Category: Reflections

  • Side Notes by Esko: Gain Strength, Lift Your Scooter!

    Side Notes by Esko: Gain Strength, Lift Your Scooter!

    Gain strength, lift your scooter! I have been doing this for quite some time, and have gained muscle mass, strength and stability. If your scooter is light enough, you too can choose to put your own scooter into your vehicle instead of using a lifting device. We drive a large van, where the rearmost seat…

  • Side Notes by Esko: Confessions of a Photoloographer

    Side Notes by Esko: Confessions of a Photoloographer

    When Evie and I go places, there is a purpose to it, apart from just enjoying the going and the places. At least that is our goal: investigating how pleasant, easy, difficult or even risky going there is for users of mobility scooters. The way this works is pretty simple: Evie does the intellectual heavy…

  • Side Notes by Esko: Because One Needs Coffee

    Side Notes by Esko: Because One Needs Coffee

    Do you need help? One of the many things that make life interesting is trying to figure out the correct answer to that question. My standard reaction to the question would have been a mystified “huh” until the 28th of April 2021. What help? That morning I got up from bed and promptly fell to…

  • Side Notes by Esko: Otters, Spellcheck, and AI

    Side Notes by Esko: Otters, Spellcheck, and AI

    My trusted partner-in-scootering, Evie, has become a master in using artificial intelligence. She finds information about places to go to, about devices that might be of assistance for those of us who have specific mobility needs, and a bunch of other things that, before AI, required a lot of manual searching. Please note that I…