Carolina on vacation, an EF3 tornado caused severe damage near Rocky Mount, NC, through the town of Dortches. It caused significant damage… Read more: [WeatherMatrix] Ground Survey of Tornado Damage at Dortches, North Carolina