A place for honest thoughts, lived experience, and growth.

Welcome to Jason’s journal, with personal reflections and writing about autism, understanding, and everyday life.

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Latest from the journal

  • Cub scouts communications

    Tomorrow, my dad and I will be helping local cub scouts earn their Communications pin by demonstrating emergency communications using ham (amateur) radio.  I’ve got a ham radio that I’ve built into a metal case to make it portable, and my dad will be using it to show the cub scouts how to communicate after…

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  • High-altitude balloon project

    In late 2010, I decided I wanted to try the same thing I’d seen many times before online: launch a weather balloon, take high-altitude pictures, and retrieve those pictures.  With the help of Marc, I did just that one Saturday… The tracking devices used didn’t quite work as planned, but it was a success nonetheless. …

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  • New website, again…

    Hello, world, this is my new web site to play and post thoughts/ideas/conundrums, and just pretend that someone one day may read them.

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